DALLAS — Alexis Morris took a modern route to the national championship game: from Baylor to Rutgers to Texas A&M to LSU and then through Virginia Tech’s defense. It was a long journey for a player who gets from Point A to Point B so quickly, but it will end where she expected to be in the beginning: playing to win a title with Kim Mulkey.
LSU has gone deeper into the NCAA tournament than ever before, making this achievement both unprecedented and entirely predictable. This is why the school hired Mulkey from Baylor two springs ago. She won three national titles at Baylor. Her last 11 teams there finished in the top 10. This kind of run was going to happen. But Mulkey can’t quite believe it happened so fast.
“We’re playing for a national championship, guys, and I just got there,” she said. “Never ever do you think you’re gonna do something like this in two years.”
