MEDIA DAY -- THE LADY TIGER WAY

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THOUGHTS FROM COACH CHANCELLOR:
“We’re pumped up about the season. We were very young last season. We’re still pretty young. We have 14 players and seven of them are freshmen or sophomores, so that still makes us a young basketball team. But we work hard, and we’ve had one of the best fall (workouts) I’ve ever been around. We have a team that has a great attitude. They’re working towards their goals and aspirations, and when you have a team that’s fun to coach it’s a joy just to be around them.

“We are returning a great player in Allison Hightower, a player that’s gotten so much better since last spring. We met with each player we had and asked them to improve. We would write down certain things and say to them, ‘Here’s what you need to do,’ and one of those things was, ‘Allison, you’ve got to become a better three-point shooter.’ She has had an outstanding fall. She’s been the hardest worker in the weight room, in conditioning, and in basketball. When your best player is your hardest worker, that gives you a shot to win.

“I think that LaSondra Barrett will have a great year. At this point in time, I think our strength will be that if you take out Hightower, I think there’s about eight or nine more players that are pretty even. If you asked me where you think we’re going to go this year, here’s my own personal opinion: In the league, we’re one of four or five teams at the top. There’s Tennessee, us, Georgia, Mississippi State, and I look for South Carolina to be the most improved team in the league. With that in mind, I think we will be in that mix. I don’t know where we would be, but it will depend upon finding a third scorer. I think we’ll be another great defensive team. We’ve been in the top five or six in the nation forever and we’ve been No. 1 in the SEC for five years in a row (defensively). We don’t give up a lot of points here at LSU. But if we’re going to compete and be at the top of the league, in my mind we need to find a third scorer, someone who can take the pressure off of Barrett and Hightower from last year.

Posted by Bill Martin