BATON ROUGE — Kim Mulkey and her staff have done it again.
LSU women's basketball makes the biggest splash of the offseason once more, this time landing highly sought after South Carolina junior guard MiLaysia Fulwiley out of the transfer portal .
Fulwiley entered the portal a couple of weeks ago after two seasons at her hometown school where she won a NCAA championship with Dawn Staley and the Gamecocks her freshman season in 2023-24 and played for another title this past season.
Despite being one of the biggest names in women's basketball since she showed up on the scene, Fulwiley has never been a full-time starter in her collegiate career, having only started three games at South Carolina and averaging just over 18 minutes per game.
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Fulwiley posted 11.7 points per game in both of her seasons in Columbia along with 2.1 assists and 2.9 rebounds.
LSU needs a point guard and that's exactly where Fulwiley fits in with this upcoming season's roster in Baton Rouge.
Questions have circulated about how LSU was going to keep three ball-dominate players in stars Flau'jae Johnson and Mikaylah Williams , now paired with Fulwiley, all content. As flashy as Fulwiley is with her ability to finish at the rim and her knack to knock down the big outside shot, plenty of her highlights are of her mind-boggling passes she's made to teammates.
Turnovers have been an issue for Fulwiley with the Gamecocks the past two seasons and that's the part of her game she'll need to clean as she moves into a starter role for the first time.
But she's played on the biggest stage multiple times, which LSU will only have Johnson on the team that has played on that level. In 12 NCAA tournament games, Fulwiley averaged 10.8 points and has scored nine points in each of the two national championship games she's played in.
For LSU, landing Fulwiley gives them the best transfer portal class in the country for the second time in three seasons. And it fills the biggest need remaining on Mulkey's team heading into next season after bringing in Notre Dame forward transfer Kate Koval and East Carolina forward Amiya Joyner.
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Cory Diaz covers the LSU Tigers for The Daily Advertiser as part of the USA TODAY Network. Follow his Tigers coverage on Twitter: @ByCoryDiaz. Got questions regarding LSU athletics? Send them to Cory Diaz at bdiaz@gannett.com .
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