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LSU women's basketball tripped up at Alabama in overtime
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Aaliyah Nye had torched LSU women's basketball all night.
Alabama's top scorer put up 29 points on 9-of-12 shooting, including 3 of 4 from the 3-point arc and her presence on the offensive end opened up plenty for the rest of her teammates. Off a long rebound with 3:26 remaining in the game, Nye and LSU's Mjracle Sheppard raced for the ball. Nye ran through Sheppard, picking up her fifth and final foul.
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The Tigers battled to force overtime, tying the game at 79 after scoring 7 of the last 11 points in regulation. But with Flau'jae Johnson and Mikaylah Williams battling foul trouble all night and turnovers at ill-advised times that killed momentum swings, LSU couldn't complete the comeback, falling 88-85 to Alabama in overtime Thursday night.
Williams had a good look at a game-tying 3 as time expired but the ball careened off the rim. The loss marks the first time LSU (27-3, 12-3 SEC) has fallen to the Tide (19-9, 10-5) in the past five games.
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With a jumper late in the third quarter, LSU sophomore sensation Mikaylah Williams surpassed 1,000 career points, a mark she passed in her 64th game as a Tiger.
She entered the game at Alabama needing 12 points to reach 1,000 career points.
Williams scored a team-high 22 points on 8-of-17 shooting with four rebounds.
Alabama asserts itself in paint against LSU women's basketball
Of the 23 points the Tide scored in the second quarter, 16 came inside the lane.
LSU had no answer for Alabama's backdoor cuts and pick-and-roll game that led to dump down passes to either Essence Cody or Sarah Ashlee Barker. The Crimson Tide built their big early lead off scoring in the paint and how well it shot the ball from the perimeter provided them enough space to work the ball inside.
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Alabama collected 44 paint points, outscoring LSU's 40 inside.
LSU women's basketball can't get anything established on offensive glass at Alabama
With Morrow alone, LSU night-in and night-out is going to be a force on the boards to earn second-chance looks. Alabama was determined to limit those chances for the Tigers.
Despite LSU coming into the game as the top offensive rebounding team in the SEC, the Crimson Tide's approach to swarming the ball when Morrow got touches inside and the commitment to crash the boards worked.
All game long, the Tigers had trouble countering and injecting themselves in that aspect of the game. LSU mustered just one offensive rebound in the first half and ended up with 10, eight shy of its average. Alabama outrebounded LSU for the game 43-37.
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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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