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LSU women's basketball falls to South Carolina – Game Highlights
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- LSU women's basketball falls to South Carolina – Game Highlights
BATON ROUGE — Flau'jae Johnson tried.
The LSU women's basketball star guard took over the game against South Carolina in spurts on a few occasions. The senior put up 21 points and willed the Tigers back into the game in the fourth quarter.
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But as the game twisted and turned in the later stages, the shots LSU made in the first half refused the fall. And the free-throw line jumped up to bite LSU as Johnson missed three of her final four foul attempts, including two straight with 45 seconds left that would've given LSU the lead.
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The Tigers trailed by as many as eight in the second half. They chipped it to one three times, but they couldn't get over the hump as No. 3-ranked South Carolina escaped No. 6 LSU and the Pete Maravich Assembly Center again with a 79-72 victory Saturday, Feb. 14.
Thanks to Tessa Johnson, who LSU (22-4, 8-4 SEC) struggled to find an answer for, South Carolina was able to find enough on the offensive end to routinely build five-, six-, seven-point leads. Tessa Johnson finished the game with 21 points.
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LSU won the rebounding battle but the 29.3% shooting percentage in the second half was too much to overcome against South Carolina (25-2, 11-1).
This is the second game against a top-5 team that the Tigers have dropped and they remain outside the top four in the SEC standings.
