On Friday, MiLaysia Fulwiley introduced on her Instagram that she is going to play for the LSU Tigers.
She spent the primary two seasons of her collegiate profession taking part in beneath Daybreak Staley and the South Carolina Gamecocks and was part of the 2024 Nationwide Championship crew.
MiLaysia Fulwiley has signed with the LSU Tigers! pic.twitter.com/ByjxnHD84t
— LSU Girls’s Basketball (@LSUwbkb) April 25, 2025
Fulwiley mentioned on her Instagram publish, „Geaux Tigers,“ whereas saying her dedication to play for head coach Kim Mulkey and LSU.
In her first two years with the Gamecocks, Fulwiley averaged 11.8 factors, 2.9 rebounds, 2.1 assists, and 1.6 steals per sport, capturing 43.1 % from the sector and performed in 76 video games and began three.
Fulwiley can have the possibility to boost her resume and change into a starter with LSU.
Flau’Jae Johnson Introduced Return to LSU
Annie Costabile of Entrance Workplace Sports activities first reported that guard Flau’Jae Johnson will return to play for the Tigers for her senior season after experiences of a „main announcement“ hypothesis on her social media.
„Sure, I’m coming again to LSU,“ Johnson mentioned to Costabile Wednesday. „I undoubtedly need to win, however I need to be sure that I’m being developed to be the participant that I need to be within the WNBA.“
Johnson additionally posted a three-word tweet upon studying about Fulwiley’s announcement to play for the Tigers, „With the butter.“ Mulkey was additionally enthusiastic about touchdown Fulwiley by the switch portal on X, previously generally known as Twitter.
All through the final season, Johnson appeared in 34 video games for the Tigers, averaging 18.6 factors, 5.6 rebounds and a pair of.5 assists whereas capturing 46.8 % from the sector. She was additionally named to the All-SEC First Workforce this previous season.
With the butter🫡💛💜
— Flaujae 4️⃣ (@Flaujae) April 25, 2025
LSU entered the NCAA Girls’s Event because the third seed within the Spokane 1 Regional and fell to the No. 1 UCLA Bruins within the Elite Eight. With the return of guards Johnson and Mikaylah Williams and the addition of guard Fulwiley, the Tigers will look to make one other run to the Girls’s Closing 4 in 2025-26.
Since Mulkey took over the LSU Tigers ladies’s basketball program in 2021, she has led the crew to its first Nationwide Championship in program historical past in 2023. The crew has made 4 consecutive appearances within the NCAA Event, together with three journeys to the Elite Eight.
Mulkey is starting her fifth season as the pinnacle coach of the Tigers, following 21 profitable seasons with the Baylor Woman Bears. Throughout her tenure at Baylor, she led the crew to a few Nationwide Championships, setting a excessive commonplace for the ladies’s basketball program in Waco by creating standout gamers like Brittney Griner and Odyssey Sims.
The trio of Fulwiley, Johnson, and Williams within the Tigers‘ backcourt is a trio followers will watch intently throughout the 2025-26 ladies’s faculty basketball season.
