On Friday, MiLaysia Fulwiley introduced on her Instagram that she’s going to play for the LSU Tigers.
She spent the primary two seasons of her collegiate profession enjoying 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 stated on her Instagram put up, “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 recreation, taking pictures 43.1 p.c from the sphere and performed in 76 video games and began three.
Fulwiley could have the possibility to boost her resume and grow to be 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 stories of a “main announcement” hypothesis on her social media.
“Sure, I’m coming again to LSU,” Johnson stated to Costabile Wednesday. “I undoubtedly need to win, however I need to ensure 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 often called Twitter.
All through the final season, Johnson appeared in 34 video games for the Tigers, averaging 18.6 factors, 5.6 rebounds and a couple of.5 assists whereas taking pictures 46.8 p.c from the sphere. She was additionally named to the All-SEC First Group this previous season.
With the butter
— Flaujae(@Flaujae) April 25, 2025
LSU entered the NCAA Girls’s Match 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 girls’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 Match, 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 Girl 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 carefully in the course of the 2025-26 girls’s faculty basketball season.
