BATON ROUGE – LSU will host Stanford in the PMAC on Thursday, December 5 for the 2024 SEC/ACC Challenge, announced Wednesday on the SEC Network.
This is the second year of the SEC/ACC Challenge. LSU hosted Virginia Tech last season as Coach Kim Mulkey earned her 700 career victory, becoming the fasted coach in college basketball history to reach that milestone. The TV announcement and game time will be released on a later date.
LSU returns 2024 SEC Freshman of Year Mikaylah Williams, 2024 First Team All-SEC Aneesah Morrow, 2024 Second Team All-SEC Flau’Jae Johnson, 2024 SEC All-Freshman Aalyah Del Rosario, 2023 SEC All-Freshman Sa’Myah Smith, Last-Tear Poa, Amani Bartlett and Izzy Besselman. Smith will be back on the floor after missing the majority of the 2023-24 season with a knee injury. Johnson, Smith and Poa were all key pieces on LSU’s 2023 National Championship roster.
The Tigers hit the transfer portal to add forward Jersey Wolfenbarger and guards Shayeann Day-Wilson, Kailyn Gilbert and Mjracle Sheppard. LSU’s lone freshman will be Louisiana Gatorade Player of the Year Jada Richard from Lafayette Christian Academy.
Stanford will be led by first-year head coach Kate Paye as the Cardinal enters its first season in the ACC after Tara VanDerveer retired following last season. Paye, who has been at Stanford for 17 years as an assistant then associate head coach, played on Stanford’s 1992 team that won the national championship and was the associate head coach on Stanford’s 2021 national championship team.
With Paye as the head coach and Cameron Brink off to the WNBA, it will be a different look for Stanford this year. Stanford also lost Kiki Iriafen to the transfer portal. The Cardinal have three freshmen and two transfers, including 2024 Big Ten Media Freshman of the Year Mary Ashey Stevenson from Purdue, to go with a group of nine returners. Of those returners, Talana Lepolo was selected All-Pac-12 honorable mention last season, while Nunu Agara and Courtney Ogden received Pac-12 All-Freshman honorable mention accolades.
2024 SEC/ACC Challenge Schedule:
Wednesday, December 4
Florida State at Tennessee
Mississippi State at Georgia Tech
Oklahoma at Louisville
Vanderbilt at Miami
Syracuse at Texas A&M
Virginia Tech at Georgia
Thursday, December 5
Boston College at Arkansas
Alabama at Cal
Florida at Clemson
Duke at South Carolina
Kentucky at North Carolina
Ole Miss at NC State
Texas at Notre Dame
SMU at Missouri
Stanford at LSU
Auburn at Virginia
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