Angel Reese cuts down the net under in the Final Four confetti after LSU’s Elite Eight win over Miami on Maat Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, SC.Alexis Morris and Mulkey’s grandchildren bathe in the Final Four confetti after LSU’s Elite Eight win over Miami on Maat Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, SC.And in Waco still remains her grandchildren, a home she owns, and her life from those 21 years.Īnd although returning to Texas will be a homecoming of sorts for Mulkey, it will also be a true homecoming for Texas-native players Alexis Morris, Sa’Myah Smith, Alisa Williams and Amani Bartlett. Just an hour and a half away from American Airlines Center, where the Tigers will tip off in the Final Four, is Waco, Texas, where Mulkey coached Baylor to three National Championships, most recently in 2019. “It will hit me tonight when we’re on that plane going back to Baton Rouge, and I’m sitting with my feet propped up tomorrow eating crawfish and go, ‘I get to go back again to the state of Texas,’” Mulkey said Sunday, after LSU’s first Elite Eight win since 2008. Now, after just two seasons back in her home state, Mulkey has turned this program into a Final Four competitor now bound for a less obvious homecoming.

In 2021, the three-time National Championship coach and Louisiana native returned to the land of Tigers and crawfish to lead a program just a forty-minute drive from her mother’s home. For LSU head coach Kim Mulkey, coming to LSU was an obvious homecoming.

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