{"id":5552,"date":"2024-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/march-madness-mulkey-lsu-4fe14920805aea78c968017469e8d372\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T00:00:00","slug":"march-madness-mulkey-lsu-4fe14920805aea78c968017469e8d372","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/march-madness-mulkey-lsu-4fe14920805aea78c968017469e8d372\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Mulkey says she likely won't read her Post profile, defends LSU team against media portrayals"},"content":{"rendered":"
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 LSU coach Kim Mulkey said Saturday she probably won\u2019t read the newspaper article over which she has threatened to file a defamation lawsuit, but she did question the timing of its release.<\/p>\n
Mulkey was the subject of a profile published Saturday in The Washington Post<\/a> in which family members and former players are quoted about her personality and how she runs her basketball program.<\/p>\n Her father and sister are quoted as saying they have not talked to Mulkey in years while others suggest Mulkey was uncomfortable at best with the LGTBQ+ community, including some of her own players.<\/p>\n Days before the story was published, Mulkey had threatened to sue the newspaper for what she said would be a \u201chit piece.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead, it was a wide-ranging profile that examined both positive and negative aspects of her life.<\/p>\n After her team beat UCLA 78-69<\/a> on Saturday, she responded with false surprise when a reporter told her the article had come out an hour before the game started. (She had been asked about it on ESPN before tipoff.)<\/p>\n \u201cImagine that,\u201d she said. \u201cMust have thought y\u2019all would look at it, get some clicks or be a distraction. No, ma\u2019am, I haven\u2019t read it and I probably won\u2019t read it. I probably will have my attorneys communicate with me to see if there\u2019s anything in there that we need to be concerned about.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE<\/p>\n Angel Reese records her 26th double-double of the season as LSU advances beating UCLA 78-69<\/a><\/p>\n Paige Bueckers leads UConn women into 28th Elite Eight as Huskies hold off Duke 53-45<\/a><\/p>\n JuJu Watkins scores 30, powers Southern California past Baylor 74-70 for spot in Elite Eight<\/a><\/p>\n The profile comes during a season when LSU opened the defense of its national title with a surprising loss to Colorado and a holiday tournament in which star Angel Reese didn\u2019t play because of unspecified \u201clocker-room issues\u201d that Mulkey declined to divulge<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Reese made some general references to her mental health and not wanting her behavior to be detrimental to the team.<\/p>\n The Tigers bounced back to have a solid season, losing in the Southeastern Conference Tournament final to South Carolina<\/a>. They entered the NCAA Tournament<\/a> as a No. 3 seed and are trying to become the first back-to-back champions since UConn won its fourth straight in 2016. LSU will play Caitlin Clark and top-seeded Iowa<\/a> on Monday in a rematch of last year\u2019s national title game.<\/p>\n While declining to speak about The Post\u2019s article, Mulkey did defend her players against how they have been portrayed in the media, referring to a column published Friday by the Los Angeles Times<\/a> in which they were called \u201cvillains\u201d and \u201cdirty debutantes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow dare people attack kids like that?\u201d she said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to like the way we play. You don\u2019t have to like the way we trash talk. You don\u2019t have to like any of that. We\u2019re good with that. But I can\u2019t sit up here as a mother and a grandmother and a leader of young people and allow somebody to say that.\u201d<\/p>\n Her players praised Mulkey for letting them be themselves on and off the court, with Reese labeling herself and her teammates as \u201cgood villains\u201d who are changing the game and supporting each other.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re worried about,\u201d she said. \u201cJust being able to have teammates that have my back, have teammates, have coaches just have each other\u2019s back this whole time \u2014 I don\u2019t care what the outside thinks. I know what\u2019s going on in that locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n AP Basketball Writer Doug Feinberg contributed to this report.<\/p>\n AP March Madness bracket: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ncaa-womens-bracket\/<\/a> and coverage: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/march-madness<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) \u2014 LSU coach Kim Mulkey said Saturday she probably won\u2019t read the newspaper article over which she has threatened to file a defamation lawsuit, but she did question the timing of its release. Mulkey was the subject of a profile published Saturday in The Washington Post in which family members and former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[223,1967,262,263,248,2749,1986,251],"yoast_head":"\n
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