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Nickname. LSU's men's and women's sports teams are called the Fighting Tigers, Tigers or Lady Tigers.. During its first three sports seasons, LSU played without a nickname. For the inaugural LSU–Tulane football game in 1893, the New Orleans newspapers referred to the LSU football team as the Baton Rouge "boys", but that was not an official nickname.
The Louisiana State University official team nickname is the Fighting Tigers, Tigers or Lady Tigers. [3] At one time, the "Lady Tigers" nickname was used only in sports that have teams for both men and women—specifically basketball, cross country, golf, swimming and diving, tennis, and track and field (indoor and outdoor); however, since 2017, only women's basketball, cross country, and ...
The LSU Tigers women's basketball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I women's college basketball. The head coach is Kim Mulkey, the former head coach at Baylor University, who was hired on April 25, 2021 to replace Nikki Fargas, who had been head coach since the 2011–2012 season. The team plays its home games in the ...
Everybody wants a piece of the Tigers, who are preseason ranked No. 1 for the first time. They tip-off the 2023-24 season against Colorado in the Hall of Fame Classic Monday night (6:30 p.m., TNT).
In 2006, LSU celebrated its 75th year of playing night football in Tiger Stadium. LSU has played the majority of its games at night and the Tigers have fared much better under the lights than during the day. Since 1960, LSU is 201–59–3 (.773) at night in Tiger Stadium compared to a 21–22–3 (.488) record during the day over that span. [7]
Kim Mulkey. Kimberly Duane Mulkey (born May 17, 1962) [ 1 ] is an American college basketball coach and former player. Since 2021, she has been the head coach for Louisiana State University 's women's basketball team. A Pan-American gold medalist in 1983 and Olympic gold medalist in 1984, she is the first coach in NCAA basketball history to win ...
1981, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024. The LSU Tigers women's gymnastics team [ n 1] represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I women's gymnastics. [ 4] The team competes in the Southeastern Conference and is currently coached by Jay Clark, who is coaching in his fifth season. The Pete Maravich Assembly Center serves as the home arena for ...
Mike the Tiger. Mike the Tiger is the mascot of Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and serves as the graphic image of LSU sports. Mike is the name of both the live and costumed mascots. By tradition the tiger is a live Bengal tiger, although the current mascot and his two immediate predecessors are mixed-breeds.