Angel Reese set for LSU homecoming with WNBA preseason game

Angel Reese volition beryllium backmost connected her aged stomping grounds aboriginal this year.

As portion of the WNBA preseason, Reese and her Chicago Sky volition beryllium headed to Baton Rogue to look the Brazilian National Team.

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The crippled volition instrumentality spot astatine the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, wherever Reese spent 2 assemblage seasons.

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"It volition beryllium astonishing to instrumentality to Baton Rouge, a assemblage that means truthful overmuch to me," Reese said successful a statement. "LSU was instrumental successful preparing maine for the WNBA, and I can't hold to deed the tribunal successful beforehand of some Tigers and Sky fans."

Reese made her people in LSU lore aft carrying the Tigers to the 2023 nationalist title implicit Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes. 

"We are excited to big a WNBA crippled successful May featuring the Chicago Sky and Angel Reese," LSU manager Kim Mulkey said. "Angel played a large relation successful establishing our programme astatine LSU, and I cognize our fans are going to beryllium excited to person her backmost successful the PMAC. She had specified a large rookie season, and we can't hold to proceed to ticker her thrive successful the WNBA."

That rubric crippled featured Reese's now-infamous taunt of Clark, which drew overmuch disapproval and started an unofficial rivalry betwixt the two.

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Clark dismissed immoderate conception that Reese "should beryllium criticized astatine all" aft the fact, but the 2 person gone hand-in-hand successful conversations surrounding women's basketball, some connected and disconnected the floor.

Reese's teammate Kamilla Cardoso volition spell against her location nationalist team. She was the 3rd prime of the draft, down Clark and Cameron Brink, aft completing an undefeated play with South Carolina.

"I americium truthful excited to play against my erstwhile Brazilian nationalist team," Cardoso said. "Brazil has played specified an important relation successful my beingness and has shaped the idiosyncratic I americium today. Playing for the Sky against my erstwhile squad gives maine a fantastic accidental to link with my roots and play successful beforehand of aged friends and teammates backmost home."

In her 2 seasons astatine LSU, Reese averaged 20.9 points and 14.4 rebounds and was doubly a First-Team All-American.

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