{"id":511128,"date":"2026-01-02T04:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/511128\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:40:12","slug":"kentucky-womens-basketball-upsets-lsu-on-last-second-3-pointer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/511128\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky women&#8217;s basketball upsets LSU on last second 3-pointer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/87657934007-usatsi-27764853.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Geno Auriemma discusses legacy of Sue Bird as jersey retired by UConn<\/p>\n<p>Geno Auriemma reflects on the career and legacy of Sue Bird as UConn honors her by sending her jersey to the rafters.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Pulse<\/p>\n<p>Guard Tonie Morgan hit the winning 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds remaining to lift the No. 12-ranked Kentucky women&#8217;s basketball team over No. 5 LSU, 80-78, at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rogue, Louisiana, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first loss for the Tigers (14-1, 0-1 SEC), who set an NCAA record earlier this season by scoring 100-plus points in eight consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan led the Wildcats (14-1, 1-0 SEC) with 24 points, including three 3-pointers. She added 12 assists for her third double-double of the season. Teonni Key added 17 points and 16 rebounds for a double-double of her own. Clara Strack had 15 points and nine rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky had 17 offensive rebounds and 18 second-chance points, compared to four for LSU.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers led 75-69 with 5:03 to go in the game. They failed to score a field goal the rest of the way. Mikaylah Williams scored 26 points to lead four players in double figures for LSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geno Auriemma discusses legacy of Sue Bird as jersey retired by UConn Geno Auriemma reflects on the career&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,71481,25059,319,217,325,777,12039,234,53652,10224,3808,10230,10874,231,772,1060,1544,62,67,61,81,134,132,71482,1116,39529,13435,1054,66,83,17,1045,2196,235,3736,465],"class_list":["post-511128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-baton","tag-baton-rouge","tag-college","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-conference","tag-hub","tag-kentucky","tag-kentucky-wildcats-womens-basketball","tag-lady","tag-louisiana","tag-louisiana-state-lady-tigers-womens-basketball","tag-louisiana-state-university","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-southeastern-conference","tag-ncaab","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-rouge","tag-sec","tag-sec-conference-womens-basketball","tag-sec-hub","tag-southeastern","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-state","tag-tigers","tag-university","tag-wildcats","tag-womens","tag-womens-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}