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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) – Louisiana State coach Sue Gunter
figured Arizona State would be spirited for its first NCAA
Tournament game since 1992.
So the Lady Tigers employed a full-court press and wore them
down.
Ke-Ke Tardy scored 21 points and Marie Ferdinand added 19 points
as Louisiana State beat Arizona State 83-66 Friday in the first
round of the Mideast Regional.
The Lady Tigers (20-10) pressed most of the game and forced 18
turnovers. Three Lady Tigers had at least two steals, led by
DeTrina White with four.
"I thought we played great on the defensive end of the floor,"
LSU coach Sue Gunter said. "If you press long enough, it wears on
you mentally."
Sixth-seeded LSU trailed early against the No. 11 Sun Devils
before going on a 17-8 run that gave them a lead they would not
relinquish.
LSU will next play the Purdue, which beat Santa Barbara Friday night.
Arizona State (20-11) went on a 6-0 run to get the score to
50-42 with 15:28 left. The Lady Tigers pushed the lead back to
double-digits and took a 13-point lead after a 3-pointer by Doneeka
Hodges. They led by as many as 20 points.
"I thought we executed very well and our shot selection was
very good," Gunter said.
Melody Johnson scored 25 points for Arizona State. She was
8-of-13 from the floor and 9-of-13 from the line.
Tardy and Ferdinand each scored 10 points in the first half as
the Lady Tigers shot 64 percent from the floor. They finished a
combined 14-for-23.
"If I were to judge my performance based on warmups, I would
have had a poor-shooting game," Tardy said. "I had a couple of
early layups and that got me going."
Kisha James scored 13 points for LSU, and April Brown and De
Trina White each had 10.
Arizona State coach Charli Turner Thorne, who gave birth to a
boy only five days ago, said the LSU's experience edge was too much
for her team.
"We played like a team that had not been here in this situation
before," she said. "We didn't even come close to playing our best
basketball. Normally, we're much more aggressive. We got away from
that at times."
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