LSU survives second-round March Madness scare just a day after Kim Mulkey threatened to sue the Washington Post

The LSU women’s basketball team survived its March Madness scare in the second round just a day after head coach Kim Mulkey threatened to sue the Washington Post for a “hit piece” in an unbelievable rant.

Lady Tigers star Angel Reese showed up again to bail her teammates out of trouble after they trailed 36-32 at halftime against Middle Tennessee, as she put together a double-double performance (20 points and 11 rebounds) . The final score was 83-56 in favor of LSU.

On Saturday, Mulkey lashed out at the “sleazy tactics of the media” after it was rumored that the Post would publish a story about her just a year after she led LSU to win the NCAA women’s tournament, though it’s unclear what the article is . would be approximately.

“What an effort he went to to put together a success piece,” Mulkey said of award-winning Post reporter Kent Babb, whom she did not mention by name. “After two years of trying to get me to sit down with him for an interview, he contacted LSU on Tuesday as we were getting ready for the first round of this tournament with more than a dozen questions, and demanded an answer on Thursday, However? before we get a tip. Are you joking?

“This was a ridiculous deadline that LSU and I couldn’t possibly meet, and the reporter knew it,” Mulkey continued. ‘It was just an attempt to stop me from commentating and an attempt to distract us from this tournament. It’s not gonna work, buddy.’

LSU head coach Kim Mulkey during Sunday’s second-round game, a day after her public tirade

The 61-year-old LSU head coach lashed out at the Washington Post’s “sleazy tactics” after a profile piece about her was rumored to be published this week

Babb confirmed to several media outlets, including The Associated Press, that he is working on a profile of Mulkey, but declined further comment. The Post declined to disclose the nature of Babb’s work.

Babb has worked for The Washington Post for fourteen years. His feature films have been named the best in the country three times by The Associated Press Sports Editors. Babb has also written two books: “Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City” and “Not A Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson.”

Mulkey is in her third season at LSU, where she signed a 10-year, $36 million contract extension after winning her fourth national title as coach last season. She also won three with Baylor, two as a player at Louisiana Tech and a gold medal as a player for Team USA in the 1984 Olympics.

Mulkey said she told Babb two years ago that she would not be interviewed by him because she “didn’t like the hit song he wrote about Brian Kelly,” the current LSU and former Notre Dame football coach.

“I am fed up, and I will not let The Washington Post attack this university, this amazing team of young women that I have, or me without a fight,” Mulkey added. “I have hired the best defamation law firm in the country and I will sue The Washington Post if they publish a false story about me.

“Not many people are in a position to hold these types of journalists accountable, but I am, and I will,” Mulkey said.

Mulkey, 61, accused the Post’s Kent Babb of trying to trick former assistant coaches into talking to him, despite not mentioning the journalist once in her long, angry monologue, Saturday

Mulkey accused Babb of trying to trick her former assistant coaches into talking to him by giving them the false impression that Mulkey had agreed to an interview.

“When my former coaches talked to him and found out I wasn’t talking to the reporter, they were just distraught and felt completely misled,” Mulkey said.

Mulkey added that former players have told her that the Post “has contacted them and offered to leave them anonymous in a story if they say negative things about me.”

“The Washington Post has called on former disgruntled players to include negative quotes in their story,” Mulkey said. ‘They ignore the more than forty years of positive stories.

“But you know, reporters who give a megaphone to a one-sided, embellished version of the case are not trying to tell the truth. They’re trying to sell newspapers and feed the click machine,” Mukley continued.

‘This is exactly why people no longer trust journalists and the media. It’s these kinds of dirty tactics and hatchet jobs that people are just fed up with.’