Poole now not a part of LSU’s staff, Mulkey says

Kateri Poole is now not part of the LSU ladies’s basketball staff, in line with coach Kim Mulkey.

The 5-foot-8 junior guard appeared in 4 video games this season for the No. 7 Tigers. She didn’t play on Nov. 14 in opposition to Kent State on account of a “coach’s resolution,” noticed the ground for a mere 5 minutes the subsequent recreation in opposition to Southeastern Louisiana, and was final on the bench with LSU in opposition to Texas Southern, although she didn’t take the ground that day.

“She’s now not with us,” Mulkey informed reporters Sunday after the Tigers’ 83-53 win over Louisiana. Mulkey wouldn’t touch upon whether or not Poole’s departure was a dismissal or mutual parting of the way.

LSU star ahead Angel Reese, the Most Excellent Participant of the 2023 ladies’s NCAA event, additionally missed 4 video games in November for undisclosed causes, returning Nov. 30 in opposition to Virginia Tech. Mulkey has gone so far as to say the staff was coping with “locker room points.”

Poole, who began for the Tigers throughout their nationwide championship run final season, started her faculty profession at Ohio State, the place she performed for 2 seasons.

She averaged 4.5 factors and a couple of.4 rebounds in 22.4 minutes in 2022-23, her first season in Baton Rouge, and a couple of.0 factors, 1.5 assists and 12.5 minutes in 4 video games this season.

LSU may also be with out Sa’Myah Smith for the remainder of the season after she suffered a season-ending knee damage a number of weeks in the past within the Cayman Islands.