BATON ROUGE, La. — Angel Reese had 23 points and 15 rebounds to maintain her streak of double-doubles in every game this season, and the LSU No. 5 improved her best program record to 18-0 with an 84-54 win over Auburn on Sunday.
Jasmine Carson had 18 points and Alexis Morris had 12 points and 10 assists for LSU, who led all the way while going 6-0 in the Southeastern Conference game, winning each of those points by 19 or more points.
LSU freshman Flau’jae Johnson added 10 points to give her at least that many points in seven of nine games.
Precious Johnson scored 13 points and Kharyssa Richardson added 10 for Auburn (10-7, 0-5), who lost their fifth straight game since SEC play opened.
Reese, a sophomore from Maryland, had a commanding presence at both ends of the court.
When Auburn guard Sydney Shaw caught an errant pass and rushed toward the basket for an initial breakaway layup, the 6-foot-3 Reese hit her in the paint with his arms raised. Shaw picked up her dribbling and went back from the perimeter, and Auburn’s possession ended in a blocked shot that Reese rebounded.
A few minutes later, Reese received a bounce pass on the edge of the paint and hit a short turn off the glass while being fouled for a 3-point play that made it 76-50.
It was Reese’s 11th game with at least 15 rebounds.
LSU opened the scoring with Carson’s 3 under 30 seconds and took their first double-digit lead when Carson’s layup made it 23-12 late in the opening period. LSU extended their lead to 19 by the end of the second quarter after layups by Reese, who had 13 points in the first half, and Morris.
BIG PICTURE
Auburn: Looked underwhelmed in four of his five SEC games. It’s a lone single-digit loss of six against Missouri. Auburn lost at 32 to Mississippi, at 52 to No. 1 South Carolina, and at 31 to Alabama before his lopsided loss at LSU. …Auburn shot 37% (23 of 63), was 2 of 13 from 3-point range and 6 of 16 on free throws.
LSU: Reese is close to tying the program record for double-doubles held by Sylvia Fowles, who had 19 consecutive doubles in the 2006-07 season. … Reese has scored 19 or more points in 15 straight points and surpassed the 20-point threshold 14 times in his span. … Reese’s most recent dominant display came on the same day that former LSU and WNBA star Seimone Augustus was honored between the first and second quarters. Before the game, Augustus became the first student athlete to have a statue of her unveiled on LSU’s campus.
NEXT
Auburn: On Thursday in the state of Mississippi.
LSU: host Arkansas on Thursday.
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