Kate Koval

I think that's one of the questions with this team is like, you know, a lot of the sort of the best Kim Mulkey teams have a presence in the paint and a dominant sort of force underneath the basket.

Like, you know, you go back to like the Brittany Griner Baylor teams or the Kalani Brown Baylor teams or Angel Reese and Anissa Morrow in recent years at LSU, you know, with Kate Koval leaving.

to go to Baylor, I wonder what the front court looks like for the Tigers.

Yeah, absolutely.

And, you know, they're going to play hard because it is a Jeff Waltz team.

I'm also really curious to see Kate Koval obviously had a hard offseason and that, you know, she is at LSU.

Kim Mulkey brings in a player from Russia who, you know, is added to the roster after the transfer portal window has closed.

So she has to petition the NCAA for a waiver, which is only given out today.

in extenuating circumstances, she gets that waiver.

For people who don't know, Kate Koval's father is currently in Kiev, Ukraine, working.

He's a part of the Ukrainian military there.

And she's talked a lot about that this isn't a faraway thing for her at all.

Talent at those eight spots I think you're in really good shape and they do have eight really talented players who fit all nicely together I just worry about the size the rebounding do they have enough at those spots to get the kind of production on the glass that they need to be one of the nation's most elite teams to be a final four contender i i don't know i'm not so sure that's my main question that i have the post players are going to be grace knox and noah morrow when she's healthy both 6263 and then off the bench you're probably going to have lola lampley who's a freshman Perimeter player who's moving down into the post because LSU doesn't have a whole lot of depth there.

I think losing Kate Koval, the 6'5 junior, it hurts quite a bit.

You know, her numbers don't jump off the page from last year, but she showed a lot of flashes that she could turn into this real rock solid rebounder, rim protector player.

around the rim score and so not having her makes them a lot deeper and thinner in the front court and I think it takes a little bit of their ceiling off which is why I kind of had them pegged in that sweet 16 kind of finish range

And I know we're like we're well into like October.

But when the Ukrainian senator Kate Koval quit LSU, I thought about you.

Yeah, well, that was my

burn on last week, last month's episode.

Yeah.

They lost Kate Koval-

Mm-hmm

... you know, with that whole situation.