Kateri Poole is no longer on the LSU women's basketball team

Alexa Philippou, ESPNDecember 10, 2023, 6:38 p.m. ET
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Kateri Poole no longer belongs to it LSU According to coach Kim Mulkey, she is the women’s basketball team.

The 5-foot-7 junior guard appeared in four games for the No. 7 Tigers this season. She did not play against on November 14th Kent State Due to a “coach’s decision,” he was only off the field for five minutes in the next game against him Southeast Louisianaand was most recently on the bench when LSU faced him Texas Southalthough she did not speak that day.

“She’s no longer with us,” Mulkey told reporters Sunday after the Tigers game. 83-53 win above Louisiana. Mulkey declined to comment on whether Poole’s departure was a layoff or a mutual farewell.

LSU’s star forward Angel Reesethe Most Outstanding Player of the 2023 NCAA Women’s Tournament, also missed four games in November for unknown reasons and returned on November 30 against Virginia Tech. Mulkey even went so far as to say the team was struggling with “locker room issues.”

Poole, who started for the Tigers during their national championship run last season, began her college career at Ohio Statewhere she played for two seasons.

She averaged 4.5 points and 2.4 rebounds in 22.4 minutes in her first season in Baton Rouge in 2022-23 and 2.0 points, 1.5 assists and 12.5 minutes in four games this season.

LSU will also be without it Sa’Myah Smith for the remainder of the season after suffering a season-ending knee injury in the Cayman Islands a few weeks ago.