Coach Kim Mulkey said she really wasn’t surprised her defending national champion No. 1-ranked LSU Tigers lost their season opener 92-78 Monday to the No. 20 Colorado Buffaloes. But how the Tigers played was another story.
“I’m disappointed and surprised in some individual players that I thought would just be tougher and have a little fight and leadership about them,” Mulkey said. “But I knew what we faced. When you have that many kids that played that many minutes together [as Colorado], we had our hands full. Colorado did exactly what I thought they would do.
“You live with poor shooting, you live with a tough night offensively. What I don’t live with is just guts and fight and physical play [not being there]. I just didn’t think we had that tonight. This is not going to devastate us. Chicken Little said the sun will come out tomorrow, didn’t he?”
Actually, Chicken Little was more of the opinion that the sky was falling, but Mulkey definitely doesn’t think that.
“Those things I described are fixable,” Mulkey said. “But I don’t know how long it’s…
