With the LSU Lady Tigers winning it all last season and looking to repeat this year, you’d think that any freshman looking to impact the team would have to bide their time.
Not Mikaylah Williams.
The first-year guard already leads the team in minutes, averaging 32.1 per game. Her stat line is a marvel at age 18, averaging 15.9 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.4 steals per game. The fact that she is only going to get better is a horrifying realization the rest of the SEC will have to come to grips with.
Williams is a certified bucket. She’s already an elite shooter, scoring from deep at a 40.2 percent clip. She also makes so many buckets off hustle plays. She crashes the boards and gets into the paint on virtually every field goal attempt, which allows her to clean up the glass and get easy points from missed shots. Her ability to shoot the mid-range basket is elite as well, a lost art in a game becoming more and more about the 3-pointer or a layup near the basket. Sure, Williams zigs like the rest of her peers, but she also can zag too.
She’s had many stellar performances, but none as impressive as her 42-point performance versus Kent State. In that game, she was unstoppable, converting on five 3s, going a perfect 7-for-7 from the charity stripe and…
