BATON ROUGE, La. — Angel Reese was still enjoying the buzz around LSU‘s national championship last spring when the rumors started.
Hailey Van Lith, an All-ACC first-team honoree who averaged nearly 20 points and led Louisville to the Elite Eight, and Aneesah Morrow, a former national freshman of the year from DePaul, had entered the transfer portal and were said to be considering joining Reese at LSU.
Reese had one thought: “I want ’em all.”
The reigning women’s Final Four Most Outstanding Player and an All-American, Reese is one of the faces of the game and a big success in the Name, Image and Likeness space. But her mindset in trying to win another NCAA title goes beyond her contributions.
She knows LSU will be the top target this season as the defending champion. The better the Tigers are, the better their chances at repeating. And Reese couldn’t have been happier at the thought of adding Van Lith and Morrow, the top two players in ESPN’s transfer rankings.
“I told them, ‘I want y’all to come here. I want to battle you every…
