LSU women’s basketball’s Last-Tear Poa injury update following exit from SEC Tournament
GREENVILLE, S.C. — LSU women’s basketball guard Last-Tear Poa suffered a concussion during the team’s 75-67 win over Ole Miss in the SEC Tournament semifinals Saturday night inside Bon Secours Wellness Arena.
The team released an update on her condition after she took a hard hit and fall during the fourth quarter of the game.
“Poa suffered a concussion, but has movement and feeling throughout her body. She is expected to be released from the hospital tonight,” LSU announced.
The junior point guard had to leave the court with 5:44 remaining on a medical cart. Poa attempted to take a charge after Ole Miss’ Zakiya Stephenson stole a pass and attacked the lane. The contact forced Poa fall backward onto the floor, where the back of her head struck the court.
Trainers and medical staff, along with LSU coach Kim Mulkey, went out on the court to check on her. Poa initially attempted to try and slowly walk to the bench with assistance but couldn’t get there and went back down, at which point the stretcher was called for.
Per team officials, Poa was transported to St. Francis Hospital in downtown Greenville for further evaluation.
‘I ain’t rolling with that call’: sports world reacts to controversial Iowa-UConn finish
The controversial finish to Friday’s national semi-final between Iowa and Connecticut ended one of the most anticipated games in women’s college basketball history on a sour note and kicked off a furore on social media.
Caitlin Clark and the Hawkeyes held on for a 71-69 win in the women’s Final Four before a sold-out crowd at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, aided by a disputed offensive foul call on Aaliyah Edwards on the Huskies’ final possession as they trailed by one point with five seconds remaining.
The call returned possession to Iowa and forced UConn to foul, sending Clark to the line. The star guard, who finished with 21 points, made one of two free throws to account for the final margin and once the Hawkeyes grabbed an offensive rebound on her miss, Iowa were able to keep possession until the final buzzer.
“I wasn’t given an explanation,” Edwards said of the moving screen call. “There was no real time to get an explanation for it. My point of view, it was pretty clean.”
The officials saw it differently.
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James was among the biggest names to take objection to the decision, writing on X: “NAAAAAHHHHHH!!! I ain’t rolling with that call.”
That sentiment was echoed by Rudy Gay, a 17-year NBA veteran following a decorated college career at UConn, who wrote, simply: “You can’t call that!!!”.
Two more UConn alumnae to object included former Huskies stars Swin Cash and Renee Montgomery. Cash called it “unacceptable” while Montgomery posted “LET THE PLAYERS DETERMINE THE GAME!!” A third, Diana Taurasi, the longtime Phoenix Mercury point guard and five-time Olympic gold medalist, was even more pointed.
“That was a terrible call,” Taurasi said on ESPN’s alternative broadcast with Sue Bird. “We always talk about, ‘let the players decide the game,’ especially a benign call like that where you really didn’t even affect the player. They still got over the screen. It’s just tough to end a game like that.”
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