Maintain your head on a swivel in case you’re ever consuming mozzarella sticks within the neighborhood of Kim Mulkey.
“Are those media over there or are they just eating?” Mulkey questioned as she kicked off her portion of the postgame press convention following three-seeded LSU girls’s basketball’s SEC Event semifinal loss to No. 2 Texas on the Wellness Area in Greenville, S.C.
One of many media members in query was the Greenville Information’ Lulu Kesin, who covers South Carolina soccer and girls’s basketball.
Kesin was not excited by Mulkey’s press convention as a result of the Gamecocks, the staff she is there to cowl, weren’t concerned within the postgame presser.
“Sitting far away from the press conference, I was off to the side writing when Kim Mulkey saw me take a bite of my mozzarella stick,” Kesin posted on X.
Kesin additionally connected a photograph displaying simply how far she was from the scrum of reporters there to query Mulkey, assistant coach Bob Starkey and participant Mikaylah Williams.
Even so, Mulkey sniffed out the mozzarella sticks and made the remark singling out any reporter who could have been stress-free within the midst of the chaos that comes with protecting a convention match.
Contemplating her smirk as she questioned Kesin, Mulkey very properly may have simply been making a lighthearted comment seeking to get a couple of smiles out of everybody within the room after her staff’s 56-49 loss.
However with Mulkey’s historical past with the media — she threatened to sue over a Washington Put up profile on her final yr — it’s additionally cheap that Kesin felt the remark was a bit snarky and that it was apparent sufficient that her and the remainder of the media in that space had been simply taking a break whereas they sat within the designated area to take action.
The loss marked the top of Mulkey and the Tigers’ SEC Event run whereas South Carolina took down the Longhorns within the championship sport for the convention title.
Mulkey and LSU completed the season 28-5 with a 12-4 convention file and venture to be within the three-seed vary for the NCAA Event.
The bracket can be revealed on Sunday.
