What Kim Mulkey said about Jordyn Cambridge, Vanderbilt women's basketball after LSU game
Before Vanderbilt women's basketball matched up with No. 12 LSU, Tigers coach Kim Mulkey called the Commodores the most improved team in the SEC.
Vanderbilt showed Thursday that its improvement from a year ago isn't quite enough to hang with the defending national champions for four quarters as the Commodores lost, 85-62.
After Vanderbilt (17-7, 4-6 SEC) shot well from three in the past two games, LSU (20-4, 7-3) held the Commodores to 6-for-32 from beyond the arc. Jordyn Cambridge alone was 1-for-10 from three and scored just seven points.
"Cambridge is quick as lightning and to me, she's the leader of that team," Mulkey said. "And for us to hold her to no points in the first half, I think it was just our activity. It wasn't, just go on and double and her and getting the ball out of her hands or anything like that. It was each perimeter player just getting better and understanding principles, understanding helping the teammate, understanding when to switch."
Vanderbilt coach Shea Ralph said she felt her team started too slow, being outscored 22-7 in the first quarter. The Commodores were outscored by four in the second quarter and five in the fourth quarter, and they outscored the Tigers by one in the third quarter.
"You can't give up 32 second-chance points and 26 offensive rebounds," Ralph said. " ... There were possessions where we looked like we knew exactly what we're trying to do, and then there were possessions where we look like someone just lit our team on fire and we're throwing the ball all over the place.
" ... Just not happy with the outcome of the game. I mean, I don't feel like the score tells the whole story. Because except for that first quarter, we were pretty competitive. And I felt like there were times certainly in the second half where we had momentum and where we were going toe to toe with them. That's the team that I know."
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Aria Gerson covers Vanderbilt athletics for The Tennessean. Contact her at agerson@gannett.com or on Twitter @aria_gerson.
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