They won the game for us LSU reserves propel Tigers to NCAA championship

DALLAS — LSU Tigers coach Kim Mulkey criticized her bench after an ineffective first half against the Virginia Tech Hokies during Friday’s national semifinals. Graduate student Jasmine Carson, freshman Sa’Myah Smith and sophomore Last-Tear Poa came away with a collective minus-14 in a combined 17 minutes before finishing with zero points by game’s end. “They didn’t take that lightly,” Tigers star sophomore forward Angel Reese said of Mulkey’s challenge. “Coach gets on everybody, and I think they took that personal.” Amid early foul trouble to their starters on Sunday, LSU’s “role players” stepped up massively on the biggest of stages,…