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| Title: | Flau'jae Johnson's final moment at LSU doesn't define her storied career |
| Link: | Original article on nytimes.com |
| Region: | US |
| Topics: | left; moment; johnsons; williams; doesnt; lsu; shot; johnson; going; right; define; final; career; trailing; guard; duke; storied; flaujae; Duke Blue Devils men's basketball; LSU Tigers football; NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament; Flau'jae Johnson; Duke Blue Devils; College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS; Rebound (basketball); All-America |
| Datetime: | 3/28/2026, 11:00:12 AM |
| Summary: | SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With just 5:11 left in Friday night’s Sweet 16 matchup, Flau’jae Johnson wasn’t going to let her story end this way. Even after trailing by 10 points to Duke, she wasn’t willing to accept failure for LSU. We were like, ‘We don’t want to do that no more, so let’s go,’ and that’s what we did.”AdvertisementJohnson was flying over the scorer’s table with just over a minute left, LSU trailing then by only three. “I feel like I just let everybody down.”Since Angel Reese’s departure in 2024, Johnson’s swagger has become LSU’s animating force. Advertisement“She said, ‘I’m sorry,’ but she doesn’t have anything to be sorry about,” freshman guard ZaKiyah Johnson said.... |
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