'This was for Poa!' - Angel Reese gets emotional after LSU's win _ ESPN College Basketball
Mar 10, 2024
Angel Reese joins postgame after the LSU Tigers' 75-67 win over the Ole Miss Rebels to advance to the SEC Women's Basketball Tournament Finals. Her teammate Last-Tear Poa went down with an apparent head injury with five minutes left in the 4th quarter, and she gets emotional sending her well-wishes to her teammate.
All right, Angel.
We saw you huddle up with your team
after last year Poa went down.
What were you telling everybody to keep them reassured?
We knew what Poa wanted from us.
It was for Poa tonight.
And being able to come together, I mean, I'm emotional just
because she brings so much to the team,
and I hope she's OK.
So tonight was for Poa, and we're going
to go back and go check on her.
And we kind of heard you guys in the huddle,
Kim Mulkey coming over, just really firing you guys up,
saying, hey, go out there and win this game.
What did that message feel like for her to reassure you?
We had already been through some adversity throughout the year,
missed games, different lineups, so many different things
that's happened to our team.
And we were just built for this moment.
And we trust the God, and we played together,
and we're some dogs.
So I'm just happy where we're at with the team,
and we're getting ready for tomorrow.
Getting ready to head into tomorrow for an SEC
championship against South Carolina, another rematch.
Lots of matchups for you in the history.
What will make this one different?
Just being able to play together,
learn from our mistakes from the first time we see them at home.
So just going back and resting tonight, going through film,
and then coming together and play tomorrow.
Any message to Poa?
I love you, Poa.
All of our thoughts with last year Poa,
who was taken off on a stretcher.
We're in this fourth quarter, but LSU
gets it done for their teammate.
They get back to the SEC tournament final
for the first time since 2012.