Flau’jae Johnson and Angel Reesemay or may not be close friends but they were teammates and teammates stand up for one another. The former certainly did so for the latter during the NCAA Tournament.
Johnson, who joined LSU as a true freshman in the same year that Reese transferred-in from Maryland, won a national title in her first season of college hoops. The Tigers’ championship run coincided with the explosion of the women’s game.
South Carolina lost for the first time in a long time. Caitlin Clark and Hailey Van Lith went to battle in the Elite Eight. Reese famously hit Clark with the “you can’t see me” in the final.
That specific moment created quite the stir, both positive and negative.
On one end, Bayou Barbie’s brand skyrocketed. On the other end, her behavior drew a lot of criticism that stayed with her throughout the rest of her time in Baton Rouge and into today. The haters love to hate Angel Reese. They are quick to scrutinize every single thing that she does.
Johnson, Reese and LSU mostly kept all of their thoughts to themselves this past season. They chose not to keep quiet once their run came to an end with a loss to Iowa in the Elite Eight.
