Just like that, LSU's season is over. A year after Kim Mulkey and LSU sent UCLA packing in the Sweet 16, the Bruins returned the favor in the Elite Eight.
And for the second straight season, LSU came up one game short of the Final Four. Last year, it was Caitlin Clark and Iowa who got the best of the Tigers.
It's hard to make sense of what this means for LSU yet, but we're going to try. In some ways, this year was a reset for LSU. That doesn't mean it was a rebuild, but the Tigers were navigating life without star Angel Reese.