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Following LSU’s loss to Iowa in the elite 8, where she was repeatedly cooked by Ciatlin Clark and clowned online, Hailey Van Lith is leaving LSU. She has re-entered the transfer portal after just one season in Baton Rouge. There were many questions about what her next move would be, but a lot of it was focused on either going pro or returning to LSU. Leaving comes as somewhat of a surprise. But it is the right move for her career. She was in the completely wrong role at LSU and it was shown over the course of the season. In her last season at Louisville HVL averaged 20 points per game and was named all-ACC. But this year at Louisville, her scoring dropped to 11.5 per game, and her shots dropped from 17 at Louisville to just 10 at LSU. She couldn’t perform with so much talent around her, and it often just left her standing around feeling out of place. Her field goal percentage dropped to just 38%. She’s best as the focal point of an offense, and that just wasn’t gonna happen at LSU. If she wants to have a career in the WNBA, then she honestly needed to transfer to recoup the perception of her game. She was viewed as the top transfer in the country last season, and I’m not sure that will be the case this year. However, a lot of the negative discussion surrounding her defense on Caitlin Clark is unfair. She often had a hand in her face, and the shots being made by Clark were of a very high degree of difficulty. The decision not to throw a longer defender like Flau’jae Johnson or even a double at Clark falls on Kim Mulkey, not Van Lith. She needs to find somewhere where she can be the main option, and that seems to be the plan. Now let’s take a deeper look at her decision to flee the Bayou.
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