Kim Mulkey Sends Scathing Assessment of Officiating After LSU's Loss to Alabama

LSU Tigers head coach Kim Mulkey got blunt when speaking about how her team's loss to Alabama was officiated.

Feb 6, 2025; Columbia, Missouri, USA; LSU Lady Tigers head coach Kim Mulkey reacts to a call against the Missouri Tigers during the first half at Mizzou Arena. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-Imagn Images | Denny Medley-Imagn Images

LSU Tigers women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey has become notorious for some of her sideline antics during games.

Just earlier this year, Mulkey went viral for slapping a clipboard out of assistant coach (and WNBA legend) Seimone Augustus' hands while yelling at another one of her assistant coaches.

Assistant Coach Seimone Augustus' reaction to Head Coach Kim Mulkey slapping the clipboard! 🤣 pic.twitter.com/ZTe58j3aE5

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Later in that same game, she received a technical foul for crashing out on the referees after Flau'jae Johnson got called for a foul in the fourth quarter.

Kim Mulkey has been issued a technical foul after a foul was called on Flau'Jae Johnson. pic.twitter.com/LEDPM6FG1F

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Mulkey's passion is typically seen as a good thing for her team; at least, according to those who aren't the target of that passion when it goes south. And after her team's 88-85 loss to No. 20 ranked Alabama on February 27, Mulkey made it extremely clear that she was not happy with the game's officiating.

"Yes, yes. That was a poorly officiated game," Mulkey said when asked whether the 39 foul calls and constant stoppages during Thursday's game made it tough to keep her team in a rhythm, per the LSU Tigers on TigerBait YouTube account.

"And I bet if you ask [Alabama head coach] Kristy Curry, she'll tell you the same thing. It wouldn't have mattered if we had won or lost: Too much stopping. Think of all the things you saw take place tonight. Is that basketball?" she continued. "I don't even know some of the things, I was asking questions like 'What is that call? What are you saying? Why are you going to the monitor now?'

"Let me make it clear: They had nothing to do with us losing... But what was a poorly, it just didn't flow for either team."

Kim Mulkey is here for postgame.

She says tonight was a poorly officiated game.

“There was times where I was asking ‘what was that call?’

“There was no flow for either team.”#LSU pic.twitter.com/yTP2XLiM87

— Cory Diaz (@ByCoryDiaz) February 28, 2025

39 fouls (almost exactly one foul call per minute of game time) is an absurd number for a women's college basketball game — or any basketball game, for that matter. It sounds like Mulkey is right to feel upset.