Flau'jae Johnson gives LSU crowd one final NCAA tournament show as Tigers storm into Sweet 16: 'What a way to go out'

Earlier this year, an LSU coach posed a question to Flau’jae Johnson that was deeper than the typical query about defensive coverages or offensive sets. When the final buzzer sounded on her LSU career, would she be sad? “Nah,” Johnson recalled telling him.

“These last four years, I gave everything. I lived in the gym. I didn’t do much partying.

I really poured everything I could into LSU. ” Draft your Yahoo Fantasy Baseball team for the 2026 MLB Season Maybe “sad” was the wrong adjective. Overwhelming emotion proved the better descriptor of a national champion who stayed at the program all four years , reached deep into her community and left it all for them on the court.

One of the sport’s most well-recognized stars exited her final game at LSU’s Pete Maravich Assembly Center to hugs, tears and a long embrace with Kim Mulkey as the legendary head coach’s first McDonald’s All-American at the program. The senior Associated Press All-American flashed her hands in the signature “four” for her jersey number and took a seat on the bench, her work long ago done in the Sacramento 2 regional’s second round. Big 4 got us in our feels 🥹 @Flaujae checking out at the PMAC and sharing a moment with Coach @KimMulkey .