LSU weaponized Lane Kiffin card for Ole Miss women's basketball right when it hurt most

LSU's Amiya Joyner (1) holds a cutout of Lane Kiffin following a win over Ole Miss in a NCAA women’s college basketball game at the Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss in Oxford, Miss. on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.
LSU's Amiya Joyner (1) holds a cutout of Lane Kiffin following a win over Ole Miss in a NCAA women’s college basketball game at the Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss in Oxford, Miss. on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. | Bruce Newman/Special to the Clarion Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Even after having the win, the LSU Tigers kept the punches coming.

A humble, respectful exit was not on the Tigers' list as they kept the haymakers coming right after the 78-70 win to ensure the Rebels felt the insult to the injury.

Lane Kiffin is the ultimate way to troll Ole Miss

They struck right where it hurts the most — by bringing up Lane Kiffin.

After the game, LSU's Amiya Joyner and Kate Kovalto celebrated on the court with handheld cutouts of Kiffin, taunting not just the Ole Miss players but the whole Rebel Nation.

It was a message the Tigers sent just weeks after Kiffin staged a unified front at mid-court on the same night his former team, Ole Miss, took on Georgia in the Sugar Bowl by holding hands with Kim Mulkey post-game.

Coach Yo's squad had the lead until the final minutes in the game, where LSU altogether turned the tide in their favor establishing a lead with just seconds remaining on the clock, and then let it run out.

Coach Yo blamed it on missed shots, mainly.

"I'm not taking anything away from LSU, but we ran out of gas," McPhee-McCuin said in her post-game conference. "Seven points in the fourth (quarter), and it wasn't because we didn't take shots. We missed 17 shots. Around the basket."

Mulkey agreed with something similar, saying the Tigers's speed came in clutch in the final moments.

"Speed," Mulkey said. "I thought we were getting a lot of transition baskets. It starts with MiLaysia. She's just so quick, and it makes everyone else play quicker."

Ole Miss heads to Columbia to take on South Carolina next.

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