Angel Reese gave a controversial take after LSU downed No. 1 seed Virginia Tech to advance to the National Championship game Friday night. Reese, who is a top 3 player in the country this season, insisted that LSU put women’s basketball on the map “by itself.”

Here’s Reese’s full comments:

Is Reese off base?

Respectfully, yes.

It’s unclear whether she means all-time or this season/recent WBB (assuming the latter), but either are wildly controversial statements. When you think of women’s basketball historically, Cheryl Miller, Pat Summitt and Geno Auriemma immediately come to mind. When you think of modern women’s college basketball, Reese and LSU of course have to come to mind, but perhaps the prevailing thoughts are of South Carolina’s Dawn Staley and one of the most exciting players the game has seen in Iowa’s Caitlin Clark.

LSU has not yet won a championship in women’s college basketball, though they have a great opportunity to do so against Iowa. For reference, Tennessee and UConn have won a combined 18 of the 40 national championships held since the inaugural title game in 1982.

South Carolina and Dawn Staley have 2 of their own, both within the past 10 years. Zero titles against a combined 20, not to mention the important work Summitt did to ground the game and Auriemma did at UConn to keep it going, means there’s just no contest here. Women’s basketball is not what it is today without either of those 2 previously mentioned individuals, especially Summitt.

Reese meant nothing malicious by this comment. It’s simply confidence in her team and her incredible abilities on the court, but it’s also objectively an incorrect statement.