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SportsCenter to broadcast live from LSU campus Thursday, feature Tiger stars
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SportsCenter will spotlight top-flight LSU stars during a live broadcast from the Baton Rouge campus on Thursday afternoon from 2-3 p.m. ET.
The show will be broadcasting from the PMAC Plaza as part of the leadup to a women’s basketball showdown between No. 7 LSU and No. 13 Oklahoma on Thursday night.
ESPN’s Christine Williamson will conduct interviews with Tigers star gymnast Olivia Dunne, the girlfriend of former LSU star pitcher Paul Skenes, along with Flau’Jae Johnson and Aneesah Morrow of the women’s basketball team. While Dunne’s interview will be prerecorded, Johnson and Morrow will appear live.
The ESPN show will feature Williamson live outside the PMAC and Matt Barrie live in the SportsCenter studio. After hosting multiple on-campus shows during the fall, SportsCenter on-campus will make its first stop of the spring in Baton Rouge. Johnson, LSU’s leading scorer, and Morrow, who leads the nation in rebounding, will appear together during the latter part of the show.
Thursday night’s showdown between LSU and Oklahoma will also be a whiteout in the PMAC that starts at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2.
Dunne was a part of LSU’s national championship-winning gymnastics team last year and is in her fifth and final season at LSU. She is an All-American on the uneven bars and plays a pivotal role for the Tigers on bars, beam and floor.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
