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Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball legend Kim Mulkey finally will coach a game in north Louisiana, but not in Ruston.

Instead, Mulkey is bringing Parkway product Mikaylah Williams and the unbeaten (10-0), fifth-ranked LSU women’s basketball team to Brookshire Grocery Arena in Bossier City to face Grambling Sunday afternoon at 2.

Williams scored 32 points and had nine rebounds Thursday night to lead LSU’s 94-88 overtime win over visiting Stanford. Her mid-range turnaround jumper with four seconds to go tied the game in regulation and completed a Tiger comeback from a 15-point first-quarter deficit.

The two-time national high school player of the year at Parkway looked the part, scoring six of LSU’s 14 overtime points including a 3-pointer with 38 seconds left that salted away the victory.

Williams, last season’s Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year, is averaging 16.2 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.5 steals while sinking 48 percent of her shots, including 40 percent on 3-pointers, and making 92 percent at the free throw line.

Grambling, which went 23-10 last season and reached the second round of the WNIIT under first-year coach Courtney Simmons, has struggled this season. The Tigers fell to 2-6 Thursday night after a 77-60 loss at Tulsa.

Grambling’s top player is a Shreveport native who was a high school star at Mansfield. Kahia Warmsley leads GSU with a 12.8 scoring average. She was the Class 3A state player of the year for Mansfield in 2020 and previously played at Southern Mississippi and Tulane before transferring to Grambling before last season.

Grambling was the SWAC runner-up last year with a 15-3 league record.