The LSU women’s basketball team won’t have one of its transfer guards for the next two weeks.
Coach Kim Mulkey said Tuesday that Chloe Larry, a point guard from Tennessee Tech, suffered a hairline fracture in her hand last Thursday in the No. 9 Tigers’ win over Texas Southern. The junior underwent a procedure to have a screw inserted into her injured hand, Mulkey said, which was why she did not play Tuesday in LSU’s win over McNeese State.
Larry is a Bossier City native who joined the Tigers via the transfer portal in April. She played her high school basketball with star senior Mikaylah Williams.
Across LSU’s first two games, Larry came off the bench and logged 28 total minutes. She scored eight points on 4-of-6 shooting, to pair with 11 rebounds, 12 assists and only two turnovers.
Now, the Tigers will have to play at least their next three games with 10 active players.
Senior Noa Morro made her LSU debut on Tuesday after missing the first two games with a shin injury. The 6-foot-3 forward from Spain played only 13 minutes against the Cowgirls, but she still finished with 12 points after draining three of the five shots she took from beyond the arc.
Mulkey expects Morro’s minutes will increase as the Tigers inch closer to their tougher nonconference games. Those contests won’t tip off until the week of Thanksgiving, when LSU is set to play Villanova and North Carolina State in the Fort Myers Tip-Off.
Larry could miss games against Denver, Troy, Fairleigh Dickinson and Belmont.
