The LSU women’s basketball team doesn’t take very many 3-pointers. It hasn’t since coach Kim Mulkey took over in 2021, and it isn’t now, with the first five games of the 2025-26 season in the books.

But no team in the country is off to a hotter start from beyond the arc than the No. 5 Tigers (5-0), who are both taking and making more long-range shots than they did in each of the previous four seasons. Through five games, LSU is shooting 47% from 3-point range — one of the key reasons why it emerged from its road win over Tulane on Monday with the nation’s top scoring offense.

“It's not anything that we're doing differently,” Mulkey said.

But the numbers look different. Maybe it’s merely a hot streak. An early-season mirage.

Or perhaps it’s a sign this LSU team is a bigger threa

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