A 3-pointer from the halfcourt logo. A leaping, pirouetting layup. Even the shots that MiLaysia Fulwiley misses have a certain flair to them.

They did when Fulwiley starred for South Carolina, and they do now at the start of her first season with the LSU women’s basketball team . The difference, now, is that the transfer guard is making those shots more often than she’s missing them through the first six games of her junior year – a stretch in which she’s played the best basketball of her career.

Fulwiley is the No. 5 Tigers’ (6-0) leading scorer. Her field-goal percentage and her 3-point percentage are both career highs – just like her early-season averages in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks.

As of Thursday, no Division I player had tallied more steals this year than F

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