Good morning. Did you know that LSU is the only school in the SEC and just one of two in the country with multiple wide receivers on the AP All-America Teams? They’re Malik Nabers and Brian Thomas Jr.!

What did we pour into today's Brew?

🏀 Big-time honors for some Tigers
⚽️ All-Louisiana Honors
🐯 And much, much more!

Play By Play. Few know LSU's Heisman Trophy winner like Sherman Wilson. Fresh off his trip to New York City, Wilson sat down with Chris Blair and Kent Lowe to talk about Jayden Daniels, his role within the LSU Football program, and more.

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📈 STOCK UP

🔼  Hometown Hero. As the Tigers are in the hometown of Angel Reese to take on Coppin State tonight, the women’s basketball star was named the Sporting News Athlete of the Year! She shares the award with Iowa’s Caitlin Clark. Angel has had features in the New York Times, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, and many other publications. She won an ESPY, made the TIME NEXT100 list, and the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Last season, she set an SEC record for consecutive double-doubles to start a season, recording one in LSU’s first 23 games. She finished the year with an NCAA record of 24 double-doubles.

The Tigers will play Coppin State at 5 pm on ESPN+. This is Angel’s first game back in Maryland in over 660 days.

🔼 Our Conference. The SEC Co-Player of the Week award went to Angel Reese after recording two double-doubles last week. She had a career-high six steals against McNeese, plus 21 points and 11 rebounds. She followed that up with 25 points and 14 rebounds against Northwestern State, her 39th double-double at LSU.

🔼 No Rookie Mistakes. Our not-so-typical freshman Mikaylah Williams was named the SEC Freshman of the Week and the USBWA Tamika Catchings Freshman of the Week! She averaged 20 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists, and 3.5 steals last week. She had a career-high six assists with no turnovers against McNeese. The freshman is first in the SEC in free throw percentage, making all 30 of her attempts this year.

🔼 For The Boot. The Louisiana Sports Writers Association announced that three Tigers earned 2023 All-Louisiana honors — Mollie Baker, Ava Galligan, and Maya Gordon.

⚽️ Mollie started in all 20 matches for the Tigers. She scored three goals and recorded five assists to match the team-high. She took 11 shots against Northwestern State, the most shots taken in a game by an SEC player all season. She was named to the 2023 United Soccer Coaches All-Southeast Region Third Team.

⚽️ Ava started in 17 matches as a freshman and saw playing time in all 20. She scored four goals and matched Mollie’s five assists. She was also named All-SEC Second Team, All-SEC Freshman, and to the 2023 Midseason Top Drawer Soccer Top 100 Freshman List.

⚽️ Maya was an LSU team-captain this season. She played in all 20 matches and was a crucial piece of the LSU defense. She recorded an assist and two shots on the year.

🤔 TIGER TRIVIA

Today’s trivia question…

How many SEC Player of the Week honors has Angel Reese earned since being at LSU?

Think you got it? Scroll to the bottom of this email for the answer. 

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📆 THE WEEK AHEAD

Thursday 12/21

🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. Lamar @ 8:00pm | Tickets | Listen | SEC Network

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Eight

🐯 Have a great Wednesday, y'all!