LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey is not going anywhere.
Following the Tigers'87-85 buzzer-beater loss to Duke on Friday night in the Sweet 16, Mulkey responded to a question about her future. Earlier in the day, a pair of LSU "insider" X accounts reported that the 63-year-old would be retiring after the season.
That, apparently, will not be the case, according to Mulkey.
"I'm not retiring," she said,via NOLA.com. "I don't know where that came from. I'm only 63, and I'm healthy with a few stents in my heart; my doctors say I'm good to go. I have no clue where that stuff comes from. I've never, ever told anybody that."
As those social media posts were going viral, Mulkey's phone was busy with people reaching out to see if the news was true.
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"There are moments where you feel like, 'Why am I doing this?'" Mulkey said. "But I don't get how people can just write crap on social media. That has to make you all feel really bad as journalists."
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In five seasons at LSU, Mulkey has led the Tigers to the NCAA tournament five times, which includes a national championship and two trips to the Elite Eight. Before arriving in Baton Rouge, she coached at Baylor and won three national titles.
Mulkey also owns the college basketball record as being the only person to win a national championship as a player, assistant coach and head coach.
With a contract that runs through the 2032-33 season, Mulkey put the point across multiple times that she wasn't retiring.
"I'm going to be in this game unless LSU fires me, OK?" Mulkey said. "Until I can't put a product on that floor that's competitive or my health fails me. So I would appreciate all of you in here, whoever put that out, if you know who they are, you need to stop it when you see it, because it's just a flat-out lie."