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Two LSU signees invited to play in McDonalds All-American Game

On3 imageby:Matthew Brune•01/27/25•

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ZaKiyah Johnson LSU
ZaKiyah Johnson LSU

LSU signees ZaKiyah Johnson and Grace Knox have been invited to play in this year’s McDonald’s All-American Game which is set to take place on April 1 in the Barclay’s Center.

LSU signed the nation’s No. 1 class in November. Along with the two playing in the game, LSU also signed Divine Bourrage and Bella Hines who were both nominees for the McDonald’s All-American Game. All four signees are five-star recruits who are all ranked as high as No. 24 among the various class rankings.

The current LSU Women’s Basketball team has three players that were previously McDonald’s All-Americans in high school. Flau’Jae Johnson played in the game in 2022 and the following year both Aalyah Del Rosario and Mikaylah Williams were in the game.

LSU Women’s Basketball Signing Class

Divine Bourrage: No. 12 ESPN, No. 7 On3, No. 9 Prospects Nation, No. 7 247Sports, No. 11 Collegiate Girls Basketball Report

Bella Hines: No. 30 ESPN, No. 24 On3, No. 26 Prospects Nation, No. 24 247Sports, No. 35 Collegiate Girls Basketball Report

ZaKiyah Johnson: No. 13 ESPN, No. 4 On3, No. 4 Prospects Nation, No. 12 247Sports, No. 8 Collegiate Girls Basketball Report

Grace Knox: No. 6 ESPN, No. 13 On3, No. 15 Prospects Nation, No. 11 247 Sports, No. 7 Collegiate Girls Basketball Report

*LSU press release

“Divine can play the point, can play the off guard,” Mulkey said. “We signed big Z [ZaKiyah] from Kentucky, a big guard who can post you up and rebound. Then you add Grace to the mix and she’s more of a Morrow type as a hard-nosed player. It’s hard to keep her off the boards. Then you add Bella who can shoot the three ball and comes from a winning program over the summer. They won just about everything with Cy Fair. We’re excited about those guys. Three out of four came on an official visit together and we got all three of them.”

Mulkey has successfully rebuilt LSU into one of the best women’s basketball programs in the country and after only taking one player in the 2024 class is back with another deep and versatile signing group set to help LSU immediately in the 2025-26 season.

“We’re always recruiting. We never stop recruiting,” Mulkey said. “Sadly, the recruiting now is, you have to wait until the end of the season to see who stays, who goes, and who’s in the portal and that was never like that until here recently.”

Mulkey’s hunger continues to persist throughout the season as the Tigers are 20-1 and 5-1 in SEC play coming off of a loss to South Carolina and a win over Texas A&M this past weekend with Oklahoma up next on Thursday.

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