Kiki Rice has manifested this moment
By Ira Gorawara
April 4, 2025 4:46 p.m.
Redirecting back to tonight’s main event. Coach Cori Close’s starting point guard, and the team’s voice on the floor Kiki Rice, has been visualizing this very day for a year.
After LSU eliminated UCLA’s Tournament run in the Sweet 16 last season, Kiki Rice wrote “We will go to a Final Four” in her journal every single day leading up to last Sunday’s Elite Eight, which happened to be a rematch against LSU.
Rice made her biggest and brightest dreams reality.
But she’s still two wins away from a dream few get to call reality.
(Aidan Sun/Assistant Photo editor)
Gorawara is Sports senior staff and Copy staff. She was previously the 2024-2025 Sports editor on the football, men’s basketball and NIL beats, an assistant Sports editor on the men’s volleyball, men’s tennis, women’s volleyball and rowing beats and a contributor on the men’s volleyball and rowing beats. She is a fourth-year economics and communication student minoring in professional writing from Hong Kong.
Gorawara is Sports senior staff and Copy staff. She was previously the 2024-2025 Sports editor on the football, men’s basketball and NIL beats, an assistant Sports editor on the men’s volleyball, men’s tennis, women’s volleyball and rowing beats and a contributor on the men’s volleyball and rowing beats. She is a fourth-year economics and communication student minoring in professional writing from Hong Kong.
