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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU coach Kim Mulkey dismissed the notion that her team’s narrow escape on its own court against a 14th seed from a non-power conference signified that the third-seeded Tigers looked vulnerable in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The proof will come in how the Tigers perform on Monday night against No. 6 seed Ohio State (24-6) in their second-round game in the Spokane Region. LSU had to rally from 10 points down against Jackson State within the final five minutes on Saturday night. But there has been no talk among Mulkey or her players about wake-up calls. “I just felt like it was a Jackson State team that got on a roll and played good, and we had to fight back,” Mulkey said Sunday. “How could you criticize anything that was done on that floor yesterday? I don’t care if we’re a 3…
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