There are many speculations about what was going to be the next movement of Flau’jae Johnson.
Some thought that LSU’s junior could leave school a year earlier and declare for the WNBA draft, where he would probably have a top 10 selection this season. But the draft and the deadline to declare what was going and left.
And then people began to wonder if Johnson was going to return to LSU, where he is a holder for three seasons, or enter the transfer portal.
Earlier this month, he made fun of an “important announcement” in an Instagram post finished the title with “Junior Year Out!” While that initial added some fuel to the fire that surrounds the possibility of Johnson transferring, he calmed some of those theories the next day when he announced that he was going to the tour. Johnson has a successful career outside the court as a hip-hop artist, and one of his songs is used in a Powerade commercial that tries the NCAA tournament.
If any whisper about Johnson’s transfer was delayed, he let them rest once and for all on Wednesday, the day the portal closes for female university basketball.
“Yes, I will return to LSU,” Johnson told Front ofment Sports.
She added: “It will be me, allowing coach (Kim) Mulkey to train me,” Johnson said. “So that everything else aligns. I will have to be the one who takes that to show an example, this is the standard here. I am ready to do it. I was ready to do it in my previous years.
Johnson was tabulated as a four -star recruit by ESPN that left Marietta, Georgia’s Sprayberry High School in 2022, where it was classified as the 26 best recruits in its class. He became immediate for the LSU of Mulkey, averaging 11 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game for a team of the tigers that the National Championship won with Angel Reese leading the road in 2023.
Last season, with Reese at the WNBA, it was Johnson’s turn and Anesah Morrow to lead the team. LSU advanced to the Eight elite where, despite Johnson’s 28 points, the Tigers fell to UCLA.
Johnson was the rookie of the year of the SEC in 2023, an AP All-American last season, and has twice the team of Ncaa Tournament All-Region. This season, averaged 18.6 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.7 robberies per game while fired 46.8 percent from the floor, 38.3 percent of the land of 3 points and 81 percent of the charity strip.
LSU will look very different next season with Morrow in the WNBA, Shayean Day-Wilson had exhausted his elegicity, and players such as Sa’myah Smith, Jersey Wolfenbarger, last level Poal and Mjracle. They have already won a reinforcement through the portal to land former Notre Dame Kate Koval.
And while Johnson is close, the tigers will look like a contender.