BATON ROUGE – New LSU football coach Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss women’s basketball coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin got into a bit of a social media spat Friday morning, taking the LSU-Ole Miss rivalry to unforeseen terrain.
LSU women’s basketball traveled to Oxford on Thursday, Feb. 19, and defeated the homestanding Rebels and “Coach Yo,” 78-70, rallying from down 10 points with six minutes to go.
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Kiffin, the former Ole Miss football coach who left for LSU in December, took to X, the social media formerly known as Twitter, to post a message tagging McPhee-McCuin talking about the fan support that she has asked for for the game earlier in the week was because of LSU being in town.
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“Thanks for helping out the attendance (McPhee-McCuin) was begging for LSU (women’s basketball). Glad they showed up. Great competitive game early ladies.”
The announced attendance for the LSU-Ole Miss game was 7,424, the second-largest home crowd this season for the Rebels women’s basketball team. Some of the LSU fans in attendance held up cutouts of Kiffin’s head during the game.
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McPhee-McCuin took exception to Kiffin’s post and him tagging her, accusing him of “not liking women’s sports.”
“Have y’all ever heard of a football coach, tagging a WBB coach after a game?” McPhee-McCuin said. “This guy doesn’t even like women’s sports. Cope harder.”
