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While a generation of basketball fans have come to know Charles Barkley as the funny loudmouth on TNT’s “Inside the NBA”, those that came before them remember Barkley as one of the game’s greatest players. Despite his relatively small stature, standing at just 6-foot-6 as a power forward, Barkley was a dominant force on both sides of the ball and an all-time great rebounder.
After all, there is a reason Barkley was an 11-time NBA All-Star, an NBA MVP, a Basketball Hall of Fame member and named one of the league’s 75 best players of all-time.
LSU Star Aneesah Morrow Is Dominating On The Boards Despite Her Stature
But fast forward to present day and it appears that women’s college basketball now has its own version of Barkley. Her name is Aneesah Morrow, she plays for the LSU Tigers, and she is having an absolutely dominant season.
The former DePaul trasnfer stands at just 6-foot-1, which is on the shorter side for a front court player even in the women’s game. But that hasn’t slowed her down one bit. While superstars such as Paige Bueckers, JuJu Watkins and Hannah Hidalgo steal the headlines, Morrow has been downright dominant.
Kim Mulkey says that Aneesah Morrow “gets everything she deserves.”
“Her motor. Her energy. You want to be people who have her kind of energy.”#LSU pic.twitter.com/R9riRQvqhy
— Cory Diaz (@ByCoryDiaz) November 21, 2024
She leads ranks second on the undefeated Tigers in scoring at 18.4 points per game. But more impressively, she leads the entire country with 14.4 rebounds per game. A reminder, Morrow is just 6-foot-1!
Through 18 games, she has recorded an almost unbelievable 16 double-doubles. Unsurprisingly, that leads the country. She’s notched a pair of 20-20 games, and is the only player to have done so even once this year. As Meghan Hall of For The Win points out, her 90 career double-doubles rank third all-time in NCAA D1 history.
Morrow is not just a star, she’s a superstar. And her incredible level of play has the Tigers in position to potentially make another run at an NCAA Tournament championship.