“I was getting so mad”: LSU's Flau'jae Johnson voices her opinions on receiving hate comments post Elite Eight loss against Caitlin Clark and Iowa

LSU star Flau'jae Johnson is a rising star in women's college basketball, having won the national championship in her freshman year. The stakes were very high last season as well, but they suffered an early exit in the NCAA tournament.

The Caitlin Clark-inspired Iowa defeated the Tigers in a tightly contested Elite Eight matchup. During last week's episode of her podcast "Best of Both Worlds," Johnson spoke about the backlash and hate comments she received after her team's loss to the Hawkeyes.

"After the Iowa game, when we lost, all my comments was just like 'Clark owns you, Clark owns you' and I was getting so mad, I was wanting to reply we had already lost and then the trolls was in my comments. Maybe I was hot, hot, hot, hot," Flau'jae told Livvy Dunne.

"But what really get me when ESPN or a big platform posts something about women's basketball and they'd be trying to troll in the comments. It'd be like dudes who probably never picked up a basketball, can't run straight, got two left feet, legs look like arms. Like I don't really understand."

Iowa won the game 94-87 and advanced to the Final Four. Flau'jae Johnson was the top scorer for LSU with 23 points and six rebounds. Angel Reese had a game-high 20 rebounds. Meanwhile, Iowa's Clark had a 41-point game along with 12 assists and seven rebounds.

Flau'jae Johnson says she will join WNBA when ready

Flau'jae Johnson will enter her third year at LSU in the upcoming season. She has already won an NCAA national championship but wants more before turning professional.

Johnson is one of the projected top picks in the 2025 WNBA draft but she is not in a hurry to end her college career anytime soon.

"I am going to choose to go to the WNBA. I don’t know how soon… just depending on how, you know, how my season goes and things like that," Flau'jae told the New York Post.

"I already won a national championship, but one’s not enough when I have two, two more years left maybe, you know?" she added. "I just want to I want to leave my impact, make my mark. I’m doing something like nobody has ever really done before. So I wanted to be special."

Flau'jae Johnson also said that it was beautiful to witness the growth of the WNBA. She added that the surge in women's basketball came after the influence of players like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.