BATON ROUGE - Angel Reese paced the Tigers with 26 points in her Baltimore homecoming and No. 7 LSU took down Coppin State, 80-48, Wednesday night in a sold out PEC Arena.

Wednesday's contest marked the first time that a defending women's NCAA DI National Champion played at an HBCU, per ESPN Stats & Info.

Reese dropped 26 points and brought down 6 boards to lead all scorers on 11-15 from the field. She also tied her career-high with 5 steals. Much of the 4,100 announced crowd came out to see Reese make her return to Baltimore for the first sellout in the history of the PEC Arena.

Aneesah Morrow secured her 7th-straight double-double as she scored 13 points and hauled in 13 rebounds. Morrow's defense was also impressive as she finished with 3 blocks and 4 steals.

Flau'Jae Johnson finished with 18 points to mark her 3rd-straight game scoring in double figures. The Sophomore went 7-14 from the field while adding 3 assists and 3 steals. After earning a career high 6 steals against Northwestern State on Sunday, Last-Tear Poa reached another career high on Wednesday. Poa tallied 8 steals to beat her previous high of 6.

Coppin was led by sharpshooter Tiffany Hammond who scored xx points on x-xx from the three-point line. Hammond added 3 assists and a couple of steals as she accounted for nearly half of the Eagles points.

Two other Eagles reached double-figures. Laila Lawrence had 11 and Faith Blackstone finished with 10. Lawrence had a double-double as she added 11 rebounds to lead Coppin.

LSU will return home following the holidays to host Jacksonville at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 30th for its final tune up game before conference play starts. The Tigers will open conference play on Thursday, January 4th in the PMAC against Missouri at 8:00 p.m.

The Tigers opened up with a 17-3 run led by Reese and Johnson through the first five minutes of action. With just over a minute to go Johnson hit a triple to push the Tigers past the 20-point margin and give LSU a 22-8 lead over CSU. Reese finished the first quarter with 10 points and Johnson had 9. Both Players were 4-5 from the field in the first 10 minutes.

The Eagles picked up momentum early in the second as they held LSU scoreless for over two minutes on 5-0 run. After only leading by 8, Last-Tear Poa hit her first three of the season to move the lead back to double figures, 31-20. Hammond boosted Coppins scoring late in the quarter as she went 3-4 from beyond the arch. Despite going 1-8 on its last 8 attempts, LSU took a 40-26 lead into halftime.

Johnson led a 7-0 LSU run to start the third quarter as she scored 5 points in the first two minutes. CSU's Hammond halted the run with her fifth three-point of the game to make it 47-29, Tigers. LSU defense continued to give the Eagles problems as the Tigers went on a 10-2 run to give them a 30-point lead. LSU held Coppin scoreless for over 2 minutes as it took a 64-33 lead into the final quarter.

LSU forced an early CSU timeout as Reese capped off a 6-0 run with a coast-to-coast finish through two Eagle defenders. Both teams continued to trade buckets until CSU called a timeout with 2:30 left in regulation. LSU held the Eagles scoreless for the final 3 minutes as it cruised to a 80-48 win in Baltimore.