LSU women's basketball star Aneesah Morrow had tooth knocked loose in win at Tennessee

Women's college basketball is a physical sport.

LSU women's basketball star junior forward Aneesah Morrow, who's position and her role for Kim Mulkey's team sees plenty of beating and banging on a game-in, game-out basis, felt the physicality tick up to another level Sunday.

In the win at Tennessee, Morrow took a shot to the mouth, having one of her front teeth on her lower jaw knocked loose along with her bottom lip getting bloodied.

"There are so many things that happen over the course of a game and people will send it to me later and I'm going, I'm at that game, I pretty much watch everything but I never saw that," LSU coach Kim Mulkey told media members Tuesday during a press conference.

"I saw blood on her lip when she came to a huddle but you're so in the moment, you didn't ask what happened. And she continued to play. So I don't know what happened."

The injury appeared to take place late in the second quarter on a Tennessee inbound play underneath its own basket. Morrow was face-guarding Lady Vols star Rickea Jackson, who tried to break free and her shoulder ended up catching Morrow hard, squarely on the mouth.

Morrow's head snapped back on contact as she staggered backward before regaining defensive positioning.

The LSU forward posted on her Instagram story Monday, the day after the Tennessee game, a video herself waiting at the dentist's office with the caption, "loose tooth and busted lip," while taking her finger and wiggling her tooth.

"I didn't know that. No one told me her tooth was loose," Mulkey said with a laugh.

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Morrow didn't have one of her better games against Tennessee, finishing with 8 points and 13 rebounds playing more than 34 minutes.

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