Angel Reese talks White House invite and dream NIL deal after national championship with LSU

The beef with Jill Biden and LSU women’s basketball apparently started before tipoff at the National Championship game, according to Angel Reese. 

When everyone was filling out their respective March Madness brackets, President Joe Biden picked the Villanova women to win it all. LSU was nowhere near the Final Four on his bracket, but they won the championship 102-85 over the Iowa Hawkeyes. 

“I think he said we were gonna lose to Michigan,” Angel Reese said on the I AM ATHLETE podcast. 

Fast forward to championship weekend. According to Reese, the first lady was going to visit the LSU and Iowa locker rooms ahead of tipoff on Sunday. But the Tigers said no because they felt disrespected since the president did not pick LSU to win the championship. 

But things only got worse. 

Once the first lady wanted to invite both LSU and Iowa to the White House, the question in the group chat was “what are we doing?” For the Tigers, the situation was, if no one wanted to go, then no one would go. However, they came out with an alternative. 

“They [Iowa] can have that spotlight. We’ll go to the Obama’s, I’m gonna see Michelle and I’m gonna see Barack…,” Reese said. 

In the days following the championship game, the spotlight has intensified on Reese. Her followers on Instagram have shot up and have reached 1.1 million people, making her the third highest earning woman’s college basketball player. 

It’s reported that Reese leads NIL deals for college basketball players and there are certain companies that Reese would like to work with as she continues to build her brand. 

“I wanna work with Fenty… [Rhianna] got beauty and the clothing,” Reese explained.