MiLaysia Fulwiley continued her red-hot start, Mikaylah Williams played disruptive defense, and the LSU women's basketball team picked up yet another lopsided win over a mid-major opponent.

This time, the No. 9 Tigers (4-0) shook off a slow start and breezed to an 101-37 victory over Denver on Friday in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The Pioneers, a 1-4 team from the West Coast Conference, trailed just 14-12 late in the first quarter.

Then Williams banked in a runner from the low block, got a steal at the other end and rolled in a breakaway layup, kick-starting a 26-0 run that LSU rode to a commanding 42-14 halftime lead. The Tigers outscored Denver 22-2 in the pivotal second quarter, and their lead at the break would've been even wider had they not missed 10 of their first 13 free-throw tries.

So on Friday, it was more of the same from an LSU team that's off to a hot start.

The Tigers won their first three games by an average margin of 87 points. Their first three opponents — Southeastern Louisiana, Texas Southern and McNeese State — hardly found any open shots inside the 3-point arc, which allowed LSU to rebound long misses and turn them into easy transition points at the other end.

Denver ran into the same problem Friday. It took 40 of its 56 shots from beyond the 3-point arc and made only seven of those looks.

The Tigers, on the other hand, shot 59% from the field and finished with 62 points in the paint. Fulwiley scored a season-high 23 points on 9-of-14 shooting, blocked two shots and forced three turnovers, while sophomore forward ZaKiyah Johnson added 13 points, six rebounds and two steals.

Williams didn't have a great shooting night to start — she missed seven of her first 10 shots — but she still finished with 20 points while also grabbing seven rebounds, assisting on three makes and stealing away a career-high six possessions.

Jada Williams, a transfer point guard from Iowa State, tallied eight points, six rebounds and six assists. Freshman center Anna Minaeva corralled a game-high 10 boards. Noa Morro, the sharpshooting senior forward who made her LSU debut on Tuesday against McNeese, tallied eight points and six rebounds in 17 minutes. She played only 13 minutes against the Cowgirls.

Denver, which scored only four points in the paint, turned the ball over 26 times, and LSU turned those giveaways into 37 points.

The Tigers received a visit on Friday from Caroline Bradley, the five-star Louisiana-born center who signed with the program on Wednesday. The team honored the 6-foot-5 Oak Grove star at half court between the first and second quarters of the game, and the PMAC crowd greeted her with a standing ovation.

LSU has three more home games left to play before it hits the road the week of Thanksgiving to face Villanova and North Carolina State in the Fort Myers Tip-Off. The first of those contests is a home game against Troy that's set to tip off at 7 p.m. Monday.

Coach Kim Mulkey did not hold a postgame news conference on Friday, and reporters were told to leave the PMAC shortly before she was set to discuss the game “out of an abundance of caution.”

An LSU spokesperson said Friday night that arena personnel had begun their scheduled sweep of the building because of an unspecified “security concern.” School officials did not detect a credible threat to the campus, the spokesperson said.