5 months after main LSU to the nationwide championship, Kim Mulkey reportedly is about to turn out to be the highest-paid ladies’s faculty basketball coach within the nation.

Mulkey agreed to a 10-year, $32 million deal, the (Baton Rouge, La.) Advocate and ESPN reported Wednesday evening.

The contract reportedly could possibly be finalized by the LSU Board of Supervisors at a Friday assembly.

Mulkey had a contract that was set to pay her a mean of $2.5 million per yr by 2029, per the Advocate. She would make a mean of $3.2 million beneath the pending deal, starting at $2.75 million and going as much as $3.65 million in 2033, the newspaper reported.

Per ESPN, UConn coach Geno Auriemma and South Carolina coach Daybreak Staley each make $3 million per yr.

Mulkey, 61, received three nationwide championships throughout her time as the top coach at Baylor. She took over at LSU for the 2021-22 season, and after the Tigers exited within the second spherical of the 2022 NCAA Event, they captured the championship this yr.

In two seasons at LSU, Mulkey has a 60-8 report, following her 632-104 mark at Baylor.

Mulkey was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2020 — 20 years after she was inducted into the Girls’s Basketball Corridor of Fame.

—Area Stage Media