Mississippi State Sports Blog

Mississippi State junior guard/forward Jamont Gordon has been selected as a midseason top 30 candidate for this year’s John R. Wooden Award, the nation’s most coveted college basketball award. The announcement was made this weekend by The Los Angeles Athletic Club’s John R. Wooden Award Committee.
The reigning SEC Player of the Week as [...]

This Saturday, the most important match of the SEC season for the Mississippi State Bulldogs will take place. They will be going up against Ole Miss. Both teams are playing well in the conference right now and a win over the Rebels would definitely help the Bulldogs RPI. It would also boost their confidence for [...]

Jamont Gordon was named this weeks SEC Player Of The Week for his performance against the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa on Saturday.

Averaged 24.0 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.0 assists in wins over Kentucky and Alabama. Shot 61 percent (17-28 FGs) from the field, including 9-of-15 (60%) from beyond the three-point arc.
Totaled a game-high 24 points, [...]

Jamont Gordon scored 24 points and keyed a late run in Mississippi State’s 66-56 victory over Alabama on Saturday.
The Bulldogs (13-5, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) led by as many as 13 points midway through the second half before Alabama (11-8, 0-4) made a final comeback attempt.
Senario Hillman hit a layup and free throw to bring the [...]

Here is a video feature of Varnado’s triple-double versus Kentucky at The Hump last night. This is only the 3rd triple-double in school history and helped the Bulldogs to their second straight win over Kentucky. This is only the second time in school history that the Bulldogs have back-to-back wins over Kentucky.
Video after the jump.
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State defeated Kentucky 69-64 to go 3 and 0 and stay undefeated in SEC play. We will have a more in-depth recap of the game tomorrow.
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Via Athletic Media Relations
Looking to secure their first 3-0 SEC start since 1993-94, the Mississippi State Bulldogs (11-5, 2-0) play host to the Wildcats of Kentucky (7-7, 1-0) as the second half of ESPN’s Super Tuesday lineup. Tip-off for the nationally televised inter-divisional contest is set for 8 p.m. CT at MSU’s Humphrey Coliseum. [...]

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Mississippi State (11-5, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) displayed yet another impressive defensive performance Saturday afternoon at home in Humphrey Coliseum with a 60-49 victory over the visiting Bulldogs of Georgia (9-5, 0-1).
Leading State to the victory was all-America candidate Jamont Gordon, who notched 15 points on 6-of-12 shooting along with nine boards. Sophomore [...]

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Barry Stewart posted a career-high 24 points Sunday afternoon to help Mississippi State (8-5) to a physical 87-75 victory over the visiting Missouri Tigers at Humphrey Coliseum.
Stewart, who previously recorded a personal best 22 points against Auburn last season, shot 8-of-14 from the field and a perfect 5-of-5 from the charity stripe to [...]

MSU vs. Mizzou game moved to December 30th at 12:30 pm CT
As soon as the Bulldogs found out that they were going to the Liberty Bowl on December 29th, the athletic department began scrambling to get either the location or game time (or both) of the men’s basketball game against Mizzou changed.
It didn’t make sense [...]

Dawgsbite forum memeber DawgByDesign has delivered another great looking desktop background based on the 2007 Mississippi State Men’s Basketball schedule. There are 2 sizes of the image available: 1600 x 1200 for normal monitors and 1600 x 1050 for widescreen monitors. This should cover just about any screen size up to those numbers. Hit the [...]

Rick Stansbury’s team begins practice tonight in preparation for the 2007-2008 basketball season. There seems to be a lot of potential in the team this year. They are ranked #25 in the country by Dick Vitale in his pre-season Top 40 and Jamont Gordon is considered among the nation’s top guards by Gary Parrish.
The team [...]

The 2007-2008 MSU men’s basketball schedule has been released. The highlights of this season include an attractive 15-game home schedule and an apperance in the first Anaheim Classic over Thanksgiving weekend.
The Bulldogs open the season with a 3 game homestand against Louisana Tech, NIT runner-up Clemson and Tennessee Martin. Their first road trip takes [...]

The AP is reporting that two-time all-SEC forward Charles Rhodes has withdrawn his name from the NBA Draft in order to return to Mississippi State University for his senior season of competition. Rhodes made his announcement Monday on the final day that early entrants could pull out of next week’s NBA Draft.
“I have officially withdrawn [...]

The Daily Journal is reporting that MSU Assistant Coach Mark White has been tapped as the new head coach for East Mississippi Community College.
Mark White joined Stansbury’s staff in 2002, coming from Central Hardin High School in Kentucky. He was promoted to floor coach in 2004 after 3 years as coordinator of operations.
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