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Via Media Relations
Mississippi State’s basketball game with Winthrop, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 18, at Humphrey Coliseum, will tip off at 6 p.m. CT, university athletic officials announced Tuesday.
The game time was set to accommodate fans interested in attending the basketball game after Mississippi State’s football game that afternoon with Arkansas, which is slated for a [...]

Here is a preview on Mississippi State’s exhibition match with Oklahoma City University, published by OCU Athletics. The game is scheduled for today at The Hump with a 6:00 tip-off.
ABOUT THE STARS: OCU opened the season with an 82-36 victory over Hillsdale Baptist on Thursday night at Abe Lemons Arena.
B.J. Walker, a 6-foot-10 senior from [...]

M2M has announced the games that they will carry for the 2006-2007 Men’s Basketball Season.

Nov. 1 Wed. vs. Auburn-Montgomery (Exh.) Live Video and Audio
Nov. 4 Sat. Oklahoma City (Exh.) Live Video and Audio
Nov. 11 Sat. Nicholls State Live Video and Audio
Nov. 13 Mon. Loyola Marymount Live Audio, Delayed Video
Nov. 18 Sat. Winthrop Live Video and [...]

Mississippi State standouts Charles Rhodes and Jamont Gordon have been named second-team all-SEC by a preseason vote of the league’s head men’s basketball coaches. The announcement was made Monday by the SEC office headquartered in Birmingham.
Mississippi State ranked as one of four schools to have at least two players selected to the 17-man preseason all-conference [...]

Rob Harralson over at BulldogBlitz.com is reporting that Top-10 recruit Scotty Hopson, a small forward from Hopkinsville (Ky.) University Heights Academy has committed to Mississippi State, selecting the Bulldogs over several other schools, including Kentucky and Louisville.
When asked why he chose State:
I thought it was the best fit for me. Mainly playing time and things [...]

For those of you who use Google Calendar or any program that supports the iCal Format, I have worked up the MSU Men’s Basketball Schedule into a shared calendar.
If you use Google Calendar, just click the link below to add this calendar to yours.

If you use a program that suppors the iCal format (Outlook, Apple [...]

The 2006-07 men’s basketball schedule has been updated to reflect the games that have already been selected for television. Among them are the November 21 game at Clemson, December 11 at Miami and the SEC opener against Tennessee in Knoxville.
You can see the full schedule on the athletic department website.
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ADDOTSFORD, BC, Canada - All-SEC standouts Charles Rhodes and Jamont Gordon each posted double-doubles to help lead Mississippi State to a convincing 91-68 win over University College of the Fraser Valley Saturday afternoon to successfully tip off its Labor Day weekend of basketball competition in Canada. 
A second-team all-conference performer a year ago as a sophomore, [...]

CBS Sportsline is reporting that Mississippi State has suspended senior Dietric Slater for violating team rules. Slater will miss the first half of the season and the first two SEC games of the second half of the season before returning to the line-up for the game against Kentucky on January 13.
Slater was set to be [...]

Via Media Relations
View the Men’s Basketball Schedule Online
STARKVILLE, Miss. - For the second consecutive year, a school-record 16 regular-season home games highlight Mississippi State University’s 2006-07 men’s basketball schedule, as announced this week by MSU Director of Athletics Larry Templeton.
In addition, MSU’s competitive 2006-07 men’s basketball slate will feature 17 outings against opponents that participated [...]

Football has barely gotten started at State and CollegeHoops.net is already previewing our men’s basketball team as part of their 144 Teams in 144 Days. Their final thoughts on or team this year?
The Bulldogs are a little slim up front.  Dietric Slater and Jamont Gordon are solid wing players, but Gordon may need to move [...]

Via Media Relations
STARKVILLE, Miss. - For the second consecutive year, Mississippi State University will be represented in the 106th United States Amateur Golf Championship. Rising senior Greg Huxman qualified for the event at the Don Shula Hotel and Golf Club near his hometown of Miami, Fla. He fired a two-day total of 139 to advance [...]

Ian Rapoport is back in action after a quick vacation and jumps right into it with some news from the SEC Basketball Coaches conference call. According to Ian, Stansbury says that all of the incoming freshmen are eligible and already on campus.
Stansbury said all his freshmen signees have qualified academically and are on campus for [...]

MSU Senior Chris McNeil (OC) has “agreed to terms” with Miami in a free agency deal, along with 4 other college players: Tennessee RB Gerald Riggs Jr., Colorado State QB Justin Holland, and Florida State DB Sam McGrew.
Via Sun-Sentinel
Looking Back
The Commercial Appeal wrote a great profile article on McNeil before the start of the [...]

Six MSU football players have plead guilty to assaulting an off-duty police officer.
Cornerback Derek Pegues, safety Keith Fitzhugh, offensive tackle Michael Gates, quarterback Tray Rutland and defensive ends Charles Burnes and Quinton Wesley _ all freshmen _ were each fined $500 and received six-month suspended sentences for misdemeanor simple assault.
There has been no word from [...]