Archive for the 'SEC' Category
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Via Athletic Media Relations
On an emotional Senior Day, Mississippi State senior Charles Rhodes capped a tremendously successful career in Humphrey Coliseum by scoring a team-high 27 points to lead the 25th-ranked Bulldogs (21-9, 12-4 Southeastern Conference) to an 84-75 home victory over the visiting LSU Tigers (13-17, 6-10) in the regular-season closer for both teams.
The [...]
Posted in Basketball, MSU, Mississippi State, NCAA, News, SEC | No Comments »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
The latest NCAA Men’s Basketball Polls are out and Mississippi State re-enters the Coaches Poll at number 25 but are the #2 team out of the AP Top 25.
In other news, Bracketology has been updated over at ESPN.com, and we have moved up a little. We were in an 8/9 matchup in Little Rock for [...]
Posted in Basketball, MSU, Mississippi State, NCAA, News, SEC | No Comments »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Spurred by last week’s career-best, 30-point performance against Auburn, Mississippi State senior forward Charles Rhodes has been named the SEC Men’s Basketball Player of the Week. The announcement was made Monday by the league office headquartered in Birmingham.
With his first-ever weekly league honor, Rhodes becomes the third different Bulldog player this season to garner the [...]
Posted in Basketball, MSU, Mississippi State, News, Player Profiles, SEC | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Senior Charles Rhodes recorded a career-high 30 points Wednesday evening to help Mississippi State (19-8, 10-3 Southeastern Conference) secure at least a share of its fourth SEC Western Division title in the past six years with a 89-78 triumph over the visiting Auburn Tigers (14-12, 4-9).
Tonight’s defeat of the Tigers marked the 13th win in [...]
Posted in Basketball, MSU, Mississippi State, News, SEC | No Comments »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
The Birmingham News is doing an extended feature on the SEC in honor of its 75th Anniversary. In this past Sunday’s paper, they published a list of the greatest voices of the SEC. Jack Cristil was number 4.
Cristil has been Mississippi State’s voice since 1953, spanning 10 football coaches, nine school presidents and eight athletics [...]
Posted in MSU, Mississippi State, News, SEC | No Comments »
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
In the first overtime contest of the season for either team, the Mississippi State Bulldogs (18-8, 9-3 Southeastern Conference) posted their first win over the South Carolina Gamecocks (12-14, 4-8) in their last four matchups Saturday afternoon with a 61-56 road victory.
With just 1.1 seconds remaining in regulation and MSU down 50-47, sophomore Ben Hansbrough [...]
Posted in Basketball, MSU, Men, Mississippi State, News, SEC, Sports | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Jamont Gordon contributed at least 20 points for the 11th time this season but could not lift Mississippi State (17-8, 8-3 Southeastern Conference) to a win Wednesday night, as the Bulldogs fell 74-63 on the road to in-state rival Ole Miss (18-7, 4-7).
Gordon also claimed six rebounds in the loss, as fellow co-captain Charles Rhodes [...]
Posted in Basketball, MSU, Mississippi State, News, SEC | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I get an email in my inbox every morning from Google News that has any story from the last 24 hours that mentions Mississippi State in one way or another. I am going to try to start sharing those links here as much as possible starting today.
So here we go.
Chris Talbott of the Sun Herald [...]
Posted in Baseball, Basketball, Coach Polk, Football, MSU, Mississippi State, News, Ron Polk, SEC, Sports | No Comments »
Friday, February 15th, 2008
The SEC Coaches Baseball poll is out and it looks like Vanderbilt is picked to win the SEC outright. Ole Miss is picked to win the West with MSU picked second. Here is the full run down.
WESTERN DIVISION
1. Ole Miss 65 (10)
2. Mississippi State 47
3. Arkansas 39 (2)
4. Auburn 34
5. Louisiana State 33
6. Alabama 29
EASTERN [...]
Posted in Baseball, MSU, Mississippi State, News, SEC | No Comments »
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Co-captains Jamont Gordon and Charles Rhodes each recorded a double-double as the Mississippi State Bulldogs (16-7, 7-2 Southeastern Conference) cruised past the Auburn Tigers (12-10, 2-7) by a final score of 83-64 in their third in-conference road victory Saturday night on the road.
State has now posted wins over Auburn in 12 of the teams’ last [...]
Posted in Basketball, Coach Stansbury, MSU, Men, Mississippi State, News, Rick Stansbury, SEC, Sports | No Comments »
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Mississippi State has garnered its third and highest preseason national ranking in baseball, picked 23rd in the USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 coaches’ poll.
The Bulldogs, who begin preseason practice Feb. 4 in advance of a Feb. 22 season-opening three-game series Feb. 22-24 at the University of North Florida, were previously ranked 24th by Collegiate Baseball newspaper [...]
Posted in Baseball, Coach Polk, MSU, Mississippi State, NCAA, News, Ron Polk, SEC | No Comments »
Monday, January 21st, 2008
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, [...]
Posted in Basketball, MSU, Mississippi State, News, SEC | No Comments »
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Basketball, MSU, Mississippi State, News, SEC | No Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Via Athletic Media Relations
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 [...]
Posted in Basketball, Coach Stansbury, MSU, Mississippi State, Rick Stansbury, SEC | No Comments »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
The SEC announced its 2007 SEC All-Freshman Team for football today. Mississippi State freshman QB Wesley Carroll was listed as the QB for this freshman team voted on by coaches.
Carroll stepped in during the Auburn game after Michael Henig broke his hand and led the Bulldogs to a 7-5 record, including wins over Alabama and [...]
Posted in Football, MSU, Mississippi State, News, SEC | No Comments »