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Notre Dame's Arike Ogunbowale Crushes Mississippi State With Championship-Winning Three
For a while, it looked like today’s National Championship game would be an anticlimactic finale after both semifinals went to overtime on Friday. Mississippi State led Notre Dame 30-17 at the half, holding the Irish to just three points in the second quarter. But Notre Dame fought back and gave us a...

Teaira McCowan Is The Most Undeniable Player In Women's College Basketball<em></em>
COLUMBUS, OH — When Teaira McCowan grabbed her 23rd rebound of Mississippi State’s semifinal win over Louisville on Friday night, she just kept coming down with it—all the way to the floor. That’s a long way down for McCowan, who stands a muscular 6'7", but she wasn’t going to let this rebound get a...

Asia Durr, Teaira<em></em> McCowan, And A Few Other Reasons UConn Might Not Win It All
I get it, I do: You’re a fan of basketball, and this weekend has given you not one but two Final Fours watch. A choice appears. In one corner, an 11-seed underdog that might just do the dang thing and three high seeds that survived historically weird brackets; in the other, four No. 1 seeds, led by ...

Mississippi State Is Ready
For the first time since Pat Summitt stalked the sidelines, an SEC program has run the table throughout the regular-season conference slate, with Mississippi State completing its 16-0 run Sunday evening....

Report: Florida Gators To Hire Dan Mullen Away From Mississippi State
It won’t be the sexiest hire of this weekend—you can decide for yourself whether that honor should go to Chip Kelly at UCLA or Greg Schiano at Tennessee—but the Florida Gators are reportedly finalizing a deal to hire Dan Mullen away from Mississippi State, to replace the fired Jim McElwain....

Nick Fitzgerald Leaves Egg Bowl With Horrible, Horrible, Horrible Injury
Tonight’s Egg Bowl between Ole Miss and Mississippi State started off ugly and got literally ugly as Bulldogs quarterback Nick Fitzgerald left the game on a cart after suffering a truly horrifying leg injury that left ESPN’s broadcast scrambling to cut away. ...

Shot, Chaser: Morgan William And Mississippi State Are Planning Their Encore
It’s not that Mississippi State women’s basketball coach Vic Schaefer doesn’t have sufficient appreciation for The Shot. The floater that tiny Morgan William sank over the outstretched fingers of Connecticut’s Gabby Williams in last year’s NCAA Tournament gave the Bulldogs a 66-64 win, ended UConn’s...

The Mississippi State Fan Who Took His Revenge On Ole Miss And The Football Press
To most of the sports world, Steve Robertson’s role in the greatest spectacle in college football this year has been a small one. Robertson, a recruiting writer for the Mississippi State fan site Gene’s Page on Scout.com, is the guy who found The Call, a one-minute entry in the record of Ole Miss he...
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Mississippi State OT Buzzer-Beater Downs UConn, Ends 111-Game Winning Streak [UPDATE]
UConn is out of the NCAA tournament and its 111-game winning streak is over after Morgan William hit a buzzer-beater at the end of overtime to send Mississippi State to the women’s championship game by the score of 66-64....

Texas A&M's Playoff Hopes Sink With Upset To Mississippi State
A few days after Texas A&M was given the No. 4 spot in the year’s first College Football Playoff rankings—ahead of Washington, who is undefeated, and Louisville and Ohio State, who each matched A&M’s 7-1 record—they made sure they lost it, falling to unranked Mississippi State....

Mississippi State's Jeffery Simmons Found Guilty Of Malicious Mischief
Jeffery Simmons, the five-star Mississippi State recruit that was shown beating a woman on a video recording, had his day in court Tuesday. Simmons was found guilty of malicious mischief, pleaded no contest to the charge of simple assault, and had a charge of disturbing the peace dropped....

Mississippi State Coach Dan Mullen Has Family Issues
Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen wanted to talk about family at SEC Media Days yesterday, particularly when questions turned to five-star recruit Jeffrey Simmons. The freshman defensive end was hit with a one-game suspension in June, after video of him beating a woman emerged online. ...
