Tickets On Sale For Bulldogs? SEC/AAC Challenge Contest
September 30, 2015 | Women's Basketball
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Tickets are now available for fans to venture to Jacksonville, Fla., to support Mississippi State women's basketball as it faces South Florida on Dec. 30 in the SEC/AAC Challenge.
The contest opens a two-game slate at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, site of the 2016 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament. Tip is set for 3:30 p.m. CT on the SEC Network.
Tickets for the contest are $15 for adults, $10 for youth (ages 2-12) and $13 each for groups of 20 or more. They can be purchased at the Veterans Memorial Arena box office or online at www.jacksonvillesportscouncil.com.
The contest features two squads receiving high preseason praise. The Bulldogs, coming off a historic 2014-15 season, earned a No. 6 national ranking by Athlon Sports and No. 8 rating in this year's Lindy's Sports preseason publication. Those rankings followed a No. 11 ranking in Charlie Creme's Way-Too-Early Top 25 that was released in April.
The Bulldogs, under the guidance of SEC Coach of the Year Vic Schaefer, return four starters and 10 letterwinners from a 2014-15 edition that set school records for overall (27) and SEC (11) wins to claim the program's first NCAA Tournament nod since 2010.
The Bulldogs finished that campaign No. 12 in the final Associated Press poll, the best finish by a Bulldog squad, after making an SEC-record 10-spot jump to third in the SEC standings.
USF enters the season No. 22 by Lindy's and No. 23 by Athlon. The Bulls return all five starters from last year's team that finished second behind UConn in the AAC and earned an NCAA Tournament nod.
Season tickets for Mississippi State's 16-game home slate, which kicks off Nov. 13 at home against Samford, also remain on sale. Reserved season tickets (sections 114-118) cost $95 each, while general admission tickets are priced at $35.
Fans can order tickets for the Bulldogs' 16-game home slate online at www.hailstate.com/tickets or via phone at 1-888-GO-DAWGS.
Hail State Hoops expects to be a hot ticket once again following a 2014-15 campaign that saw a school-record 67,598 fans attend games at Humphrey Coliseum.
In the regular-season finale, a 55-47 win against Ole Miss, the Bulldogs had 7,326 in the Hump, the largest crowd ever to watch a women's college basketball game in the state of Mississippi.
