Sunday, November 20
Starkville
5:00 PM
Mississippi State
vs
#8 Texas
Top 10 Showdown Set For "StarkVegas Night" At The Hump On Sunday
November 19, 2016 | Women's Basketball
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A Top-10 showdown takes place inside Humphrey Coliseum Sunday evening as the No. 9 Mississippi State women's basketball team hosts No. 8 Texas for "StarkVegas Night."
Tip for the contest is set for 5 p.m. on the SEC Network, with doors opening at 3:30 p.m. Fans are encouraged to wear black as the Bulldogs push for a crowd of 10,000-plus for the second-straight season.
Tickets for the game cost $5 for adults, and MSU students are admitted free with a valid MSU ID. Admission is also free for high school students age 18 and under, and those tickets can be picked up at the coliseum box office when doors open on game day. Fans can purchase and print their $5 tickets at home via hailstate.com/tickets to avoid long lines. Every fan must have a ticket to enter.
The game will also be broadcast on WLZA-FM 96.1, and live audio will be available on www.hailstate.com.
"We have a huge non-conference game on Sunday," MSU head coach Vic Schaefer said. "We played at Texas last year and had a knock-down drag-out. Both of us had a hard time scoring. I'm glad we get to play them in Starkville this year. We don't have many non-conference games home games this year, so this will hopefully be a good weekend for us. The game is on national TV, and we should have a great atmosphere for our kids. They certainty deserve it.
"Texas is very, very talented. They have lots of All-Americans and are really talented. Coach (Karen) Aston and her staff do a tremendous job. We will have our hands full, no question about it."
All bags will be subject to search for games at Humphrey Coliseum this season. Backpacks, large carry bags, outside food or drink, smoking and weapons of any kind are prohibited.
The Bulldogs will be playing their second-straight game in the Magnolia State, but the first of the regular season at the Hump. MSU defeated Tulane in Biloxi 66-49 on Wednesday to improve to 3-0 on the year.
Tip for the contest is set for 5 p.m. on the SEC Network, with doors opening at 3:30 p.m. Fans are encouraged to wear black as the Bulldogs push for a crowd of 10,000-plus for the second-straight season.
Tickets for the game cost $5 for adults, and MSU students are admitted free with a valid MSU ID. Admission is also free for high school students age 18 and under, and those tickets can be picked up at the coliseum box office when doors open on game day. Fans can purchase and print their $5 tickets at home via hailstate.com/tickets to avoid long lines. Every fan must have a ticket to enter.
The game will also be broadcast on WLZA-FM 96.1, and live audio will be available on www.hailstate.com.
"We have a huge non-conference game on Sunday," MSU head coach Vic Schaefer said. "We played at Texas last year and had a knock-down drag-out. Both of us had a hard time scoring. I'm glad we get to play them in Starkville this year. We don't have many non-conference games home games this year, so this will hopefully be a good weekend for us. The game is on national TV, and we should have a great atmosphere for our kids. They certainty deserve it.
"Texas is very, very talented. They have lots of All-Americans and are really talented. Coach (Karen) Aston and her staff do a tremendous job. We will have our hands full, no question about it."
All bags will be subject to search for games at Humphrey Coliseum this season. Backpacks, large carry bags, outside food or drink, smoking and weapons of any kind are prohibited.
The Bulldogs will be playing their second-straight game in the Magnolia State, but the first of the regular season at the Hump. MSU defeated Tulane in Biloxi 66-49 on Wednesday to improve to 3-0 on the year.
SERIES BREAKDOWN
- Sunday's game will be the fourth between the two teams.
- Texas leads the series 2-1 following last season's 53-47 win in Austin (Dec. 2, 2015). The Longhorns also won 73-55 in the 2009 Paradise Jam after Mississippi State claimed a 71-63 victory in the opening round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament
- The two teams played a tightly-contested game last season in Austin, but a tough shooting night for MSU proved the difference as the Longhorns claimed the six-point win.
- Victoria Vivians led MSU with 12 points, while Breanna Richardson followed with eight.
- Imani Boyette paced Texas with 21 points and 10 rebounds. Brianna Taylor had nine points and Empress Davenport scored seven.
- Texas returns nine players, including two starters, from last year's team that advanced to the Elite Eight. Both Texas and MSU were in the Bridgeport Regional.
- The Longhorns are 1-1 this season, defeating Houston Baptist 98-46 on Wednesday after opening the year with a 71-59 setback at Stanford on Monday.
PROMOTIONS
- First 5,000 fans get free "StarkVegas Night" rally towels
- Fans can register to win the chance to shoot for $10,000
- Bully's Kidz Kourt – inflatables and games in Mize Pavilion (open 3:30 p.m. until tip)
- Maroon Memories – See the experiences at hailstate.com/memories.
- Free pizza for students
- Trustmark's Hail State Rewards jackpot for $100
- Parker-McGill's Full-Court Putt for the opportunity to win $5,000
- The food item of the game
- Basketball tic-tac-toe
BULLDOG BITES
- Mississippi State hosts one of three home non-conference games Sunday when No. 8 Texas comes to Humphrey Coliseum.
- The last time MSU hosted a Top-10 team in the pre-conference slate was against another Big 12 opponent, Baylor, in 2004-05.
- Mississippi State is 40-2 all-time in home openers, including 30-straight victories.
- MSU has now won 31 of its last 32 regular-season non-conference games going back to 2014-15. That tally includes 11-straight victories. The only setback came last season at Texas (47-53).
- State is 24-4 under Schaefer, 21-0 since 2013-14, in the month of November.
- Sunday's game is MSU's lone home game until Dec. 20. The Bulldogs will travel 17,190 miles before SEC play opens on Jan. 1.
- Mississippi State is ranked in the Top 10 of both polls. MSU remained at No. 10 in the Associated Press Top 25 while moving up to No. 9 in this week's USA Today Coaches Poll.
- The Bulldogs have been in the Associated Press poll for 38-straight weeks, the ninth-longest active streak in the nation. It is the third-longest active streak among SEC teams, rating behind only Kentucky (125) and South Carolina (75).
- State is 61-13 all-time at home under Vic Schaefer. The Bulldogs are 33-3 at the Hump since 2014-15, tied for the best home record in the SEC in that span.
- The Bulldogs are second in the SEC in scoring offense (87.0 ppg), field goal percentage (50%) and 3-point field goal percentage (44.2%).
- On the defensive end of the floor, State has forced 53 turnovers in its last two games. The Bulldogs enter Sunday third in the SEC in turnover margin with a +9.0 mark.
- Dominique Dillingham drew her 42nd-straight start of the season on Wednesday, while Victoria Vivians has started all 73 games of her career.
- Vivians paced the Bulldogs in scoring Wednesday, notching 17 points. She scored 26 first-half points against Maine last Saturday.
- Morgan William is two assists from breaking into MSU's career Top 10 and 152 from first.
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