MSU Hopes To Carry Momentum To Arkansas

Tuesday, January 10

Fayetteville, Ark.

8:00 PM

Mississippi State

Arkansas

Bulldogs continue SEC play in Arkansas

MSU Hopes To Carry Momentum To Arkansas

January 09, 2017 | Men's Basketball

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STARKVILLE, Miss. — Following its most impressive win of the season at LSU, Mississippi State aims for its second-straight road win Tuesday at Arkansas.

Tip is set for 8 p.m. at Bud Walton Arena, with Adam Amin and Jon Sundvold handling the SEC Network broadcast. The game can also be heard on the MSU radio network with veterans Jim Ellis and Richard Williams on the call.

MSU stands at 10-4 on the season, 1-1 in league play. In the 95-78 win at LSU, Aric Holman paced the Bulldogs 17 points and 9 rebounds, while New Orleans native Lamar Peters added 15 points and 5 assists.

The Razorbacks enter the contest 12-3, 1-2, following their 97-71 setback at Kentucky on Saturday.

THE SERIES
Arkansas leads the all-time series 33-26 and has won four in a row in Fayetteville.

COACHES
Ben Howland is in his second year at MSU and 21^st overall. As a head coach in four different stops, he is 425-227 with a 24-21 mark with the Bulldogs.

Mike Anderson is in his sixth year at Arkansas and owns a 114-67 ledger. Overall, he's 314-165 in 15 years.

QUOTABLE
"Coach said it's all about defense. We know they're a really good team, and when we came out here, we knew we'd have to stop them. We knew we needed to do the best we could on defense." — Schnider Herard on his team's defense LSU.

NEXT 2
Jan. 14 against Texas A&M and Jan. 17 against Kentucky, both at Humphrey Coliseum.

BULLDOG BITES

Mississippi State is looking to win back-to-back SEC road games for the first time since winning at Tennessee (Feb. 26) and at Arkansas (March 2) in 2011.
MSU is looking to snap a four-game losing streak at Arkansas. Last win was in 2011, 88-78.
Last Saturday, the Bulldogs won at LSU for the first time since 2011.
The 95 points scored were the most in SEC play since totaling 94 at home against LSU in 2009.
The 95 points on the road in SEC play were the most since MSU totaled 91 at Auburn in 1994.
Sophomore guard Quinndary Weatherspoon is fourth in the SEC with his 17.7 scoring clip. MSU hasn't had a player average 18-plus since Darryl Wilson in 1996 (18.0).
Quinndary Weatherspoon can do more than just score. This year, MSU is 4-0 when has three or more steals. He's third in the league with his 2.0 average.
I.J. Ready leads the SEC with his 2.9 assist/turnover ratio and is 36th nationally. He's now 184 points shy of becoming the 37th player at MSU to score 1,000 for a career. Against LSU, he had 8 assists to give him 3346 for his career, now the 9th most in school history. In addition, he is 8 steals shy of tying Darryl Wilson for the 10th most in school history.
KenPom.com has Mississippi State as the least experienced team of all 351 DI programs.
When is Mississippi State successful? When outrebounding foes (8-0), shooting 45 percent or better (8-0) and winning or being tied at the half (9-0).
Of current SEC players, I.J. Ready is 11th with 816 points, third with 132 steals and fourth with 346 assists.
Through 14 games, sophomore forward Aric Holman leads MSU with 32 blocked shots. Since Jarvis Varnado had 170 in 2010 as a senior, the most in a single season has been Colin Borchert with 36 in 2013. Last season, Gavin Ware had 32 for the entire year.
Among SEC freshmen, Lamar Peters is 11th in scoring (9.8), while Mario Kegler is 5th in rebounding (5.7).
Mississippi State has now used six different starting lineups through the first 14 games.