No. 3 MSU Seeks To Match SEC Wins Record Sunday At Ole Miss

STARKVILLE, Miss. – Third-ranked Mississippi State has the opportunity to tie the school single-season SEC wins record for the third-straight year Sunday as it travels to Oxford to face Ole Miss.

The contest from The Pavilion at Ole Miss tips at 3 p.m. on the SEC Network.

WKBB-FM 100.9 will have the radio call in the Golden Triangle, while WCNA-FM 95.9 will carry the game in the Tupelo, Corinth and Oxford areas. A free live audio stream will be available on www.hailstate.com/plus or the TuneIn app.

Mississippi State (24-1 overall, 10-1 SEC) heads to Oxford seeking to match the 2014-15 and 2015-16 teams for the most league wins in school history with 11. The Bulldogs are also 10-1 on the road this season, including 4-1 in conference games.

State is riding the momentum of an 86-41 home victory against Vanderbilt on Thursday, the second-largest SEC win ever for the program. Victoria Vivians led the way with 21 points in 20 minutes of action. Roshunda Johnson added her SEC high with 17, while Breanna Richardson tallied 12 on a night she was honored during pregame for reaching 1,000-career points.

MSU won its sixth straight in the series on Jan. 16, claiming a 73-62 win in Starkville behind 23 points from Vivians, 16 from Dominique Dillingham and 14 from Morgan William.

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"I was proud of our kids (Thursday). I thought they played really well and came out of the gate really hard and were focused. Vanderbilt has been in every game that they have played, and to come out and play as well as we did, I was pleased. Obviously, we are going into a game Sunday that means a lot to a lot of people. For us, it is the next one on the schedule. We have tried to, and done a really good job, of staying focused on the next task at hand. The next one is Mississippi over there. You don't typically have to get anyone's attention for this one. It's on the road. It is a Southeastern Conference game. We realize the challenge that it presents. We have to be ready to go over there and play well." — MSU Head Coach Vic Schaefer

SERIES VS. OLE MISS

Sunday's game is the second meeting of the season and 93rd overall between the teams. It is the 43rd meeting in Oxford. The Rebels lead 63-29, including 24-17 in Oxford.
The Bulldogs won their sixth straight and 14th in the last 17 with a 73-62 victory in Starkville on Jan. 16. Victoria Vivians led with 23 points, while Dominique Dillingham had 16 and Morgan William 14.
MSU won last year's game in Oxford, the first in The Pavilion, 60-51. Vivians tallied 22 points, while Dillingham and William had 12 and 10 points, respectively.

ABOUT THE REBELS

Ole Miss had a two-game win streak halted with a 62-51 home setback against LSU on Thursday. The loss dropped the Rebels to 13-2 at home this season.
Madinah Muhammad paces the Rebels with 13.2 ppg this season, while Shandricka Sessom tallies 12.3 ppg.
In SEC games, Muhammad tops the team with 12.5 ppg. Sessom raised her average to 12.2 ppg after scoring 14 against LSU.

NEXT UP FOR THE DAWGS

State heads back home Thursday to host Georgia in its next-to-last home game of the season.
Following that game against the Bulldogs, it will be back to the road for consecutive games at Texas A&M and Kentucky.

BULLDOG BITES

Mississippi State heads to Oxford 10-1 in SEC play. A win would tie the 2014-15 and 2015-16 teams for the school record for SEC wins in a season (11).
The Bulldogs won their 12th-straight game at home on Thursday, tying for the school record and the 11th-longest streak in the country.
MSU's 24 wins are tied for the third-most wins in program history.
Bulldog head coach Vic Schaefer is now six wins from claiming his 200th as a head coach.
State seniors Ketara Chapel, Dominique Dillingham, Chinwe Okorie and Breanna Richardson are now 101-30 (.771) since 2013-14, the second-most wins in the league in that span.
The Bulldogs are 32-11 (.744) in the SEC since 2014-15, the second-most wins in the league in that span. State has won 17 of its last 20 regular-season SEC games.
State earned a program-best No. 3 ranking in this week's USA Today Coaches Poll. It is No. 4 in the Associated Press poll. MSU has been in both polls for 50-straight weeks.
MSU's 45-point win against Vanderbilt is the second-largest margin of victory in an SEC game in school history. Vandy's 41 points are its second-fewest ever and the fewest State has allowed against an SEC foe since holding Georgia to 38 in the 2012-13 season.
State has forced 53 turnovers the last two games and out-scored Missouri and Vandy 59-6 off those turnovers.
State is hitting 44.3% (31 of 70) from 3-point range the last four contests.
The Bulldogs held the nation's No. 2 3-point shooting team to 26.7% on Thursday. State has held SEC opponents to 26.6% from the arc (33 of 124). For the season, foes are hitting 77 of 300 (25.7%), the No. 4 3-point defense in the nation.
In SEC play, the Bulldogs are in the Top 3 in the conference in 14 statistical categories.
MSU has led wire-to-wire 11 times and trailed by more than two possessions in three games.
Victoria Vivians' 21-point effort on Thursday moved her into fifth on MSU's career scoring list (1,546 points).
Seven of Vivians' eight 20-point games this season have come in the last 13 contests.
This week Vivians was named to the Naismith Trophy Top 30 and the Wooden Award Late Season Top 20.
Morgan William dished eight assists Thursday, giving her 7.2 apg the last five contests. She has 36 assists to just five turnovers in that stretch.
William's 4.1 assist/turnover ratio in SEC games is tops in the league.
Senior Breanna Richardson is averaging 12.5 ppg her last two games.
Junior Roshunda Johnson returned to action and had her best SEC scoring performance with 17 points.
Johnson is averaging 10.0 ppg the last five games, hitting 9 of 14 (64.3%) from 3-point range.

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No. 3 MSU Seeks To Match SEC Wins Record Sunday At Ole Miss

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