Sunday, December 3
Chattanooga, Tenn.
1 P.M.
Mississippi State
at
UT Chattanooga
No. 21/21 Mississippi State Travels To Face Chattanooga
December 02, 2023 | Women's Basketball
STARKVILLE – No. 21/21 Mississippi State women's basketball travels for its second road contest of its early schedule when it takes on Chattanooga on Sunday inside McKenzie Arena at 1:00 p.m. CT on ESPN+.
GAME INFORMATION
Mississippi State (8-1) vs. Chattanooga (7-1)
Date:Â Sunday, Dec. 3 |Â Time:Â 1:00 p.m. CT
Location:Â Chattanooga, Tenn. (McKenzie Arena)
Watch:Â ESPN+
Listen:Â MSU Radio Network - Starkville 96.1Â (Play-By-Play: Jason Crowder)
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Fans not in attendance can follow action on ESPN+ or through their affiliate radio station with play-by-play Jason Crowder. Live statistics throughout the contest will be available through the sidearm statistics link attached above.
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Sunday marks the seventh overall contest of the series between Mississippi State and Chattanooga and the first since 2016. The series is tied 1-1 in Chattanooga, where Mississippi State last played on Jan. 4, 1987 in a 79-64 win. This will be the first Southern Conference opponent that Mississippi State has faced under head coach Sam Purcell and the first overall since Nov. 21, 2018 when Mississippi State beat Furman 106-41 inside Humphrey Coliseum. Purcell is from Dalton, Ga. which is about 30 miles away from Chattanooga.
Chattanooga is off to a 7-1 start this season under second-year head coach Shawn Poppie. The Mocs are led by a pair of double-digit scorers in graduate student guard Jada Guinn and sophomore forward Raven Thompson. Guinn is currently averaging a team-high 17.3 points per game and has scored 10-plus points in all eight of the Mocs' contests, while reigning Southern Conference Freshman of the Year Raven Thompson adds 14.8 points and a team-high 7.4 rebounds per game.Â
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Mississippi State enters the contest 8-1 on the season and 21-4 overall against non-conference opponents under Purcell. Mississippi State is 1-0 on the road this season and 4-0 overall outside of Humphrey Coliseum after a four-game stretch in which a late putback by senior guard Darrione Rogers lifted the Bulldogs in tightly contested battle at Belmont prior to a dominant three-game round-robin performance at the 2023 Van Chancellor Classic over three days during Thanksgiving break.Â
After starting the season 8-0, Mississippi State earned the No. 21 spot in both the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Top-25 polls after the final poll was released Tuesday.
Mississippi State is moving the ball well offensively over its latest stretch. The Bulldogs have recorded three games of 20-plus assists this season, which have all come over the last four contests, and finished with 21 assists on 24 made field goals last time out against Miami (Fla.). The Bulldogs have recorded nine games of 20-plus assists under Purcell and are 8-1 in those games. Mississippi State ranks 31st nationally and second in the SEC with 17.8 assists per game and 17th nationally with a +1.43 assist/turnover ratio as of Dec. 1. Graduate student guard Lauren Park-Lane is third nationally with 57 total assists, 14th nationally with 6.3 assists per game and 23rd nationally with a +3.4 assist/turnover ratio.
Mississippi State is one of the most disclipined teams in the nation in terms of bailing out its opponent as the Bulldogs rank second nationally with only 11.0 fouls per game.
Park-Lane is only six points shy of 2,000 for her career. Her 1,994 points in Division I is ninth among active players, while her 755 career assists ranks second. Park-Lane and Iowa's Caitlyn Clark are the only two players to rank top-10 in both categories in terms of active players.
Park-Lane has the led the team in assists in eight of her first nine games at Mississippi State. She finished with 20 points and 10 assists in 39 minutes against Miami (Fla.) and now has five 20-plus points and 10-plus assists performances in her career, in addition to 15 career point-assist double-doubles and 17 contests with 10-plus assists. She is converting on 52.3 percent from the field - +11.9 percent higher than her career average - and has scored double figures in each and recorded 38 assists over the last four games compared to finishing in double figures once and totaling 19 assists over the first five games.
GAME INFORMATION
Mississippi State (8-1) vs. Chattanooga (7-1)
Date:Â Sunday, Dec. 3 |Â Time:Â 1:00 p.m. CT
Location:Â Chattanooga, Tenn. (McKenzie Arena)
Watch:Â ESPN+
Listen:Â MSU Radio Network - Starkville 96.1Â (Play-By-Play: Jason Crowder)
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Fans not in attendance can follow action on ESPN+ or through their affiliate radio station with play-by-play Jason Crowder. Live statistics throughout the contest will be available through the sidearm statistics link attached above.
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Sunday marks the seventh overall contest of the series between Mississippi State and Chattanooga and the first since 2016. The series is tied 1-1 in Chattanooga, where Mississippi State last played on Jan. 4, 1987 in a 79-64 win. This will be the first Southern Conference opponent that Mississippi State has faced under head coach Sam Purcell and the first overall since Nov. 21, 2018 when Mississippi State beat Furman 106-41 inside Humphrey Coliseum. Purcell is from Dalton, Ga. which is about 30 miles away from Chattanooga.
Chattanooga is off to a 7-1 start this season under second-year head coach Shawn Poppie. The Mocs are led by a pair of double-digit scorers in graduate student guard Jada Guinn and sophomore forward Raven Thompson. Guinn is currently averaging a team-high 17.3 points per game and has scored 10-plus points in all eight of the Mocs' contests, while reigning Southern Conference Freshman of the Year Raven Thompson adds 14.8 points and a team-high 7.4 rebounds per game.Â
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Mississippi State enters the contest 8-1 on the season and 21-4 overall against non-conference opponents under Purcell. Mississippi State is 1-0 on the road this season and 4-0 overall outside of Humphrey Coliseum after a four-game stretch in which a late putback by senior guard Darrione Rogers lifted the Bulldogs in tightly contested battle at Belmont prior to a dominant three-game round-robin performance at the 2023 Van Chancellor Classic over three days during Thanksgiving break.Â
After starting the season 8-0, Mississippi State earned the No. 21 spot in both the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches Top-25 polls after the final poll was released Tuesday.
Mississippi State is moving the ball well offensively over its latest stretch. The Bulldogs have recorded three games of 20-plus assists this season, which have all come over the last four contests, and finished with 21 assists on 24 made field goals last time out against Miami (Fla.). The Bulldogs have recorded nine games of 20-plus assists under Purcell and are 8-1 in those games. Mississippi State ranks 31st nationally and second in the SEC with 17.8 assists per game and 17th nationally with a +1.43 assist/turnover ratio as of Dec. 1. Graduate student guard Lauren Park-Lane is third nationally with 57 total assists, 14th nationally with 6.3 assists per game and 23rd nationally with a +3.4 assist/turnover ratio.
Mississippi State is one of the most disclipined teams in the nation in terms of bailing out its opponent as the Bulldogs rank second nationally with only 11.0 fouls per game.
Park-Lane is only six points shy of 2,000 for her career. Her 1,994 points in Division I is ninth among active players, while her 755 career assists ranks second. Park-Lane and Iowa's Caitlyn Clark are the only two players to rank top-10 in both categories in terms of active players.
Park-Lane has the led the team in assists in eight of her first nine games at Mississippi State. She finished with 20 points and 10 assists in 39 minutes against Miami (Fla.) and now has five 20-plus points and 10-plus assists performances in her career, in addition to 15 career point-assist double-doubles and 17 contests with 10-plus assists. She is converting on 52.3 percent from the field - +11.9 percent higher than her career average - and has scored double figures in each and recorded 38 assists over the last four games compared to finishing in double figures once and totaling 19 assists over the first five games.
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