MSU Closes Out Regular-Season Hosting LSU; Three Seniors, 1963 Team To Be Recognized
The contest will be televised regionally by Raycom Sports with Dave Baker and former Vanderbilt standout Barry Booker set to handle the play-by-play and color analysis, respectively. The MSU-LSU game can also be heard on XM Satellite Radio Channel 231.
A limited number of $10 discounted tickets will go on sale beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Humphrey Coliseum box office. The tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.
Prior to the Saturday afternoon clash, MState senior players Charles Rhodes and Billy Begley, as well as senior manager Lan Ingram, will be recognized during ?Senior Day’ festivities. At halftime, Mississippi State will honor the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament team, as players and staff members from the 1962-63 MSU club return to campus for a special weekend of activities.
Coach Rick Stansbury’s 20-9 Bulldogs have secured the SEC West’s No. 1 seed in next week’s SEC Tournament to be held at
Individually, State is paced by the all-SEC tandem of junior Jamont Gordon (17.3 ppg, 6.2 rpg & 4.8 apg) and Rhodes (16.4 ppg, 7.7 rpg & 56% FGs). Currently, Gordon and Rhodes rank ninth and 11th on MSU’s all-time scoring list with 1,476 and 1,339 career points, respectively. Rhodes and Gordon also stand 14th and 15th in career rebounding at State with 648 and 634 boards, respectively. Earlier this week, Gordon moved into third place on the school’s all-time list with 455 career assists.
Guided by interim head coach Butch Pierre, a former three-year starting point guard at
Having won at LSU, 61-39, in their SEC opener in January, the Bulldogs are bidding for their first back-to-back season series sweeps over LSU since sweeping the Tigers five consecutive seasons from 1994 to 1998 under the guidance of former MSU head coach Richard Williams.