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Halftime
Miss. State 32
Auburn 23
State with a 19 point lead near midway through the 4th. I don't keep up a lot with women's basketball but looks like Purcell has a put together a good team this year.
We are up 64 to 45 against a much improved Auburn team. They have a new coach and are 11-3 with wins against Rutgers and Cal. This will be a good win! Go support this team.. yes we will make mistakes but goodness, this is our best team since the Vic Schaefer days
75-53 final. Good job ladies.
The 3 losses Auburn had were single digits losses. We won by 22! I hate to be that guy saying I told you so but.. we have a team! We will probably lose games later but I love what Purcell is doing.
Impressive to say the least. Balance scoring and holding any Sec team to 53 points and win by 22 is good!
Miss. State 75
Auburn 53
Freshman Jaylah Lampley with a Michael Jordan looking move on one of her layups. Lampley..wow.
Trayanna Crisp 17 points
Destiney Mcphaul 14 points, 2 steals
Madison Francis 12 points, 13 rebounds (double double)
Jaylah Lampley 11 points, 6 rebounds
Favour Nwaedozi 9 points, 13 rebounds
Chandler Prater 6 points, 5 rebounds
K. Richardson 6 points, 6 rebounds
the balanced scoring is unlike anything we have seen in quite some time, it gives us a chance almost any game
Great win as we absolutely had to have it considering the upcoming schedule. A few things to consider. This is the most points scored against Auburn, tied for holding them to their lowest output and by far the largest margin of victory. Previous gap was six points.
Very proud of how the team collected themselves during some rough times in the first half. Auburn did a good job speeding up the decision making and got us to rushing. The officiating in the first half was also terrible. However the team fought through it and were very composed as the game progressed.
Both issues that concerned me going into SEC (ballhandling and lack of size in the post) are still huge concerns. Oklahoma is going to exploit both. K Richardson came up big tonight on defense and she will have to do it again. However I do love the fire from the team and how they gathered themselves and handled business.
More Favour Nwaedozi recognization for this past week..
Favour Nwaedozi from Mississippi State has been named World Exposure Report Division 1 Women's Basketball National Player of the Week
How are they not ranked? Just terrible OOC?