Perhaps the much bigger story of the night came by way of a player who did not check back in off the bench for the game's final 20 minutes: guard Mark Sears. Oats said after the matchup that he hoped Sears' response was similar to what the team saw from Omoruyi when he was able to get back into the action.

Malik Dia’s 23 points, 19 rebounds and two blocks led No. 21 Mississippi to a 74-64 win over No. 4 Alabama on Tuesday.

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee Day, in honor of the Confederate general.

Josh Hubbard's two foul shots with 56.5 seconds left in overtime rescued No. 14 Mississippi State for a 65-60 victory over South Carolina after blowing a 14-point lead in the last nine minutes of regulation.

After a week spent on the SEC road, Mississippi State remained steady in the latest college basketball national rankings. The Bulldogs, 16-4 overall and 4-3 in the SEC, remained at No. 14 in Monday’s Associated Press Top 25 poll while moving up one spot in the USA Today Coaches poll.

Texas Tech made its Top 25 season debut at No. 22 after beating Cincinnati and Oklahoma State to run its Big 12 winning streak to four games. Vanderbilt entered the poll at No. 24 for the first time since Dec. 7, 2015, as the women's team also cracked the poll this week for the first time since 2014.

Here's where Mississippi State basketball ranks in this week's national polls after losing to Tennessee and beating South Carolina.

Most assuredly, these folks coming together to select and bracket this year’s 68-team field will have prepared for this moment. However, maybe it’s not from the conference they expected. When the Pac-12 cratered and moved teams to the Midwest and East Coast leagues,

We’re approaching the mid-way point of the conference season — and we’re seeing separation in several power conferences.

The best way to stop the Longhorns’ Red River stampede would seem to be the departure of Sarkisian. And unless Arch Manning is a bust, 2025 Texas football appears armed for another playoff assault.

ACC schedules in full are revealed Monday on ACC Network, but the opponents are known. This is a doozy for Mike Norvell's team. Florida State opens against Alabama, the first of four games against opponents ranked inside the top 20 of 247Sports rankings. One of the only positives for the Seminoles is not having to deal with 2024 ACC runner-up SMU.

LSU football secured a major recruiting win for the 2026 class on Saturday -- and beat out Alabama and Texas A&M for the 4-star.