STARKVILLE, Miss. — Two unbeaten, high-scoring women’s basketball teams meet Wednesday, Nov. 11, when Mississippi State hosts Troy at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville. Tipoff is set for 6:30 p.m. CT (7:30 p.m. ET), and the game streams on SECN+ with radio coverage on the MSU Radio Network.
Both teams are 2-0. The Bulldogs beat North Alabama 68-27 to open the season, holding the Lions to the fewest points a visitor has scored in a season or home opener in school history, and then rolled past UT Martin 114-68 on Sunday. The 114 points are the most a Mississippi State team has ever put up in a road game and the fifth-highest total in program history, and the Bulldogs shot 60 percent from the field and 50 percent from three.
Favour Nwaedozi has been the engine, with 21 points and 14 rebounds against UT Martin for her fifth straight double-double, dating to last season. Cali Smallwood added 17 points, Reese Beaty posted the first double-double of her career, 12 points plus a career-best 10 assists, and Tootie Lockett scored 15 off the bench. Mississippi State averages 91 points a game, 28th in the country.
Troy comes in ranked 11th nationally at 96.5 points a game. The Trojans won at Kent State 89-78 and then beat Thomas 104-36 at home. Three of their top five scorers are first-year players, led by Hannah Smith at 19 points a game, followed by Aniya Hubbard (15), Tiauna King (13) and Saniya Jackson (12). Coach Chanda Rigby is in her 15th season at Troy, and the program has scored 100 or more points in 40 games since she took over.
Mississippi State leads the all-time series 14-3 and has won eight of the last 10 meetings. Troy did take the most recent one, 73-66, on Dec. 18, 2021, while the Bulldogs’ last win came Dec. 14, 2020, by a 103-76 score. Tickets are available at hailstate.com/tickets.
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