The goal of the offseason is to get better. Obviously.
The goal of a new coaching staff is, again, to get better. Clearly.
With those two combining the last couple months, it seems Mississippi State basketball is doing exactly what those around the program have wanted it to: gotten better.
“It already feels different now,” senior guard Craig Sword told reporters last week, speaking for the first time all summer.
Sword, as one might imagine, appears as if he will be one of the big benefactors of Ben Howland’s hiring as MSU’s new head coach, as well as the arrival of heralded freshman point guard Malik Newman.