STARKVILLE, Miss. — The Mississippi State women’s basketball team won a second straight Southeastern Conference game, holding off the Vanderbilt Commodores on Sunday at home by a score of 70-63.
The Bulldogs were down two assistant coaches and only had seven available players for the game, which is the minimum number of scholarship players allowed to proceed with the game. SEC leading scorer and John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 list nominee Rickea Jackson was unavailable for the second straight tilt, and graduate forward Raven Farley was also ruled out for the game.
MSU’s success during this dearth of player availability caught the eye of the NCAA, which recognized the Bulldogs squad as its team of the week.