120 years ago Mississippi State won their first ever SEC Tournament Championship, and did so by beating the mightly Kentucky Wildcats, 84-73.
The first thing I’ll say about this game is that Kentucky went on to win the 1996 National Championship. So they were a legitimate #1 team, it was late in the season and for the SEC Tournament Championship. Up to that point, Kentucky had won 20 of the 36 SEC Tournaments; the school with the second most was Alabama with six.
Since the SEC Tourney had been reinstated in 1979, MSU had a miserable 4-17 record.