Happy New Year and happy new season, too, as Ben Howland put it. Mississippi State basketball starts SEC play tonight, hosting Texas A&M in The Hump, the start of the second “season within a season” for Howland and the Bulldogs.
While so many of us were away Belking and Christmasing the last few weeks, MSU quietly went on a nice run to end the non-conference slate, going 6-2 in the last eight games and winning the last three in a row.
With a few weeks of news to catch up on and a big game tonight, we’ll run this as more of a notebook-style approach, reviewing some of the newsy nuggets of the day for MSU basketball.