Mississippi State coach Vic Schaefer used a baseball analogy of what wins between good pitching versus good hitting to describe his NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament second round showdown with Michigan State.
That proverbial question will be answered as the 15th-ranked Bulldogs’ battle-tested defense squares off against the high-scoring offense of the No. 16 Spartans today at 1:30 p.m. on ESPN2.
“There’s all kinds of philosophies on which one of those wins,” Schaefer said. “I don’t know which one is going to win (today), good offense or good defense. But we’re going to try to have both.