Mississippi State

No. 25 Mississippi State enters its first true road game Friday. The Bulldogs are at Dayton coming off one of their best shooting performances Monday in a convincing win over Alcorn State while the Flyers have had a while to stew over their poor shooting in a loss to Oklahoma in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas.

A week will have elapsed since Dayton shot 29 percent in the second half -- falling apart after going on a 13-0 run to start the half -- in a 65-54 loss to the Sooners in the third-place game of the tournament.

After taking a 41-34 lead with 16:40 to play, the Flyers (4-2) scored two points on 1-of-14 shooting in the next 10 minutes as Oklahoma took the lead for good,…