Twenty years ago this March, perhaps the greatest run in the history of Mississippi State sports took place as the Bulldog basketball team blazed their historic path to the 1996 Final Four.
At the same time, the greatest mine of Mississippi sports knowledge, Rick Cleveland, was the columnist for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. Now the Executive Director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, Cleveland followed MSU from Starkville to New York City that season, with several stops in between. It’s through his eyes this story is told, re-living the most iconic postseason run in over 100 years of Mississippi State athletics.