Mississippi State Bulldogs
(The Jackson Daily News also tried to intimidate the Bulldogs against playing the Ramblers by prominently featuring pictures of the four black players on the front page of the paper.)Coach Babe McCarthy sneaked the team out of Starkville to travel to East Lansing, Michigan, to face Loyola University Chicago, only to lose to the Ramblers, who went on to win the title that year.Known as the "Game of Change", this was one of the first times that an all-white Deep South school faced a team with black members, and it is considered to be a watershed moment in the Civil Rights era.Boston Celtics great Bailey Howell played at Mississippi State and is the only MSU player to be in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.On February 16, 2010, a crowd of 10,788 fans watched the Bulldogs play host to #2 Kentucky, breaking the coliseum's attendance record.Nine Bulldogs have made the All-SEC team 16 times, and even more impressive, the women have earned 28 SEC honor roll memberships since 1990.The program is notable for ending the UConn Huskies record 111-game winning streak by beating them 66–64 in overtime in the Final Four of the 2017 NCAA Tournament.The buzzer-beater shot that put the Bulldogs in front of the Huskies came from the smallest player on the court, the 5-foot-5 inch junior, Morgan William.In 2007, Croom led the Bulldogs to regular season wins over Auburn, Alabama, and Ole Miss before defeating C-USA Champion UCF 10–3 in the Liberty Bowl.Overall, Mississippi State has produced 38 All-Americans, 171 All-SEC selections, and 124 NFL players, including 11 first-round draft picks.Mississippi State competes in the annual Battle for the Golden Egg against in-state archrival Ole Miss, while also maintaining rivalries with Alabama and Kentucky.During his time at MSU, Mullen led the Bulldogs to five bowl victories in, and five wins over in-state rival Ole Miss since his hiring.Mississippi State hired Joe Moorhead as its head coach after Mullen accepted the HC job at the University of Florida.In 2008 the ice hockey club garnered more than 1,200 fans at their first ever home games in Tupelo, Mississippi at the BancorpSouth Arena,[16] and followed in 2009 with nearly 5,000 in attendance for a series with Ole Miss.Clanging cowbells rung by many of the State fans is a part of the tradition of MSU football games, despite the SEC banning "artificial noise-makers" at conference games–a rule aimed at Mississippi State–from 1974 to 2010.That rule was finally lifted at the beginning of the 2010 season, initially on a trial basis, with cowbells only permitted to ring during halftime, timeouts, and after touchdowns.
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