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Mississippi State vs LSU SEC Tournament Preview & Prediction: Can the Bulldogs Flip the Switch?
Mississippi State is fine. It’s going to be in the NCAA Tournament, it’ll have its chance to go on a run when it really matters, and all the drama and inconsistency of the SEC season won’t matter a lick if it wins two games next week.
But WOW does this team need some positive vibes.
It lost four of its last five games, it can’t close, and the defense has gone bye-bye. Now is the time to flip the switch and start playing up to its talent level. Oh, that one win in the gloom of the last few weeks?
LSU.
The Tigers have lost five straightand ten of their last 12. This truly is a win-or-season-over scenario. The have to win the SEC title to go to the NCAA Tournament.
Mississippi State vs LSU: How to Watch
Date: March 12, 2025
Venue: Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN
TV: SEC Network, 7:00 pm
Records: Mississippi State (20-11), LSU (14-17)
Why LSU Will Win
LSU, crank up the tempo and pace however you’re able to do it.
Mississippi State is more than capable of keeping up, but it has a strange way of not coming through in the clutch, the three-point defense has been missing, and don’t make me go through the stats again about how the program is 0-for-the-last-several-years when allowing more than 84 points.
How bad is this? Mississippi State 333rd in the nation in three point defense, the D as a whole has allowed 48% or more shots being made in four of the last five games, and …
Why Mississippi State Will Win
The LSU offense is awful.
Take a guess who that one team was over the last five games that had a bad shooting night against the Bulldog defense.
LSU is miserable from three, it turns the ball over way too much, and its defense is awful allowing teams to hit 50% or better i two of the last three games and 40% or better in 13 of the last 14.
To keep hammering this home, Mississippi State needs to keep the score down a bit. LSU has only scored more than 80 twice in SEC play, but …
LSU vs Mississippi State Prediction
LSU wins when it scores.
It’s 13-0 this season when scoring 76 points or more, 0-16 when scoring fewer, and Mississippi State has allowed more than 76 points in four of its last five games.
But those were against the SEC teams with some pop and firepower. The Bulldog D will step up the intensity and clamp down fast. It won’t be quite as easy as the 81-69 win a few weeks ago, but finally, MSU will get a win again.
Prediction: Mississippi State 77, LSU 68
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Mississippi lawmakers face pressure to counter looming federal cuts to health care after punting this session
Wicker: Mississippi powered Artemis II
Published 4:00 pm Monday, April 20, 2026
For nine days this month, space travel captivated the world. Families gathered around their screens as four astronauts strapped into the Integrity spacecraft docked at the Kennedy Space Center. As the launch countdown ended, four Mississippi-tested RS-45 engines ignited, and the ground shook. Seven seconds later, the Integrity had liftoff. For six intense minutes, the RS-45 engines rocketed the crew into high Earth orbit, sending them on their historic lunar flyby mission.
Mississippi should take a bow. The four RS-45 engines were tested at our very own Stennis Space Center, where Mississippians have been ensuring the quality of rocket engines since the Apollo program. For eight years, engineers, safety managers, and logistics specialists from the state have tested the engines that powered the Integrity and will power future Artemis launches. Their work paid off, and the launch was a marvel of engineering. NASA leadership made special mention of the rocket engine burn, calling it “flawless.”
One Mississippian in particular helped make the mission a success. Hernando native Matthew Ramsey handled a great deal of responsibility as the mission manager for Artemis II. The Mississippi State University graduate helped set the focus for the mission and equip the astronauts and staff for the job. Matthew also served as the deputy of the Mission Management Team, the group of NASA staff that comes together just days before a launch. The team assumes the risks of the mission ahead, and they make tough calls during flight if challenges arise.
As the Artemis II journey progressed, the world could not stop watching. Our social media feeds were full of photos and videos beamed down from the heavens. They captured humorous situations, such as the astronauts adjusting to life without gravity or testing their plumbing skills.
We also witnessed moments of majesty. On the fifth day, the Integrity began using the Moon’s gravity to slingshot our astronauts back home. That trajectory led the crew around the Moon, farther from Earth than any humans have ever gone. As the explorers looked upon outer space, they captured stunning images. Among the most remarkable is Earthset, in which Commander Reid Wiseman photographed Earth as it appeared to fall below the horizon of the moon.
When their spacecraft returned to Earth’s atmosphere, the crew was traveling nearly 35 times faster than the speed of sound. Ten minutes later, a series of parachutes began opening. Eventually, the spacecraft’s speed fell to 20 miles per hour, and the crew splashed down into the Pacific Ocean.
Mississippi was once again there to assist. The astronauts were greeted by the USS John P. Murtha, a U.S. military vessel built in the Huntington Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula. The ship’s amphibious design was suited to welcome the space travelers home—equipped with a helicopter pad, medical facilities, and the communications system needed to locate and recover the astronauts safely. Crucially, the USS Murtha was built with a well deck, a sea-based garage that stored the Integrity on the journey to shore.
Artemis II was a resounding success, paving the way for planned future flights. When the Artemis program returns humans to the moon, Mississippi will be there every step of the way.
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