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State women with a big 4-3 win over Alabama in softball on the road to win 2 of 3 over the Tidewomen.

Give credit where credit is due. Texas with two big hits in the 7th and the left fielder saved the game with a great catch in the bottom of the 7th. Otherwise State played a solid game today. Disappointing loss but not disappointed in our players. They played well.

Ole Miss looks good and depending on the match up has good chance to be playing the second weekend of The Tournament. I think we have beat the State horse to death and back again and then again. Just don’t get the inconsistency and the lack of shooting from players who seemingly have the talent to make a higher percentage of shots. Plus our FT shooting is atrocious outside Hubbard. I do think the Clary injury did hurt this team in that he was a true PG. While we have a good number of good ball handlers, we don’t have a true PG.,

Why not pitch Simmons at the start of the 7th inning and let him finish it out? Certainly a competitive game and I like our fight in the 9th inning but it should have never come to that.

Ole Miss should crush Arkansas. They were lucky to win their last two games.

Good win in that our bench played a lot of minutes. After the beatdown we took from Missouri we better come out focused and ready tomorrow night.

Well I did not want to create a new topic but State’s softball team started conference play with a three game sweep over Auburn. So a good start for the Diamond Lady Dogs. Ole Miss with a solid 2 of a 3 over R-Can-Saw. A good weekend for our Women teams. And again with OK now in the fold, the SEC is loaded in softball just like baseball and basketball.

I would agree with you. We are a good team in a league with a number of great teams and even more really good teams. A top 30 team but this year in the SEC that means we are about 10th best which is where we finished. Most certainly we are a flawed team that is capable. While Matthews has always been one of our favorite players, his poor FT shooting has cost us in close games. And he does so much so well and his effort is off the charts. And we all know he works on it to be better. But some guys just don’t have that right touch on FT’s. Kugel is another example of a player very capable but he missed two crucial FT’s against TX and then had his late shot blocked Saturday. Still a good amount of talent on this team but they have not played a complete great game since Memphis (TBTH). We have had some really good games but even in some of our better victories State did not play its best basketball. I have no idea what will happen this week or in the following week. I can see a couple of wins this week as a possibility. Or 1-1. I do think we should beat LSU but even that is not a given. But the Tournament is total crap shoot. We can lose the first game by 25 and limp home or we could win a couple of games as well. But who knows?

LSU& Missouri are must wins for State. Period. The last two games for State prove that you can’t start playing basketball in the last 10 minutes of a game. Ole Miss is playing well at this juncture. Today’s game was mostly expected as Florida maybe the best team in the country.

State women were losing 46-32. Went on a 35-1 run. How does that even happen?

Both State basketball squads seem to have the same mentality. Mediocre against the weak teams. Women looked awful in the first half but have a twenty point lead in the fourth quarter against a bad Mizzou team. Sets up a match up with Ole Miss tomorrow. Gotta give OM the edge. State turns the ball over way too much and we are way too inconsistent.

Hard to figure out this State team. Score zero runs against USM two weeks ago. Tonight score three TD’s alas missed all the XP’s though. USM scratched for a FG in both games and came out 1-1. Not bad for them at all. Have no clue about State. But glad for the win.

This team plays with no urgency even when we do play with urgency. Certainly not surprised since we have been a terrible team at home in conference play.

Might have a State-Ole Miss women’s match-up Thursday in the SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament. If State can beat Missouri Wednesday. Which might be doubtful since we lost to them in the regular season. We will see.

Awful weekend for State baseball. Losing two out of three gives us four OOC losses already. Hosting a Regional is just about out of the picture already. Even making a Regional may be a stretch at this point. Unless things turn North in a fast hurry. USM Tuesday is a must win. Period. Like I mentioned in the basketball thread. Playing a strong schedule is great but you still have to win games. Pressure is on to WIN. And win the next game.

Quote “Kudos to OM and MSU both for taking care of business against"lesser" teams today.” As Al Davis used to say “Just win baby” Does not have to be pretty. And Oklahoma is a better team than their 4-12 conference record indicates. I am just glad we were only down 2 at the half as State played horrible in the first half. Second half was much better. After starting 0-7 from three we hit 7 of our final 14. And regarding the Tournament, I just don’t see a SEC team getting into the big dance with less than a 8-10 conference record. Unless said team wins at least 2 or maybe 3 conference tournament games. Yes, you get credit for the tough schedule but at some point you have to win games. Just losing to a bunch of really good teams does not cut it. JMHO though.

He was a great coach and they won a NC under his tutelage. And were consistently a good regional bet year in and year out. One of the greatest comebacks ever for State came in the College Station Regional in 1998. State was facing elimination and was down 11-0 to Rice. Would have been easy to fold but the team battled back to win 15-14. Eventually went on to win the Regional and go to the CWS. I would suspect that game stuck in Coach Graham’s craw for a while. I mean what are the chances of a really good team blowing an 11-0 in baseball? Small, smaller and almost zero. Ironically, that is the only game we had played against Rice before yesterday.

Simply put, both teams need to beat the teams they are supposed to beat. Period. There is a giant problem if State and Ole Miss can’t beat two inferior teams at home today (LSU and Oklahoma). Forget about the Tournament and just win today.

14-3 State over Rice today. Rice is obviously not the program they used to be but nonetheless it was still a good win. Need to win all three this weekend to balance out losing to USM & Troy.

It is a bad loss but in the metrics not so much because OK was 13-0 in pre conference schedule with some good wins. Thus they have a decent RPI. But given the fact we have been a good road team, it is absolutely a game we should have won. We just seemed a step slow today. OK played with much urgency than we did. And when we finally did so, it was too late.

Certainly what I was afraid of. There are no easy games in the SEC. And when you are playing a team that has lost 5 straight, it is a dangerous situation. Credit to Oklahoma as they totally outplayed State today.

Every game is important right now. State absolutely has to take care of business today. Oklahoma has been struggling but you can never take anything for granted. Playing at Vandy is always tricky plus the fact that they are a decent team. I think Ole Miss will come out and play well today. The off day came at a good time.

State eeeks out a 3-1 win over Mizzou State. As Al Davis would say “just win baby” And that is what this was. A win!!!

Too early to tell but it was very good last night. Just played poor defensively and did not get any timely hits.

Pitching duel at USM which was not surprising given the weather and early in the season. State gives up one earned run and USM pitched it really well. State’s defense was awful with four errors. Overall not a terrible loss for State but obviously a good win for USM.