State hangs on to beat USM 60-54
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They won the Sunbelt last year, but lost in the 1st round of their conference tournament & in 1st round of NIT.
They have zero wins this season.*
We have a player in Hubbard. Most already knew we did but he had a crappy shooting night and led us in scoring.
38% from the field and 54% from FT. A win’s a win, but picking up right where we left off I see
Mississippi State holds off Southern Miss, 60-54, in exhibition game
https://on3.com/teams/mississippi-s...te-holds-off-southern-miss-in-exhibition-game
https://on3.com/teams/mississippi-s...te-holds-off-southern-miss-in-exhibition-game
We made the NCAA Tournament last year.
If I'm not mistaken, 4 of the 5 projected starters played. Jeffries, Moore, Matthews, and Davis all played. Those 4 and Smith are the projected starting 5 as far as I know. Taylor and Murphy didn't play. Hope nothing is wrong with Taylor. I went to the open practice a couple of weeks ago and he's got a really nice shot. We're gonna have to win with lock down D and rebounding until Smith gets back. This team is deep.
I will never understand how good basketball players can be so bad at free throws.
I'll disagree with that. For me, 70% is average. Shak, Davis and Stevenson were 77%. Not stellar, but above average for sure. They took about 150 free throws between them.
Matthews and Reid were both in the high 60s, close to 70%. Average, not terrible. Combined for about 120 shots, mostly by Cam.
Murphy and Jones were both under 65%. Below average in my eyes. But they only took 24 between them.
Tolu, DJ and McNair were all in the high 50%. Now we are into terrible range.
Our problem was distribution, We shot 655 free throws as a team and Tolu took nearly 40% of them. DJ took about 10% of them. So two of our worst shooters had the highest volume. I'm not suggesting we try to reduce Tolu's trips to the line. That's a big part of his game. He has to be better from the line, and I'm sure he knows that. But the assertion that everyone was terrible seems a bit extreme.
