Top Mississippi State reserve Destiney McPhaul out for Missouri game
Ahead of Monday night’s matchup with Mississippi State and Missouri, the Bulldogs will be missing one of their top reserves.
Junior guard Destiney McPhaul was listed as “Out” on the SEC’s availability report on Sunday evening and will be joined by freshman Shakirah Edwards on the list. A team spokesperson said that McPhaul is battling an illness.
It’s a hit to State’s guard depth on Monday as McPhaul has been one of the Bulldogs’ sparkplugs off the bench. The junior college transfer is averaging 8.2 points per game in 19 games this season with 23.1 minutes. She shoots 49% from the field and 38% from 3-point range while pulling down 3.0 rebounds and dishing out 2.8 assists a game.
The 5’9 guard originally signed with Temple out of high school but became an All-American at Northwest Florida State College the last two seasons. She helped lead her team to back-to-back National Championships before transferring to State for her junior season this year.
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Edwards has played sparingly in 11 games with 4.5 minutes a contest but has earned some playing time in a couple of SEC games recently. She has 12 total points on the season with five assists and two steals.
Missouri also has two players out for the game on Monday night with backups Tionna Herron and Londyn Oliphant. Both have been out for the majority of SEC play. Mizzou enters 11-10 on the year and 0-6 in SEC play. Only one of the losses to this point has been decided by single digits – a 74-72 loss at Georgia.
MSU (16-5, 3-4 SEC) enters Monday night’s game needing a win to get back to .500 and continue to push towards an NCAA Tournament berth. The teams will play Monday’s game in Columbia at 7 p.m. on SEC Network before traveling to Baton Rouge to take on No. 5 LSU on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m.
State will host two home games next week against Arkansas (Feb. 6) and No. 19 Alabama (Feb. 9).
