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Mississippi State's SEC Tournament draw is set

3rupauk8_400x400by:Robbie Faulk•about 19 hours•

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Mississippi State women's basketball team

As the regular season has officially come to an end in SEC women’s basketball, the tournament in Greenville, S.C. is all set for next week.

Mississippi State wrapped up the regular season on Sunday by knocking off Auburn 73-66 on the road. That locked in the No. 10 seed for the Bulldogs in the tournament as State finished a spot higher than the preseason projection by the SEC media.

The Bulldogs are set to have a rematch with No. 15 seeded Missouri on Wednesday night at 5 p.m. Missouri finished the regular season 3-13 in SEC play and earned its first win of the SEC season against State back on January 27 with a 78-77 buzzer-beating win.

After starting the SEC slate 0-6, the Tigers finished 3-7 but also had single digit losses to top 25 teams Texas, Oklahoma and Kentucky as well as teams just on the outside like Tennessee and Ole Miss. Missouri announced earlier this week that coach Robin Pingeton wouldn’t return for another year and that was followed up by a 100-59 loss to Vanderbilt to close the regular season.

State is looking for its first SEC Tournament win since 2019-20.

If the Bulldogs can get revenge on the Tigers, it could lock in an NCAA Tournament berth for the second time in Sam Purcell’s three seasons. State was listed as being one of the Last Four Byes in ESPN Bracketologist Charlie Crème’s update before its win at Auburn.

State has 20 wins for the third time in as many years and finished the regular season 20-10 with a 7-9 record in SEC play. A win in round one of the tournament will pit the Bulldogs with No. 7 seeded Ole Miss on Thursday night at 5 p.m. All games through the first two rounds can be seen on SEC Network.

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