Mississippi State University NCAA News

Southeastern Conference basketball coaches wouldn't admit it during the regular season - their league was down.

STARKVILLE, Miss., Jan. 3 -- The University of Houston issued the following news release: Mississippi State used early runs in both halves and hot shooting to take an 82-65 win over the University of Houston men's basketball team Saturday inside Humphrey Coliseum.

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LITTLE ROCK a ' Southeastern Conference basketball coaches spent much of a summer teleconference talking about how the league will be better.

Corey Fisher scored 15 points and Deon Thompson added 12 to go with nine boards as the 2009 USA Men's World University Games Team earned a 67-63 hard-fought defensive battle over Russia in the 2009 Serbia International Invitational on Monday night in Belgrade.

SEC basketball coaches are predicting a massive Charles Barkley-like rebound for the league after a dismal season.

The preseason college football magazines have hit the newsstands and one thing is clear: The Ole Miss Rebels are wearing a bull's eye roughly the size of Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

STARKVILLE - In his bright white Mississippi State basketball jersey, Jarvis Varnado is out of place walking around Mississippi State's campus on a recent scorching-hot afternoon.

The following is a tentative listing of student-athletes that will be featured during the 2009 Southeastern Conference Football Media Days, to be held July 22-24 at the Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Ala.

It was the most memorable game day of Marcus Washington's life, but he hardly remembers the game.

The team the United States will send to the World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia, will include some of the top returning big men in college basketball.

Happy to see two locals - Villanova rising junior point guard Corey Fisher from the Bronx and St.

Mississippi State forward Jarvis Varnado has made the 12-man roster of the U.S. team that will compete in the World University Games later this year.

Less than three months from the start of the college football season, the three first-year SEC head coaches have paced, prowled and propelled themselves and their programs into perplexing positions of uncertainty.

Longtime John Wooden Classic participant UCLA will face Mississippi State in the 16th annual John R. Wooden Classic on Dec.

THE GOOD NEWS: Mississippi State returns all five of its starters, and it should return all but one of the guys who allowed it to essentially go 11-deep all the way into March.

FINAL RECORD: 23-13, 9-7 SEC, third place in the Western Division. WHAT WENT RIGHT: When shooting well, Mississippi State was a hard team to beat, regardless the foe.

So far, the SEC has been the biggest winner in early-entry withdrawal decisions after Patrick Patterson , Michael Washington , Tasmin Mitchell and Jarvis Varnado all announced they would come back to school.

Kicker Eric Richards is no longer part of Mississippi State's football team, as a nagging hip injury has forced him to give up his career.

Several members of the 2009 Mississippi State football team began summer workouts this week as summer session classes began on Tuesday.