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Bethel High graduate Brandon Moore scored a career-high 26 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and Kevin Winford made five of six free throws in the final 57 seconds of overtime Saturday as Eastern Washington beat Seattle University, 100-97, in Cheney.

Riding the momentum of a four-game winning streak after dismantling UCLA last Saturday, Mississippi State returns to Humphrey Coliseum for the first time in nearly two weeks tonight to face Wright State in a nationally-televised ESPN2 game set to begin at 6:02 p.m. It will be the first meeting between the two schools.

Mississippi State's Ravern Johnson was named the Southeastern Conference player of the week on Monday morning, which is just one more sign that junior guard is turning into a star player.

As UCLA forward Nikola Dragovic attempts to find his confidence - and from that, his shot - coach Ben Howland gave him his vote on Monday.

Mississippi State's second participation in the third-ever SEC/Big East Challenge turned out much better.

Ravern Johnson scored a career-high 29 points, Jarvis Varnado blocked seven shots and Mississippi State rolled to a 72-54 victory over UCLA in the Wooden Classic on Saturday.

Ravern Johnson scored 14 points and Jarvis Varnado had 12 points and 14 rebounds on Thursday night to lead Mississippi State to a 76-45 rout of cold-shooting DePaul in the SEC/Big East Invitational.

Rick Stansbury looking to get his Bulldogs in rhythm after their own early season bumps/distractions. Browse more photos>> Let's continue to add to our notes in the Bulldogs game file we have been putting together this week.

So just two more days to go till the Finals weeks come to and end. Bruins will get back to practices tonight to prepare for Saturday's game against Mississippi State Bulldogs.

Ravern Johnson scored 18 points and four others finished in double figures to lead Mississippi State to a 105-53 victory over St.

Mark Schmidt had plenty of time to think about this, given just how quickly the game had gotten out of hand.

Mississippi State hit a school record-tying 16 three-pointers and shot 59.7 percent Saturday in a 105-53 rout of St.

Junior guard Kevin Anderson scored with less than 30 seconds remaining to give Richmond a 63-62 victory over Mississippi State on Friday in the semifinals of the South Padre Island Invitational.

Rick Stansbury spent the first minute of a press conference after a 25-point win here Tuesday complaining.

Mississippi State shot 52.6 percent from the field and hit nine shots from beyond the arc.

Despite back-to-back wins over Southeastern Louisiana and Bethune-Cookman this week, Mississippi State did little to assuage the myopic voters who had dropped them from the Top 25 following their season opening loss to Rider.

Mississippi State got some quick healing from a handful of injured players and the usual strong effort from Jarvis Varnado to get its first win of the season Thursday night.

Following a disappointing 88-74 season-opening loss to Rider last Friday, Mississippi State returns to the court on Thursday, hosting Southeastern Louisiana in a 7 p.m. tip at Humphrey Coliseum.

Novar Gadson scored 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and the Rider Broncs provided an early upset over the 18th-ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs, 88-74, in the first game of the 2009-10 season for both schools.

Last season, Mississippi State made a late run to capture the SEC tournament title and their 10th NCAA tournament berth in school history.