Mississippi State basketball drops out of AP Top 25
After going 1-1 against teams not ranked in the AP Top 25, the Mississippi State basketball team fell out of the rankings for the first time this season.
For the second consecutive week, the Mississippi State basketball team went 1-1 in its games and pulled its conference record back to .500. The team dropped a game against the Alabama Crimson Tide this past week on Tuesday but then turned around and upset the Ole Miss Rebels in Oxford.
When the Mississippi State basketball team split games against ranked opponents the previous week, the team stayed put in the rankings. Would the Bulldogs’ fate in the rankings hold true splitting games against unranked teams?
After going 1-1 on the week, the Mississippi State basketball team fell out of the AP Top 25 for the first time this season. The Bulldogs have been as high as 14 and as low as 25, but they had yet to fall out of the rankings until this week. The Bulldogs were the second highest vote getters of those teams receiving votes behind Washington.
Here is how the rest of the poll shakes out.
1) Tennessee
2) Duke
3) Virginia
4) Gonzaga
5) Kentucky
6) Nevada
7) Michigan
8) North Carolina
9) Michigan State
10 ) Marquette
11) Virginia Tech
12) Houston
13) Kansas
14) Villanova
15) Purdue
16) Louisville
17) Iowa State
18) Texas Tech
19) Wisconsin
20) Iowa
21) LSU
22) Florida State
23) Buffalo
24) Maryland
25) Cincinnati
The Mississippi State basketball team has now evened up their record in conference play after falling to 0-2 in SEC play after its first two games. The SEC schedule will eventually lighten up, but it’s been tough sledding so far for the Bulldogs
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If the Mississippi State basketball team wants to get back in the rankings, it will have a great opportunity to do so this week. The Bulldogs will play 21st ranked LSU on Wednesday night at 8:00, and then they will welcome the 5th ranked Kentucky Wildcats to Humphrey Coliseum on Saturday at noon. Winning both games would probably put the Bulldogs close to the Top 15.