STARKVILLE — Mississippi State women’s basketball picked up its second win of the season against Alcorn State on Sunday. JerKaila Jordan scored 20 points to help lead the Bulldogs to a 73-45 win over the Braves, improving to 2-0 on the season.
The game was reminiscent of the sluggish 77-42 contest between the teams in last year’s season opener. Head coach Sam Purcell continued to rotate the lineups, and Jordan’s 20-point game alongside Destiny McPhaul’s 15 helped the team overcome some slow offense to get the comfortable win.
The Bulldogs were slow out of the gate, falling behind early to some hot shooting beyond the arc from Alcorn’s Nakia Cheathman, who hit three from distance in the opening five minutes. The Braves led 9-8 at the midway point of the first quarter, but the Bulldogs went on an 18-10 run after that to end the quarter.
Defensively the Bulldogs turned it on in the second quarter, allowing just five points from the visitors, and took a 44-23 lead into the halftime interval. That trend continued into the second half, and while the Bulldogs won comfortably there was not the same flow and scoring that was evident in the 100-56 win over Memphis in the season opener on Thursday.
MSU is back in action against Alabama State at home, starting at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. The game will host local school children for what is the program’s second annual education day game.
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