STARKVILLE – Mississippi State women’s basketball improved to 10-1 on the season with an 87-64 win over Southern Miss on Sunday.
Head coach Sam Purcell’s Bulldogs got ahead and stayed ahead, recording a 28-point third-quarter performance to pull away for another dominant nonconference win.
Sophomore guard Saniyah King left with an injury just before the end of the first quarter, and she needed assistance getting off the court and into the tunnel. She missed the first three games of the season with an injury.
The Bulldogs led 40-28 at halftime thanks to a pair of 11-point first-half performances from Chandler Prater and Destiney McPhaul, the latter hitting 3-5 from beyond the arc.
The prolific play on offense continued into the second half, with the Bulldogs opening the third quarter on a 13-0 run before the Golden Eagles could get back on the board. Trayanna Crisp added to the long-range shooting with a pair of triples of her own, and Favour Nwaedozi quickly picked up a double-double with a bucket early in the half.
The Bulldogs put up 28 points as a team in the third to pull away.
Nwaedozi finished with 21 points and 23 boards for the 20-20 double-double game.
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