Mississippi State softball head coach Samantha Rickets finalized her team’s schedule for the upcoming 2026 campaign, which will begin on Feb. 5.

The Bulldogs will take part in five invitational weekends, three on the road and two at home in Nusz Park. The season begins with the Getterman Classic at Baylor, where they will face the Bears, Northwestern State, Wichita State and New Mexico.

MSU will also travel for the Tiger Invitational at Clemson in February, taking on the Tigers, Georgia Southern and Wofford, and the Jaguar Classic at South Alabama in March, taking on New Mexico two more times, as well as the hosts and Samford.

Nusz Park will host Murray State, Rutgers and North Texas for The Snowman: Alex Wilcox Memorial invitational in February and then visits from Belmont, Samford and Delaware State for the Bulldog Invitational the following week.

MSU begins SEC play against Tennessee at home on May 13, and will alternate away and home games for the remainder of the schedule with nonconference one-off matchups in midweek against Southeast Missouri, UAB and UT Martin scheduled through March.

The annual All for Alex Weekend will take place April 10-12 for the series against Arkansas, and LSU will come to town for Super Bulldog Weekend April 24-26.

The SEC Tournament, which will take place in Lexington, Ky. this season, will begin on Tuesday, May 5.

Ricketts enters her seventh season as head coach at MSU with a 198-119 overall record. MSU has won at least 34 games in four of her six seasons so far, and she led the program to a career-high 39 wins last season, reaching the Lubbock Regional before falling to Texas Tech.