2013-14 Game 22 • LSU • January 30, 2014 WBB CONTACT: BROCK TURNIPSEED, ASST. MEDIA RELATIONS DIRECTOR Address: 55 Coliseum Blvd. Humphrey Coliseum, Room 202 Mississippi State, MS 39762 Office Phone: (662) 325-7556 Cell Phone: (662) 418-7409 Fax: (662) 325-3654 E-Mail: [email protected] WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Twitter: @brockt_msu or @hailstateWBK 2013-14 BULLDOG MISSISSIPPI STATE BASKETBALL SCHEDULE (15-6, 2-5 SEC) Nov. 8 Fri. at Houston W, 76-68 BULLDOGS Nov. 13 Wed. Jackson State W, 81-42 Head Coach: Vic Schaefer (2nd Season at MSU) Nov. 17 Sun. New Orleans W, 111-38 vs. Nov. 21 Thurs. Tennessee Tech W, 90-45 Nov. 26 Tue. Savannah State W, 81-63 LSU (#14) Nov. 29-Dec. 1 % Gulf Coast Showcase Naples, Fla. TIGERS (16-4, 5-2 SEC) Nov. 29 Fri. % Grand Canyon W, 71-62 Head Coach: Nikki Caldwell (3rd Season at LSU) Nov. 30 Sat. % James Madison W, 65-52 Dec. 1 Sun. % Middle Tennessee L, 48-62 Thurday, January 30, 2014 | 2:04 p.m. CT Baton Rouge, La. | Pete Maravich Assembly Center Dec. 4 Wed. Louisiana-Lafayette W, 78-51 Radio: WNMQ-FM 103.1 Dec. 7 Sat. Alabama State W, 75-49 Television: Cox Sports Television Dec. 14 Sat. Southern Miss W, 71-61 Live Audio: www.HailState.com/HSTVLive (Subscription) Dec. 17 Tue. at North Dakota State W, 72-62 Dec. 20 Fri. Southeastern Louisiana W, 109-57 Twitter: @HailStateWBK | Facebook: Hail State Women’s Basketball Dec. 30 Mon. Mississippi Valley State W, 98-58 SERIES HISTORY Jan. 2 Thurs. * at Florida (SUN) L, 72-82 Overall Series Record: LSU leads 45-6 Jan. 5 Sun. * Auburn L, 74-82 Last Meeting: LSU 63-41 (2/17/13 in Starkville) Jan. 12 Sun. * at Arkansas W, 54-50 Jan. 16 Thurs. * Tennessee (CSS) L, 63-67 BULLDOG BITES... Jan. 19 Sun. * at Texas A&M L, 35-73 ► Mississippi State heads back on the road for the third time in four games Thursday, this time making Jan. 23 Thurs. * at Ole Miss L, 85-87 (OT) the trek to Baton Rouge to meet LSU in a 7 p.m. tip on Cox Sports Television. Jan. 26 Sun. * Missouri (SPSO) W, 69-62 ► The Bulldogs enter the contest 15-6 overall, 2-5 in SEC play, after knocking off Missouri 69-62 Sunday Jan. 30 Thurs. * at LSU 7 p.m. afternoon at Humphrey Coliseum. The win snapped three-straight setbacks for the squad. Feb. 2 Sun. * Georgia (CSS) 2 p.m. Feb. 6 Thurs. * South Carolina 7 p.m. ► LSU returns home 16-4 overall and 5-2 in league play following a 66-56 win at Ole Miss Sunday. The Tigers have won two-straight and four of their last five games. Feb. 9 Sun. * at Auburn 2 p.m. Feb. 16 Sun. * Vanderbilt (SEC TV) 1 p.m. ► LSU leads the overall series 45-6 and has won seven straight since MSU won back-to-back games in Feb. 20 Thurs. * at Alabama 7 p.m. 2009. State will head to Baton Rouge for the fourth time in the last seven meetings. Feb. 23 Sun. * Ole Miss 2 p.m. ► One game removed from facing the SEC’s third-best 3-point shooting team, MSU faces the second- Feb. 27 Thurs. * Kentucky 7 p.m. best in LSU (.398). State rates third in 3-point defense, holding foes to a nation’s 13th-best 26.6%. Mar. 2 Sun. * at Georgia (SPSO) 12 p.m. ► Mississippi State leads the SEC and is fifth nationally in turnover margin with a +7.7 mark. The Bull- March 5-9 ! SEC Tournament (Duluth, Ga.) dogs are second in the league and 19th in the nation in steals with 10.9 per game. All Times Central Home Games In Bold BULLDOGS’ POTENTIAL STARTERS (Based On Previous Game) % — Gulf Coast Showcase (Naples, Fla.) ! — SEC Tournament (Duluth, Ga.) * — Denotes SEC Game BULLDOGS IN SOCIAL MEDIA 10 51 00 11 3 @HailStateWBK Martha Savannah Dominique Katia Breanna ALWAL CARTER DILLINGHAM MAY RICHARDSON C • Jr. • 6-4 G • Jr. • 5-9 G • Fr. • 5-9 G • Sr. • 5-2 F • Fr. • 6-1 2013-14 Stats 2013-14 Stats 2013-14 Stats 2013-14 Stats 2013-14 Stats Facebook.com/HailStateWBK PPG ............................15.5 PPG ...............................6.9 PPG ............................10.5 PPG ...............................7.7 PPG ...............................9.0 RBD ...............................8.7 RBD ...............................5.0 RBD ...............................4.4 RBD ...............................1.8 RBD ...............................6.0 AST ................................0.6 AST ................................2.3 AST ................................1.4 AST ................................5.7 AST ................................1.0 BLK ................................2.3 BLK ................................0.0 BLK ................................0.4 BLK ................................0.1 BLK ................................0.3 HailStateWBK STL.................................0.9 STL.................................2.5 STL.................................2.1 STL.................................1.4 STL.................................1.0 MIN ............................30.5 MIN ............................25.7 MIN ............................26.6 MIN ............................24.8 MIN ............................23.0 WWW.HAILSTATE.COM | @HAILSTATEWBK | FACEBOOK.COM/HAILSTATEWBK MISSISSIPPI STATE BULLDOG BASKETBALL • 2013-14 Game 22 • LSU • January 30, 2014 VIC SCHAEFER HEAD COACH A veteran coach of 29 seasons, Schaefer embarks on his second season as head coach of the Bulldogs looking to take the next step in his quest of build- ing a championship program. Schaefer began laying the pieces of a championship foundation last sea- son in Starkville. He led the Bulldogs to SEC wins against Ole Miss, Alabama, Arkansas and Missouri before capping the year with a thrilling upset of No. 11 Georgia. Under his watch, Martha Alwal earned All-SEC honors and won the Gillom Trophy as a sophomore after leading the SEC in double-doubles, re- SEC STANDINGS bounding and blocked shots. He also added more stellar pieces to the Bulldog SEC OVERALL program as his first recruiting class rated as one of the best in program history. TEAM W L PCT. W L PCT. Building a championship program is something he has done at every stop in his coaching career, including his previous stops at Arkansas and Texas A&M. He has helped construct winners by teaching Texas A&M 6 1 .857 16 5 .761 intense, high-pressure defense, and compiling some of the nation’s top-ranked recruiting classes. South Carolina 6 1 .857 18 2 .900 In those 15 seasons in Fayetteville and College Station, Schaefer earned the moniker the “Secretary Vanderbilt 5 2 .714 16 4 .800 of Defense” as his defenses helped those squads to the postseason all but once (his first season at Texas LSU 5 2 .714 16 4 .800 A&M) while averaging 22 wins a year. Tennessee 5 2 .714 16 4 .800 Under the guidance of one of the most-respective teachers of defense in the nation, Arkansas and Florida 4 3 .571 14 6 .700 Texas A&M to 11 NCAA Tournament appearances. In his first season in Fayetteville, the Razorbacks Kentucky 4 3 .571 16 4 .800 advanced to the Final Four before making three more trips to the second round. With his alma mater, he Alabama 3 4 .428 10 10 .500 won a national championship while helping the program to a pair of Sweet 16 appearances, an Elite Eight Arkansas 2 5 .285 15 5 .750 showing, two trips to the second round and a first-round berth. Auburn 2 5 .285 11 9 .550 In his nine years as associate head coach to friend and mentor Gary Blair at Texas A&M, his teams Georgia 2 5 .285 14 6 .700 consistently were atop the Big 12 in turnovers caused, steals, turnover margin and assist-to-turnover ratio. Mississippi State 2 5 .285 15 6 .714 In 2011, his smothering defense topped the nation in turnover margin en route to guiding the Aggies Missouri 2 5 .285 13 7 .650 to the NCAA national championship in the program’s first trip to the Women’s Final Four. That squad also Ole Miss 1 6 .142 10 11 .476 earned Texas A&M’s first No. 1 national ranking while finishing the season with a 33-5 record, the most wins in school history. The following season, his final Texas A&M squad finished first in the Big 12 in turnover margin en MISSISSIPPI STATE QUICK FACTS route to advancing to a fifth-straight conference tournament title game and the Sweet 16 in the team’s Location: Starkville, Miss. seventh-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance. Founded: February 28, 1878 Schaefer was also part of Texas A&M squads that won two Big 12 Tournament titles (2010 & 2008) Enrollment: 20,500 and the conference regular season title in 2007. In addition to the 2011 national championship, Schaefer Colors: Maroon (PMS 202) and White helped coach the Aggies to the 2009 Sweet 16 and the 2008 Elite Eight. Nickname: Bulldogs Not only has Schaefer proven himself as one of the nation’s premier defensive coaches, but he has Conference: Southeastern also been one of the top recruiters in women’s basketball, helping ink nine Top 20 recruiting classes dur- Arena (Capacity): Humphrey Coliseum (10,500) ing his tenures at Texas A&M and Arkansas. His strong reputation as a coach and recruiter earned him President: Dr. Mark Keenum BasketballScoop.com’s 2009 Assistant Coach of the Year. Faculty Representative: Dr. Steven Turner While at Texas A&M, he played an integral role in the Aggies finishing among the country’s Top 10 Director of Athletics: Scott Stricklin signing classes four-straight years. His final class with the Aggies rated as the nation’s No. 2 signing class, Associate AD/Women’s Sports: Ann Carr and he helped land the nation’s top class during the 2011 national championship run.