{"id":377049,"date":"2025-12-29T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377049\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:06:09","slug":"womens-basketball-falls-at-mississippi-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/377049\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Basketball Falls At Mississippi State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Fisk.png\" alt=\"Fisk \"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Fisk <\/p>\n<p>1\/2\/2026 | 2 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Jan. 02 (Fri) \/ 2 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Fisk.png\" alt=\"Fisk \"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Fisk &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/opponent-history\/fisk\/358\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    STARKVILLE, Miss. \u2013 The Samford women&#8217;s basketball team dropped a 112-54 decision at Mississippi State Sunday afternoon at Humphrey Coliseum.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith the loss, Samford fell to 6-10 on the season. Mississippi State improved its record to 13-1 with the win.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSamford was led in the loss by <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/kaylee-yarbrough\/10255\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10255\" target=\"_blank\">Kaylee Yarbrough<\/a> with 14 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/aubrey-blankenship\/10158\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10158\" target=\"_blank\">Aubrey Blankenship<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/briana-rivera\/10258\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10258\" target=\"_blank\">Briana Rivera<\/a> had nine points each for Samford. <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/martha-bishop\/10157\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10157\" target=\"_blank\">Martha Bishop<\/a> led the team in rebounds with five, while <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/jada-knight\/10161\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10161\" target=\"_blank\">Jada Knight<\/a> had a team-high four assists.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor Mississippi State, Favour Nwaedozi led the way with 30 points and 10 rebounds. Nwaedozi was one of four Mississippi State players to record double-doubles in the game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMississippi State raced out to an early 14-4 lead with 5:57 to go in the first quarter following a free throw by Nwaedozi. MSU pushed the lead to 15 points at 25-10 with 1:10 to go in the first after a jumper by Chandler Prater. Two late Knight free throws cut the lead to 25-12 at the end of the first period.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the second quarter, Mississippi State pushed its lead to as many as 28 points at 51-23. The home Bulldogs took a 51-26 lead into halftime following a late three-pointer by Samford&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/avary-brewer\/10256\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10256\" target=\"_blank\">Avary Brewer<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMSU stretched its lead to as many as 50 points in the third quarter and held an 89-41 lead at the end of the period. Mississippi State finished the fourth quarter with a 112-54 win.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNext up, Samford will play host to Fisk on Friday, Jan. 2. The game is set for a 2 p.m. start from the Pete Hanna Center.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW THE BULLDOGS<br \/>\nFor the latest news and information on Samford women&#8217;s basketball, visit the official website for Samford Athletics at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SamfordSports.com<\/a>. Fans can also follow the Bulldogs on social media at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Samford-Womens-Basketball-258894364135946\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/SamfordWomensBasketball<\/a>\u00a0(Facebook),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/samfordwbb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SamfordWBB<\/a>\u00a0(Instagram) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamfordWBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SamfordWBB<\/a>\u00a0(Twitter).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Fisk 1\/2\/2026 | 2 PM &#13; Jan. 02 (Fri) \/ 2 PM&#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-377049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}