Mississippi State Basketball Schedule
Athletic Media Relations
A school-record 16 regular-season home games
highlight Mississippi State University's 2005-06 men's
basketball schedule, as announced this week by MSU Director of
Athletics Larry Templeton.
In addition, MSU's challenging 2005-06 men's basketball slate
will
feature a possible dozen outings against opponents that
participated in
either the NCAA Tournament or NIT a season ago.
Breaking the previous school standard of 15 regular-season home
games played during the 2000-01 regular season (excluding two
postseason NIT home contests), coach Rick Stansbury's new-look
2005-06 Bulldogs will tip off the upcoming hoops campaign by
playing seven of their first eight games at 10,500-seat Humphrey
Coliseum. After tipping off MSU's 94th season of collegiate
basketball competition by playing host to reigning NCAA
Tournament entry Chattanooga and Arkansas State on Nov. 19 and
21, respectively, the Bulldogs travel to Charlotte, N.C., to
meet the Charlotte 49ers of the Atlantic 10 Conference, a 2005
NCAA Tournament participant, on Nov. 23 at Charlotte's Halton
Arena.
Entering the upcoming season riding a current streak of four
consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances with four straight
20-win seasons, the Bulldogs return to Starkville after the
Thanksgiving holiday to take part in a five-game homestand that
runs from Saturday, Nov. 26 to Saturday, Dec. 10.
Following the two-week homestand, State returns to the capital
city of Jackson for the third time in the last four years to
meet Jacksonville State at the Mississippi Coliseum on Dec. 15.
MSU's pre-Christmas slate wraps up with the team's third visit
to Puerto
Rico in the last 14 years, as the Bulldogs participate in the
San Juan
Shootout, Dec. 19-21, in Carolina, Puerto Rico. State
previously competed in the Puerto Rico Holiday Classic in
1996-97 and the San Juan Shootout in 1992-93. This year's San
Juan Shootout tournament field also includes Clemson,
Chattanooga, Holy Cross, Akron, Liberty, Mount St. Mary's and
UPR-Mayaguez.
2005-06 MISSISSIPPI STATE MEN'S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
Date Day Opponent Time
Nov. 5 Sat. WEST GEORGIA (EXH.) TBA
Nov. 12 Sat. WEST FLORIDA (EXH.) 2 p.m.
Nov. 19 Sat. CHATTANOOGA TBA
Nov. 21 Mon. ARKANSAS STATE 7 p.m.
Nov. 23 Wed. at Charlotte 7:30 p.m. ET
Nov. 26 Sat. NORTHWESTERN STATE TBA
Nov. 28 Mon. SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA 7 p.m.
Nov. 30 Wed. NEW ORLEANS 7 p.m.
Dec. 3 Sat. SANTA CLARA 1 p.m.
Dec. 10 Sat. TROY 7 p.m.
Dec. 15 Thu. +Jacksonville State 7 p.m.
Dec. 19 Mon. *Liberty 5 p.m. AT
Dec. 20 Tue. *Akron/Mount St. Mary's 3/5 p.m. AT
Dec. 21 Wed. *Championship/Consolation TBA
Dec. 30 Fri. GEORGE MASON 7 p.m.
Jan. 7 Sat. ARKANSAS 7 p.m.
Jan. 11 Wed. at Florida 7 p.m. ET
Jan. 14 Sat. at Mississippi Noon
Jan. 18 Wed. LSU 7 p.m.
Jan. 21 Sat. at Vanderbilt 2:45 p.m.
Jan. 25 Wed. TENNESSEE 7 p.m.
Jan. 28 Sat. at Alabama 6 p.m.
Feb. 1 Wed. KENTUCKY 7 p.m.
Feb. 4 Sat. AUBURN 6 p.m.
Feb. 11 Sat. at South Carolina 6 p.m. ET
Feb. 15 Wed. at LSU 7 p.m.
Feb. 18 Sat. ^MISSISSIPPI 2 p.m.
Feb. 22 Wed. at Auburn 7 p.m.
Feb. 25 Sat. GEORGIA TBA
Mar. 1 Wed. at Arkansas 7 p.m.
Mar. 4 Sat. ALABAMA TBA
Mar. 9-12 Th-Su. #at SEC Tournament TBA
+ - at Mississippi Coliseum (Jackson, MS)
* - San Juan Shootout (Carolina, Puerto Rico)
^ - SEC Throwback Weekend
# - at Gaylord Entertainment Center (Nashville, TN)
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Team Schedules.
