Mar. 6—When the Mississippi State men's basketball team hits the court today, it's possible that the highly-talented Sharife Cooper will be facing the Bulldogs. Mississippi State (14-12, 8-9 SEC) travels to Auburn today at noon for an SEC Network game. It's the last game of the regular season for both teams. The SEC men's tournament begins on Wednesday. Cooper, a 6-foot-1 freshman guard, has .
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AUBURN, Ala. (AP) Allen Flanigan scored 17 of his 22 points in the second half and Auburn pulled away late to beat Mississippi State 78-71 on Saturday and give Bruce Pearl his 600th coaching victory in the Tigers’ season finale.
With no seniors and just two upperclassmen on the roster, Auburn didn’t stage a Senior Day, and the Tigers (13-14, 7-11 Southeastern Conference) announced in November that they were self-imposing a postseason ban as a result of a long-running NCAA investigation. But they found reason to celebrate after the win over the Bulldogs as Pearl did a little dance at center court, surrounded by his players.
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Your 2021 SEC Champion Crimson Tide takes the floor for the final time in Coleman Coliseum tonight, as the lowly Auburn Tigers come to town (along with mortal enemy to Tide Hoops and fans of fun college basketball everywhere, Doug Shows). As the calendar has now flipped to March, Alabama must now gear up for deep runs in the SEC and NCAA Tournaments. That starts tonight, when the Tide will try to send the seniors out triumphantly with a sweep of Auburn for the first time since the 2015 season.