[Cactus Jack]

Mississippi State had a nice game plan and executed well early. Think the Cats depth and ability to "out-athlete" them was the difference in the second half. Ball screen defense and rebounding need to improve.

Inability to get stops or making terrible decisions in the last two or so minutes was extremely frustrating. Lost count of how many times Ivisic was picking himself up off the floor or Onyenso was getting moved around; think that Bradshaw is probably all but phased out for anything other than spot duty at this point, but we'll see. Would have been really nice to see Edwards do more to build on his performance against Alabama.

Nice to see us pick up a road win when we were struggling offensively and didn't get the best game from Dillingham. Sheppard obviously played well. Reeves is who he is at this point, defensive deficiencies and all; he or maybe Dillingham are probably still the guys I'd want taking the last shot though.

Will be interesting to see Wagner's usage going forward-- he'd been trending toward fewer overall minutes, and I think that you still have to give him significant minutes because of what he brings defensively and for his ability to get to the rim, but MSU was definitely making it a point to live with him making shots to beat them.

Huge win, but at the end of the year, we're probably still looking at UNC-Wilmington game and then picking any one of the LSU, Florida, or Texas A&M games as what keeps them out of a much more favorable seed in both the SEC and NCAA Tournaments.