Just 60 seconds away from coaching his team to a stunning victory over defending champions LSU, Mississippi State head coach Sam Purcell found himself coaching the crowd as well. Up by three with the ball, Purcell pleaded for quiet from the Starkville faithful, who could taste MSU’s first top-10 win since 2018.
“The Hump’s” prompt decrescendo made its subsequent pop all the more triumphant, as Darrione Rogers drilled a clutch triple from the left wing to send a sold-out home crowd into delirium and ice a 77-73 victory over No. 9 LSU, Purcell’s first-ever top-25 win as a head coach.
JerKaila Jordan continued a career year with possibly her best performance to date Monday, leading all scorers with an efficient 24 points while stuffing the stat sheet with four rebounds and five steals. A steal-and-score from Jordan opened the scoring, a fitting prelude for a game that featured 43 combined turnovers as LSU would build an early 8-2 lead entirely off of Bulldog giveaways.
The Tigers would quickly enter one of their many lengthy scoring droughts on a mercurial offensive evening, however, managing just a lone field goal in over five minutes…
