National Basketball Association
Mississippi State 106, Tulane 76
When: 11:30 AM ET, Saturday, December 9, 2023
Where: State Farm Arena, Atlanta, Georgia
Officials:
# Wil Howard, # Mike Nance, # Olandis Poole
Attendance:
8623
By Field Level Media
Josh Hubbard scored 22 points and led a 3-point shooting attack as Mississippi State routed Tulane 106-76 on Saturday in the Holiday Hoopsgiving event in Atlanta.
Hubbard made 5-of-7 3-pointers for the Bulldogs, who finished 13-of-28 shooting on 3-pointers and never trailed. Cameron Matthews and Jimmy Bell Jr. added 14 points each, and D.J. Jeffries and Shakeel Moore had 11 each for Mississippi State (7-2), which led by as many as 41 points.
Kolby King scored 18, Collin Holloway added 12 and Tre' Williams had 10 to lead the Green Wave (6-2), who had won three games in a row. Tulane, which had shot better than 50 percent in six of seven games, shot just 42.1 percent and finished more than 12 points short of its American Athletic Conference-leading scoring average of 79.9 points per game.
Mississippi State, which got outscored 15-2 at the end of a one-point loss to Southern six days earlier, started much faster than it finished that game.
Moore and Dashawn Davis each made a 3-pointer and Bell added four straight points as the Bulldogs scored the first 10 points of the game.
Holloway, who scored a career-high 26 points in the Green Wave's most recent game, made two free throws to end his team's drought.
Mississippi State opened a 17-2 lead and nearly six minutes elapsed before a Tulane player other than Holloway scored. Gregg Glenn III's basket trimmed the lead to 21-7.
The Green Wave got within 14 points three more times before Matthews made three layups to help the Bulldogs expand the lead to 37-14.
Hubbard scored four straight points and the Bulldogs took their biggest lead of the half at 51-21, but Holloway scored three points during a 9-0 run that got Tulane within 21.
Hubbard, Jeffries and Keshawn Murphy each made a 3-pointer to help the Bulldogs rebuild the lead to 62-34 at halftime.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
| Tulane |
|
Mississippi State |
|
Kolby King 18 |
Scoring |
Josh Hubbard 22 |
|
Kevin Cross 5 |
Assists |
D.J. Jeffries 7 |
|
Collin Holloway 6 |
Rebounds |
Keshawn Murphy 10 |
|
Kolby King 7 |
Free Throws Made |
Josh Hubbard 3 |
|
Kevin Cross 3 |
Steals |
Dashawn Davis 5 |
|
Sion James 1 |
Blocks |
Gai Chol 1 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| Tulane
|
76 |
42.1 |
5-24 |
23-34 |
14 |
24 |
1 |
10 |
14 |
| Mississippi State
|
106 |
58.6 |
13-28 |
11-18 |
31 |
42 |
2 |
11 |
13 |
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