March is here and teams are looking to improve their standing for the NCAA tournament.

Ole Miss didn’t help their cause this week. To start the week in Oxford they fell to Tennessee on a last second (somewhat controversial) charging call to a final of 73 – 71. That’s a big heart breaker against the one time # 1 team in the land. Breein Tyree and Terrance Davis led the team with 16 points. It is of note that Tyree missed two very critical free throws. Next the Rebels looked to bounce back with a trip to Arkansas. Ole Miss lost again in heartbreaking fashion by 1 point. The final 74-73 in favor of the Hogs. Tyree led the team with 20 points in the loss. This week is the last week of the regular season and the Rebels do not get to start it off easy as the Kentucky Wildcats will be coming to town. Needless to say Kentucky likes basketball very much so. The regular season finale will be a trip to Columbia, MO this Saturday against the Missouri Tigers. The match up with Kentucky would be a huge get for the Rebels, a Quadrant 1 win. The Missouri match up they do not need to lose.

As for Mississippi State, the Bulldogs started their week obliterating Missouri with a final of 68 – 49. Tyson Carter led the maroon and white with 22 points. Next on the docket for Ben Howland and company was a trip to Auburn. Sadly, for the Bulldogs, the Tigers would emerge victorious with a final score of 80-75. Quinndary Weatherspoon would lead the team with 25 points and 6 assists. MSU looks ahead to their final two games, much like Ole Miss. Tuesday the Bulldogs will travel to “Rocky Top” and face the very talented senior efforts of the Tennessee Volunteers. Saturday, will bring the Texas A&M Aggies to Starkvegas. Again, this is much like Ole Miss’ final games, the first one would be a phenomenal win the second would be a terrible loss.

In ESPN’s Joe Lunardi’s latest Bracketology, Ole Miss has downgraded to a 10 Seed and would be in the Mid-West region. Mississippi State has pushed to a 6 seed in the same region.

Mississippi State’s Women’s Basketball team clinched a SEC regular season championship. The lady Bulldogs will go to the SEC Tournament as the clear # 1 seed and will get the luxury of the 2 bye’s. The Lady Rebels enter the tournament as a 12 seed and will start tournament action off against the Florida Gators. The game will be Wednesday March 6th at 10:00am.

This past weekend the Bulldogs of the diamond traveled to Frisco, TX to participate in the Frisco Classic. Friday the Bulldogs beat Sam Houston State with a final of 5-4. Saturday would come and MSU would turn their attention to the #8 Texas Tech Red Raiders, again, winning with a final of 4-2. Sophomore Jordan Westburg, continued his hitting streak to a career long 7 games. Sunday’s match up against Nebraska was cancelled due to the inclement weather of the Arctic Vortex. The Bulldog’s should see their ranking improve with the victory over Texas Tech and are setting at 10-1 for the season so far. MSU will host two mid-week games this week Tuesday vs East Carolina and Wednesday vs Arkansas Pine Bluff. This weekend will be hosting Maine, Friday through Sunday.

The Rebels pulled off a week of W’s. Starting off with a mid-week 12-6 victory over UT Martin. For the weekend series Ole Miss hosted the Long Beach State Dirtbags (no, that’s literally their name not an insult). Friday’s victory came to the final of 7-2. Saturday got pushed to a double header with Sunday’s game being cancelled, the Rebels kept to the offensive with victories of 7-6 and 5-3. Rebel’s OF Thomas Dillard has been on a tear so far this season with 6 home runs and 19 RBI’s. Ole Miss, like State, will have two mid-week match ups, Tuesday vs Little Rock and Wednesday vs East Carolina. The weekend series will be hosting UAB Friday through Sunday.

Hey AAF action this past weekend!

The Memphis Express made a change at quarterback this week with a familiar name. Former LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger was given the reigns to the offense and led the Express to their first franchise victory 26-23 over the San Diego Fleet. The Express will travel to Atlanta this coming weekend to face the Legends.

The Birmingham Iron, while Memphis was getting their 1st win, would suffur their first loss. The final would go 12-11 in favor of San Antonio. Former Mississippi State defender, Beniquez Brown, would lead the Iron with 7 tackles and 1 sack.

Oh yeah, the NFL Combine kind of happened. Unless you’ve been under a rock you already know that D.K. Metcalf (Ole Miss) and Montez Sweat (MSU) put on a clinic. Metcalf clocked a 4.33 – 40 yard dash, a combine record for a receiver his size. Sweat, also made impressions on the 40 being the fastest defensive linemen at 4.41.

Another Notable: Ole Miss Safety, Zedrick Woods, would be the fastest of all players at the combine clocking a 4.29 official time.

Ole Miss and State has many players in Indianapolis for full results visit the official NFL Combine Results