Good morning! With Bulldog tennis gearing up for its 2025 season, check out the full slate for both the men’s and women’s teams.

What else did we throw into today’s Bulldog Brew?

🏀 A pair of Bulldog basketball wins
🥎 Softball announces its full 2025 schedule
🐶 And much, much more!

🎙️ DEAR OL’ STATE

Dear Ol’ State: A Victory Show To Put A Lid On 2024. On the final episode of Dear Ol' State before the new year arrives, Joel Coleman and Logan Lowery celebrate a women's hoops win, chat with head coach Sam Purcell and honor the legendary Jim Ellis following his retirement announcement earlier this week.

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Final Horn. For the second time this season, Bulldog men’s basketball took down a top-25 ranked foe, defeating No. 21 Memphis on the road, 79-66. An early-first-half 13-0 run for the Bulldogs made a 5-all game 18-5 in favor of the Maroon and White just over seven minutes into the contest, and State led by double-digits the rest of the way. Individually, four Bulldogs scored in double figures, led by Riley Kugel's 19 points.

📚️ Read the full game recap
📝 Postgame notes
📸 See some of the pictures from the locker room after the game

🔼 Extending The Streak. Bulldog women’s basketball is headed home for the holidays with their fourth straight victory after taking down the Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks, 70-52. Madina Okot was dominant on the floor for State, finishing with a career-high 26 points on 13-16 shooting from the floor.

📚️ Read the full game recap

🔼 Mark Those Calendars. As Opening Day approaches for Bulldog softball, head coach Samantha Ricketts has released the program's full 2025 schedule. MSU will play 29 non-conference games throughout the season and is set to play 17 games against seven teams that finished the 2024 season ranked in the final NFCA Coaches' Poll. Four of those teams, accounting for 13 contests, finished inside the top 10.

📆 See the full Bulldog softball 2025 calendar

🔼 New Talent. Freshly minted Mississippi State soccer head coach Nick Zimmerman has secured the first signees of his tenure, bringing in two transfers who will join the program when classes resume in the spring. Goalkeeper Sarah Wommack (App State) and forward Elsa Johnson (Xavier) are preparing to join the SEC Regular Season Champions in Starkville.

🤔 BULLDOG TRIVIA

Overcoming The Odds. Today’s trivia question…when was the last time the Bulldog men’s basketball team took down an AP Top 25 opponent in a true road game?

Think you got it? Scroll to the bottom of the Bulldog Brew to see if you know your stuff!

🎄 A HOLIDAY MESSAGE

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📆 CLOSING OUT 2024

Sunday, December 29
🏀 Women’s Basketball vs. South Carolina State @ 2 p.m. in Starkville, MS | Tickets 

Monday, December 30
🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. Bethune-Cookman @ 8 p.m. in Starkville, MS | Tickets | SECN

🐶 Click here to see the full Mississippi State Athletics Calendar

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 2010!

The Bulldogs snapped a 22-game skid against AP Top 25 opponents in true road games which dated back to an 80-75 victory over No. 14 Ole Miss on Jan. 9, 2010

🐶 Have a great Monday, y'all!