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And Mikaylah Williams pulled the No. 6 Tigers out of each one. The star junior guard from Bossier City scored 26 points, grabbed a career-high 15 rebounds and assisted four shots against the Bulldogs, leading LSU to a 72-63 win in its regular-season finale. She played all 40 minutes of the game, doing so for just the second time in her career.
Here's where Mississippi State stands in the latest March Madness projection. ESPN's Charlie Creme projects Mississippi State as a No. 12 seed and one of the last four teams in the NCAA Tournament. That means it'd have to play a play-in game before the first round.
With its 50-point win over Mississippi State on Sunday, No. 4 Texas improved to 26-3 on the season and 11-3 in SEC play with four of those conference wins coming by at least 30 points.
Williams sat the whole second half of LSU’s win over Ole Miss. Then she played all 40 minutes of its win over Mississippi State.
Mississippi State enters its final two games on the NCAA Tournament bubble, starting with a key road test at Texas A&M on Thursday.
Mississippi State women's basketball lost at home to Florida on Feb. 19 at Humphrey Coliseum.
Mississippi State basketball's radio show, "Dawg Talk" presented by Learfield, returns for the final exclusive women's basketball episode on Monday at