In a normal college basketball season beating Kentucky in the SEC Tournament probably means big things ahead, but for the Mississippi State Bulldogs, they lost their very next game and went on to miss out on the Big Dance.
- in a normal college basketball- season... beating - kentucky in the s-e-c - tournament... probably means- big things ahead.
- but for the mississippi state - bulldogs... they lost their ver- next game... and went on to mis- out on the big dance.
- the alternative... in its own - way... could turn out to be eve- better.
- - 4-seed m-s-u taking on 2-seed - richmond... in the second round- of- the n-i-t... winner of this - one... punches its ticket to th- final four.
- mid-way through the first...- matt grace un-corks a three...- nails it... - grace had 16 points for the - game... spiders leading,- though... - 14-10.- later in the first... dawgs in- need of some life... cats have- nine lives... how many do dogs- have... i don't know... but it'- d-j stewart junior igniting the- flame... sends it home... - makes it a five-point game.
- and stewart wasn't done... righ- before the half... punching - the clock and going to work in- the paint... spinning and - winning... ties it up at the- break.- second half now... dawgs trying- to hold on to a lead... and - to do that... you have to - score... off the bounce pass...- cameron - matthews hammers it home... - bulldogs up by one.
- seconds remaining... state- trailing by two... off the- rebound... stewart from - downtown... get your- reservations... and book it...- state takes a one-point lead...- with less than two seconds to - go... three of his 22 points...- and - none bigger... than those - three... 10 of those came from- his 10 made free throws, in the- - - second half... what a game by - the sophomore.- - bulldogs get it done... survive- and advance... by way of the- 68-67 - triumph... they're heading to - the n- i-t semi-finals, on- saturday... to- take on either louisiana tech..- or western kentucky.- -
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