#19 Lady Bulldogs Set For Paradise Jam; Tourney Broadcast Info Released

STARKVILLE, Miss. - The 19th-ranked Mississippi State women's basketball team will open play Thursday in the 10th annual Paradise Jam from St. Thomas, V.I. held at the University of the Virgin Islands. The Lady Bulldogs will play three games in three days including matchups with 13th-ranked Texas Thursday at 7 p.m. CT, Rutgers Friday at 4:45 p.m. CT and Southern California Saturday at 4:45 p.m.

Thursday's game will be broadcast on WFCA (107.9) in the Starkville area, but the Lady Bulldogs' Friday and Saturday games will not be available via radio. However, all three games will be available free of charge through internet audio streams at mstateathletics.com (on Maroon to the Max). To access those free streams, fans should simply visit the M2M live events page on mstateathletics.com at the time of each game and click on the audio icon associated with each contest. There is no need to register or sign up for Maroon to the Max to gain access.

All three games will also be available via live video streaming on Fox College Sports Broadband for a fee of $8 per game.

The Lady Bulldogs, ranked 22nd in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll, are off to a 4-0 start for the third consecutive season. State has defeated Arkansas-Pine Bluff, East Tennessee State, Utah Valley and are coming off a 29-point victory over 20th-ranked Maryland last week. State currently leads the Southeastern Conference in scoring margin, defeating their first four opponents by 40.8 points on average. State leads the conference in scoring offense (87.8 ppg) and is second in scoring defense, allowing opponents 47 points a game.

Senior guard Alexis Rack is pacing the Lady Bulldogs, averaging 22.3 points a contest. Rack was named SEC Player of the Week last week in large part to her career record 43-point performance against the Terrapins.

Texas enters Thursday's game with a 2-1 record this season. UT is led in scoring by junior guard Kathleen Nash who is scoring 16 points a game.

Thursday's game with the Longhorns will be the second in the overall series between the two teams. In the only previous matchup, which came last season, Mississippi State downed Texas 71-63 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Columbus, Ohio.