The 2025-26 college basketball season began on Monday, and among the staggering 2,631 players who entered the transfer portal this offseason, only a select few had an instant impact.
The Auburn Tigers are just under two weeks out from the 2025-26 season opener against Bethune-Cookman, and they just received extremely positive injury news regarding one of Steven Pearl’s most important players.
New Auburn Tigers forward KeShawn Murphy left Starkville, Miss. for the Plains to the surprise of no one. In all honesty, Mississippi State is not really on the basketball map right now, and Auburn just played in a Final Four. As a result, the transfer to Auburn made the most sense for the 6-foot-10 post player.
The transfer portal keeps on rolling. Mississippi State lost a slew of men's basketball players through the transfer portal - and is getting a few of its own - and now there's salt rubbed in the wound.
Auburn lost in the Final Four to Florida, ending their national title hopes. With that loss, most of Auburn’s rotation graduated, leaving them with massive holes to fill.
Chris Youngblood scored a season-high 27 points and matched his career best of seven 3-pointers to help No. 6 Alabama demolish No. 24 Mississippi State 111-73.
Josh Hubbard scored 16 points and KeShawn Murphy added 14 to lead No. 22 Mississippi State to a 76-75 win at Georgia on Saturday. Coming off consecutive 20-plus point games, Hubbard made 7-of-14 attempts from the field.
And why not? Mississippi State has the offensive talent, it had the energy of the crowd, and it had the game flow going its way enough to matter. But you can’t beat Alabama by making it about cranking up the O.
KeShawn Murphy came off the bench to score 20 points Wednesday night, leading five Mississippi State players in double figures during a 90-57 blasting of No.
KeShawn Murphy scored 14 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and No. 25 Mississippi State dominated UNLV inside in an 80-58 victory in the Arizona Tip-Off on Thursday night in Tempe, Ariz.
STARKVILLE, Miss. — The Mississippi State Bulldogs were in the middle of a two-game losing skid when long-time starter D.J. Jeffries went down with an injury.
STARKVILLE, Miss. — The Mississippi State Bulldogs had a tough week last week, dropping a pair of games to Ole Miss and Alabama. The Bulldogs have dropped to 3-6 in SEC play. MSU was without a pair of important players this week, as both Trey Fort and KeShawn Murphy were unavailable.
KeShawn Murphy scored 18 points off the bench, D.J. Jeffries added 13 and Mississippi State pulled away from North Texas for a 72-54 victory Sunday in Tupelo, Miss.
The Mississippi State men's basketball team dominated North Texas 72-54, but early on in the game, that final score seemed like an impossibility. The Bulldogs survived a tremendous comeback attempt by Murray State on Wednesday, but on Sunday, they found themselves down against North Texas in the first half.