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Ole Miss, Southern Miss baseball ranked in USA TODAY preseason poll

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Among the nation's proudest college baseball states and the home of the two most recent national champions, Mississippi placed two teams in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll.

, coming off a title-winning season, enters the poll at No. 7.

The Rebels turned a disappointing 2022 regular season into a postseason for the ages, going unbeaten through the regional and super regional rounds, and eventually topping Oklahoma for the program's first national title.

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The headline returner for the Rebels is shortstop Jacob Gonzalez, who posted a .963 OPS and 18 home runs last season.

Southern Miss also…

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In NIT, Southern Miss basketball to face UAB in opener

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Southern Miss men's basketball is heading to the NIT for the first time since 2014.

The Golden Eagles will face UAB in the first round of the 2023 NIT on Tuesday (6:30 p.m., ESPN+), having learned their postseason fate Sunday.

Coach Jay Ladner – the Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year – guided Southern Miss (25-7) to its third regular-season conference championship and first since 2000-01. The regular-season title clinched an automatic bid for the Golden Eagles despite a 78-61 quarterfinals loss to South Alabama in the conference tournament March 4.

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Alcorn (18-13), which won the…

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Mississippi Legislature moves through another major deadline Wednesday

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Another legislative deadline came and went Wednesday, with all bills having to move past the floor of the chamber they did not originate in, and a number of the most watched bills remain alive.

Some big pieces of legislation died though, including one of the most important ones related to the city of .

See what made it past Wednesday's deadline, and what did not.

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Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann, right, confers with Senate Judiciary A Committee Chairman Brice Wiggins, R-Pascagoula, during the morning session of the Mississippi Legislature in Jackson, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023.

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Senate Bill 2889 failed to pass the House in any version before the deadline.

It would have created the Mississippi Capital Region Utility Authority, taking ownership of Jackson's troubled and…

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Madison Booker is Mississippi Gatorade Girls Basketball Player of Year

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signee Madison Booker was selected as the Gatorade Mississippi Girls Basketball Player of the Year on Wednesday. The McDonald's All-American selection helped lead Germantown to its first championship in program history last week.

Booker had 26 points, 11 and four steals as the Mavericks (29-2) defeated Tupelo 64-43 in the MHSAA Class 6A title game. She helped lead Germantown to three consecutive trips to the state semifinals and two championship games.

The five-star recruit averaged 20 points, eight rebounds, 2.8 assists, 2.6 steals and 1.1 steals per game. Booker was…

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