Mississippi State Baseball vs Ole Miss/Missouri winner
What: Mississippi State vs Ole Miss/Missouri winner
When: 9:30 am CT Wednesday, May 20
Where: Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, Hoover, Ala.
TV: ESPN SEC Network
Radio: Mississippi State Radio Network
Play-by-Play: Neil Price
Analyst: Jay Powell/Ron Polk
2026 Radio Network Affiliates
City Station Frequency
Aberdeen WWZQ-AM 1240
Columbia WSSM-FM 104.9
Corinth WKCU-AM 1350
French Camp WFCA-FM* 107.0
Greenville WGVM-AM 1260
Greenwood WTCD-FM 96.9
Hattiesburg WMXI-FM* 107.1
Indianola WGVM-FM 97.3
Jackson WJQS-FM 106.3
Jackson WJQS-AM 1400
Meridian WMOX-AM* 1010
Monticello WRQO-FM 102.1
Natchez WANT-AM 1450
Philadelphia WWSL-FM* 102.3
Starkville WLZA-FM 96.1
Tupelo WCNA-FM 95.9
Vicksburg WVBG-FM* 105.5
Winona WONA-FM* 95.1
- All stations above will carry MSU’s 2026 baseball video games on the MSU Baseball Radio Network schedule. For non-network video games, solely WLZA-FM (96.1) within the Starkville space will broadcast.
* – Station will carry Coach Brian O’Connor’s weekly radio present, DawgTalk.
This itemizing is topic to alter
Mobile App: Varsity Network (Mississippi State)
Records/Rankings: No. 9 seed Ole Miss (36-20 total, 15-15 SEC) performs No. 16 Missouri (23-30, 6-24) within the first recreation of the SEC Tournament, Tuesday May 19 in Hoover at 9:30 am. Ole Miss is ranked fifteenth nationally by D1Baseball, nineteenth by USA Today and twenty fifth by Baseball America. The Rebels are 15 within the newest RPI rating. Missouri is unranked within the nationwide polls. The two groups didn’t play within the common season.
Mississippi State defeated Ole Miss 4 instances throughout the 2026 common season, sweeping the weekend collection from the Rebels in Oxford March 27-29 (5-4, 6-1, 7-1) and in a impartial website matchup in Pearl (7-3). The Diamond Dogs didn’t play Missouri throughout the ’26 season.
MSU Coach: Brian O’Connor holds a 957-404-2 total document in 23-plus seasons as a collegiate head coach.
Series History: As one may count on, Mississippi State and Ole Miss have met extra usually on the baseball diamond than towards every other respective opponent(s). MSU has the benefit within the all-time collection document 273-215-5.
Mississippi State has constructed a 16-7 lead in previous video games performed versus Missouri.
MSU Players to Watch: Mississippi State is hitting .314 as a staff, second-best amongst all SEC squads. MSU has 5 gamers hitting above the staff common via 55 video games. Outfielder Bryce Chance (.350) continues to steer the staff in batting, however his benefit has slipped over the previous few weeks. Chance is tenth within the SEC in hitting. Noah Sullivan (.347) emerged to second on the membership, thirteenth within the league, with an enormous weekend versus Texas A&M. Ace Reese (.332), Gehrig Frei (.330) and Jacob Parker (.326) are additionally above the staff common. Reese leads the membership in house runs (20) and runs batted in (67). He is tied for third within the league in house runs, fourth within the convention in RBI, and leads the loop in doubles (21). Chance is tied for third within the SEC with 18 doubles.
2026 MSU Team Hitting: .314, 102 HR, 444 RBI
State’s present .314 staff batting common could be the best at MSU since 2019. The staff’s 102 house runs are one in need of the varsity document 103 hit final spring.
2026 MSU Team Pitching: 39-16, 4.34 ERA, 610 Okay, 196 BB, 473 IP
Mississippi State is fifth within the league in earned run common, third within the SEC in most strikeouts; ninth in fewest walks.
2026 MSU Team Fielding: .977, 26 DP, 14 PB, .770 SBA Pct
Mississippi State is fifth within the league in fielding share.
