NCAA Tournament helps create another super weekend for MSU

Starkville and the Mississippi State campus have been a little busy this weekend and it's hard not to notice.

If you wanted a Super Bulldog Weekend early this year, then you got it with all of the athletics activity going on.

It won't be much different in about a month from now when the officially-recognized spring homecoming happens at Mississippi State. What's taking place right now comes pretty close.

With just the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament in town, that has been enough to capture the attention of people from not only the state of Mississippi but other parts of the country. There has been also baseball, softball, track and tennis in the mix over the last three days. It's been enough to keep a variety of MSU fans entertained just like a Super Bulldog Weekend does.

On the women's hoops front, the field for the first and second rounds in Starkville included the host Bulldogs, the Southern University Jaguars, the Clemson Tigers and the South Dakota Coyotes.

MSU head coach Vic Schaefer checked on coach Dawn Plitzuwelt and her Coyotes before they left town on Saturday morning after they were eliminated on Friday night by the Tigers. Schaefer said the South Dakota team had nothing but good thoughts about the hospitality it received and how everything at Humphrey Coliseum was handled.

Schaefer was happy to hear that and it makes me proud also. With this being my hometown, it feels good anytime people visit here and have a positive experience.

That has been the case all season for Bulldog forward Anriel Howard.

Since coming to MSU as a graduate transfer from Texas A&M, Howard has been impressed with the family atmosphere surrounding women's basketball.

Friday night was her first postseason game with the