MC Table Tennis Team Earns 5th Place at Nationals

Mississippi College’s table tennis team wrapped up their third season on a high note with a 5th place finish in the national tournament in Wisconsin.

During the three-day tournament near Milwaukee, MC defeated schools like the University of Southern California, Virginia Tech, Minnesota, Baruch College (N.Y.) and Wisconsin.

photo credit: Brian Albert Broom/The Clarion-Ledger

Photos from the Yazoo City, Mississippi Tornado

A round up of articles from Steve Forbes’ visit to Mississippi College this week.

How many of you alumni would actually be able to pick this out of a lineup?

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The businessman and one time Presidential candidate will be speaking at the Mississippi College Spring Scholarship Banquet on March 29.

You can buy tickets here.

Mississippi College ranked 4th in Division III 2009 football attendance.

Yeah. This just happened:

Mississippi College is looking into the arrests last week of three football players on felony drug charges, a school official said this afternoon.

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Autry is charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine and possession with intent to deliver marijuana. Evans is charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine, possession with intent to deliver marijuana and possession of paraphernalia. And Willis is charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine, possession with intent to deliver marijuana and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

MC street cred? Up.

The snow photos from Mississippi College are incredible.

So, Tiger Woods’ wife was spotted at Turtle Creek Mall in Hattiesburg? I’m assuming that any positive experience the residents of H’burg provided were immediately erased when she bumped into the kiosk perfume vendors.

Thought about the since-moved ECHL team while watching hockey over the weekend.

They were alot of fun to watch, weren’t they? Still remember during our freshmen year at MC how they sold out (~6,500 seats) multiple weekend games during their inaugural year. Ahhhh, hockey in the South. People show up for fights on the ice and cheap beer in the stands, only to have their team moved after 3 years because we are confused about the rules, and get bored after the 2nd Period (1,139 in attendance at their last game).

In any case… I miss them, and Jackson was a better city with them.

The King Edward Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi finally reopened. This truly makes me happy.

After the first date I went on with Chelsea in the Spring of 2002, I dared her to walk into an old busted door in the abandoned behemoth. I didn’t think she’d do it. It was a scary building in one of the worst parts of town. But she did. It was awesome.

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Apartment Photos

Jackson, Mississippi is #3.

Who said D-III is no fun to watch?

A whopping 2,086 in attendance. Way to represent, Montgomery. Game photos here.

MC will play next week at Wesley College.

All the details here.

$20 says that Ty does some sort of cheesy “Here’s the plan, gang!” gag on the Southern Miss football field.

[credit: wife-y]

The Division III brackets have been set. The Choctaws will play the first round of the playoffs in Montgomery, AL. The Choctaws’ last appearance in the postseason was a 35-7 loss to Jacksonville State University in the 1991 NCAA Division II playoffs.

This should be an easy trip for those alumni in Birmingham, and a day trip for folks from the Jackson metro area.

What are we up against?

Huntingdon College does not belong to a Division III conference but received one of the nine at-large bids to the tournament as an independent. Huntingdon features an offense that leads all of Division III averaging 525.8 yards of total offense per game.

What do we have?

The Choctaws have been led this season by senior quarterback Adam Shaffer who has thrown 29 touchdowns with just eight interceptions. Shaffer has completed 200-332 passes for 2,577 yards and holds MC career records for passing yards (8,987 yards), touchdown passes (87) and pass completions (668). Shaffer is two touchdown passes shy of his own single season school record of 31 touchdown tosses set in 2007.

On the ground the Choctaws feature the ASC’s leading rusher in Steven Knight. The former Northwest Rankin High School standout has rushed for 1,181 yards this year with nine touchdowns.

Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.

When Coach Joseph came to campus he promised a championship and a run at the playoffs. It only took him 4 years to completely rebuild this program to win the most difficult conference in D-III football.

The Choctaws will find out tomorrow who they will face next weekend in the first round of the Division III playoffs. The NCAA Division III Playoff selection show will be at 2:00 p.m. on ESPNews. Their is a possibility the Choctaws could be playing at home.

After rising to #13 the D-III polls, MC fell at Homecoming, dropping to #22, only to rebound this week

The Choctaws are 7-2 overall, leading to the following sentence, which is past due:

The win puts the Choctaws one win away from the NCAA playoffs and their first ASC Championship since 1998.

Who are we playing this week? Texas Lutheran… who’s 0-9 record makes us smile.