A successful season on the basketball court for the Starkville Lady Yellow Jackets was rewarded even before it began.

The Tupelo High School girls basketball team won its second consecutive Class 7A state championship, defeating Starkville 62-57 in overtime. Tupelo trailed by as many as 13 points in the game ...

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The news of Schaefer's hire sent shockwaves through the college basketball landscape, but nowhere were the reverberations felt more than in Starkville. Over eight seasons there, Schaefer went 221 ...

Tupelo and Starkville will hit the court on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. CT. Don't miss out on any of the action with NFHS Network. The NFHS Network gives you access to live high school sports ...