Mississippi College Basketball Team Will Get Paid To Lose 11 Of Its First 12 Games Of The Season

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00:00Mississippi College basketball team will get paid to lose 11 of its first 12 games of the season.

00:06Alcorn State might have the hardest non-conference schedule in college basketball.

00:11The Braves will get paid to lose at least 11 of their first 12 games.

00:16There is no way to predict the outcome of a college basketball game before it happens,

00:19but the odds are stacked against one of the worst teams in the country from a year ago.

00:23They don't have a choice.

00:25Alcorn State finished as the No. 330 team in the net rankings last season.

00:31Net rating measures a team's point differential per 100 possessions,

00:35calculated by subtracting the team's defensive rating, points allowed per 100 possessions,

00:39from its offensive rating, points scored per 100 possessions.

00:43There are currently 361 schools that are full members of a Division I basketball conference,

00:49plus four additional programs that are in transition from NCAA Division II.

00:54The Braves finished in the 92nd percentile, essentially 31st from last.

00:59They went 11-20 overall.

01:01This is not a knock on a program that is trying its best.

01:04It is hard to recruit to a town in Mississippi with a total population of approximately 1,000.

01:09It is even harder to compete with such few resources.

01:13Rather, this is just to point out the struggles of the Alcorn State team in recent years.

01:17The Braves lost their first 14 games of the year in 2024, and 2025 doesn't look much better.

01:25Alcorn State will begin this upcoming season with at least 11 losses.

01:29It will also play its first 15 games on the road.

01:32Oof.

01:33There may not be a more difficult 12-game stretch in the entire country.

01:370-12 is very much in play.

01:400-15 seems likely based on last year's results.

01:42This is the unfortunate reality for a school like Alcorn State.

01:47All of these big-name programs pay these smaller teams to lose.

01:51These first 12 games of the season will effectively serve as the funding for the program for the entire year.

01:56They don't have a choice but to play those games.

01:59Man, people really think we'd choose these schedules,

02:03Grambling State head coach Patrick Crary said recently.

02:06Wouldn't it be great if the Braves could pull an upset or two?

02:10They won't, but what if?