Jarvis Varnado had 14 points and blocked four shots and Mississippi State overcame walk-on Ricky McPhee's 3-point barrage to beat Georgia 67-61 on Saturday night.
North Carolina State's Kay Yow, the Hall of Fame women's basketball coach who won more than 700 games while earning fans with her decades-long fight against breast cancer, died Saturday. She was 66.
Ashley Houts scored 18 points, Angel Robinson had 16 and Georgia beat a ranked opponent for the first time this season with a 66-55 victory over No. 17 Vanderbilt on Thursday night.
Alabama coach Nick Saban has hired James Willis, a top assistant and recruiter at cross-state rival Auburn, to be the Crimson Tide's linebackers coach and to bolster the recruiting team.
The North Georgia baseball team is picked to finished second in the Peach Belt Conference according to the 2009 preseason coaches poll released Tuesday from the conference office.