Matthew Bonnette

McNeese will go up against its second nationally ranked team of the season on Saturday when the Cowboys take on 25th-ranked Mississippi State as part of the Magnolia Madness event at Tupelo’s Cadence Bank Arena.

McNeese long snapper Jovoni Borbon has earned All-American honors by Stats Perform, garner third team honors, the organization released on Wednesday.

Sincere Parker scored 20 of his game-high 22 points in the second half and McNeese outscored Louisiana-Lafayette 10-1 in the final 4:47.

McNeese scored the game’s first 12 points, led 28-5 late in the first half, and never looked back as the Cowboys cruised to a 79-51 win over Southeastern on Monday night in Southland Conference action.

McNeese’s Masked Cowboy, Javohn Garcia, led the way with 25 points against Nicholls on Saturday, scoring 20 of those in the second half.

McNeese got a hot start to begin both the first and second halves and built several 20-plus point leads on its way to a 75-59 win over HCU here Monday night to remain the only unbeaten Southland Conference team in league play and giving head coach Will Wade his 230th career victory.

McNeese sent Lamar back across the border empty handed on Saturday afternoon as the Cowboys defeated the Cardinals, 75-64, in the annual Battle of the Boarder rivalry game in front of a near sellout crowd of 4,081 in the Legacy Center.

Monday started out with a changing of the guard at the Nation’s Capitol. It ended with a somewhat changing of the guard in the Southland Conference when McNeese whipped Stephen F. Austin, 79-59.

The McNeese Cowboys shook the valley on Saturday and solidified its strong hold on the Southland Conference standings with a dominating performance that saw Christian Shumate record his 1,000th career rebound in a 93-63 win over UTRGV.

Brandon Murray’s layup with 56 seconds to play gave McNeese a 74-70 lead, and a final Texas A&M Corpus Christi attempt to tie the game with under three seconds to play fell off the mark as the Cowboys pulled out a 74-73 win over the Islanders in a battle of the top two teams in the Southland Conference.