Mississippi State is hosting the SEC Outdoor Track and Field Championships for the first time since 2002 at the Mike Sanders Track Complex.
The Bulldogs’ 18th-ranked men’s team and 19th-ranked women’s team hope that the familiar confines just might give them the edge they need in an event featuring 18 teams ranked in the Top 25 nationally.
“If you practice at the same place all the time, there’s got to be some advantage to that,” said MSU track coach Steve Dudley. “But ultimately everybody’s got to run the same distance and jump the same height or distance and throw.