When the Mississippi State Men’s Basketball team made it to the Final Four in 1996, I was a 17 year old junior in high school. I’m the only writer on this site who contributes regularly that is old enough to remember it vividly, which either makes me really old or them really young. Or maybe it’s both.
It’s my fondest memory as a Bulldog fan. If the Bulldogs had won the 1998 SEC Championship Game or if the baseball team had won the National Championship in 2013, those would have replaced it. But one of the things I clearly remember from that incredible run to the Meadowlands, was the fact I knew it was all going to come crashing down once the Bulldogs were finished playing in the 1996 NCAA Tournament.