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Missouri State basketball tops South Dakota State in critical mid-major showdown

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The Bears are starting to play really good basketball and they earned their best victory of the season to prove it.

Missouri State (7-4, 0-1) came out on the winning end of a 75-63 victory over South Dakota State (9-4) on Wednesday night at JQH Arena.

The win is MSU's best of the season as it came against one of the top mid-majors in college basketball. SDSU came into the game ranked No. 98 in the most recent NET rankings.

The Bears took a 40-33 lead into halftime after starting the first half shooting 53.