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The top 10 stories in Mississippi in 2017

The Mississippi State women's basketball program will play for a national championship after its shocking upset of UConn on Friday. How did they do it? Clarion-Ledger sports editor Hugh Kellenberger and MSU beat writer Will Sammon try to explan what happened on a crazy night. Hugh Kellenberger and Will Sammon

The year of 2017 was dominated by scandal — Ole Miss, the NCAA and Hugh Freeze account for three of the top 10 stories of the year and influenced at least one more. But there was also room for some good, and one incredible, goosebumps-inducing story tops our list.