Welcome to the Barnyard with Steve Robertson. As always, I am your good friend and host, Steve Robertson, here on the magnificent Monday edition of the yard, it's already been a busy day.

Hope to have this show up for you by 5 o'clock. We'll see. You got some things to do, and then I've got to hustle back to campus.

As I mentioned, it's already been a busy day. We had a press conference with

Coach Chris Jans this morning, followed by Zach Arnett. A couple things we'll tell you. I'll get

a little bit deeper into Arnett's comments later, but probably the biggest news of the day is

Chris Jans revealing that Shaquille Moore. Mississippi State's very talented guard will not be

available this Wednesday against Arizona State.

State's already going to be a little bit short-handed in that ballgame, as you're well aware.

And now one of your most prolific outside shooters, if State had one last year, not available.

Certainly not a good development.

State's going to have their hands full with Arizona State on Wednesday

We'll have full coverage if what I hear is correct

Steph from the ledger and Justin Framer of course in Jeans page will be the only two

Mississippi State media members in attendance and we're happy to provide you full coverage from Chicago.

And so we'll have that.

But, yeah, pretty interesting development.

We'll preview that game Wednesday morning to kind of get you prepared for that.

It felt really good about state's prospects.

And then you find out now that Shaq Moore's not going to play.

And so, Josh, is you going to have to step up? Yeah, for sure. And interesting notes,

obviously, you know, with Coach Jans, you know, we all know that we expect to have a good year

this year, but we're going to

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