All-Conference star Terren Ward set to transfer to Mississippi State from Georgia Southern

Another addition to the 2024-25 Mississippi State women’s basketball roster is in for coach Sam Purcell.

Georgia Southern’s Terren Ward announced her commitment to the Bulldogs on Tuesday. As reported by Maroon and White Daily on Sunday afternoon, Ward was on campus over the weekend for an official visit and would choose State. Prior to her visit to MSU, she took an official to Georgia but would cancel her next two visits to Clemson and Pittsburgh after visiting Starkville.

Ward played for current State assistant Anita Howard but has been a Bulldog target prior to Howard’s arrival to the staff. The standout 5’11 guard was one of the top players in the Sun Belt Conference this season after landing four conference Player of the Week honors.

In four years, Ward earned Sun Belt Freshman of the Year honors, Sixth Woman of the Year and a second-team All-Sun Belt as a sophomore and first-team selection each of the last two years.

She finished her career there playing in 106 games, starting in 69 contests, shooting 41% from the field, 35% from 3-point range and 77% from the line. Ward scored 1,746 points, pulled down 802 rebounds and had 188 assists with 186 steals over the course of her career.

It was a great career at Georgia Southern but her senior season was exceptional. Ward averaged 22.0 points per game and pulled down 9.1 rebounds while dishing out 1.9 assists a game for her team this year in 29 games played. Amazingly, she scored 20 or more points in 21 of the 29 games played with just two contests all year in single digits.

Despite her guard tag, Ward had 14 double-doubles on the season. She put together 10-straight games of 20 or more points in the middle of the season and had a career-high 35 points against Appalachian State while grabbing 11 rebounds.

After averaging 7.9 points and 4.6 boards her on the way to Freshman of the Year honors in the Sun Belt, Ward was Sixth Woman of the year in 2021-22 with 15.3 points and 7.6 boards. She had 18.4 points a game last year while rebounding at an 8.2 clip.

Ward joins a State roster that is coming together now. The Bulldogs have picked up transfer portal players and guards Eniya Russell from Kentucky, Chandler Prater from Oklahoma State and point guard Denim DeShields to go along with Ward.

With the addition of Ward in her final season of eligibility, State is up to 13 roster players for the 2024-25 season with the inclusion of three freshmen on their way into the program this summer.