BOONEVILLE - The future of the Northeast Mississippi Community College athletic department changed for the better 50 years ago.
Women’s basketball was reinstated by Northeast during the 1973-74 school year. The sport was discontinued by each of the two-year institutions across the Magnolia State some 17 years earlier.
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