STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Shane Power had 18 points and Marcus Campbell added 13 points and 11 rebounds to lead Mississippi State to a 71-57 rout of Florida on Tuesday night.
Lawrence Roberts also had 13 points and 11 rebounds for Mississippi State (17-5, 5-3 Southeastern Conference), which used a huge second half to win their 11th straight at home and beat the Gators for the third time in four meetings.
The Bulldogs didn't trail after halftime and shut down the SEC's most productive offense. Florida (13-5, 5-2) went cold in the second half - the Gators had just five field goals in the final 15 minutes - and finished well shy of its scoring average of 82.1.
Campbell had something to do with that. The 7-footer finished three blocks shy of becoming the second player in school history - and the second on the Bulldogs' team - with a triple-double.
Roberts, who had Mississippi State's first triple-double earlier this season, fought through a steady barrage of double-teams to help his team improve to 9-0 at home this season.
Anthony Roberson led Florida with 17 points, and David Lee had 15 points and 12 rebounds.
The Bulldogs put this one away with two big second-half runs.
Mississippi State broke a 39-all tie with a 10-2 run early in the half, taking the lead for good on Roberts' dunk with 15:20 left and held the Gators without a field goal for more than five minutes.
Then, after Florida closed to 50-47, the Bulldogs sealed it with a 21-4 run to close the game, a spurt featuring 12 straight points, an 18-point lead and a nearly six-minute stretch in which the Gators went scoreless.
The Bulldogs haven't been beaten at Humphrey Coliseum since a one-point loss to Kentucky on Jan. 13, 2003.
Mississippi State seemed to be in a funk, losing three of five since guard Winsome Frazier broke his foot. The Bulldogs came home after their third straight road loss, a 69-62 defeat at LSU which knocked them out of the national rankings for the first time since December 2003.
Neither team led this one by more than seven during the first half, which had five ties and seven lead changes.
The Bulldogs struggled again early from the perimeter without Frazier, starting 1-of-7 from 3-point range. But Power found a groove in the second half, scoring 10 of his points in the final 20 minutes, and his 3-pointer with 6:29 remaining pushed Mississippi State's lead into double figures to stay.