STARKVILLE — Ole Miss bullied the Bulldogs in the paint to beat its biggest rival.

Madison Scott scored a career-high 30 points, and Ole Miss scored 42 points in the paint to beat Mississippi State 71-63 in a women’s basketball game Sunday.

Ole Miss went 16 years between wins at MSU’s Humphrey Coliseum, but has now won two of the last three meetings there. The teams will not face each other again this season unless they meet up in the Southeastern Conference tournament.

Sira Thienou had 10 points and nine steals for Ole Miss (13-5, 4-2 Southeastern Conference), while Starr Jacobs had 15 points and eight rebounds.

Kennedy Todd-Williams also scored 11 points.

Thienou’s nine steals are the most by an Ole Miss player since 2006.

The Rebels won for the third time in four games. They’ll now have a week to prepare for a visit from No. 7 Texas next Sunday.

“I think every season there’s a turning point. Something happens that defines your team and who they want to be for the rest of the season,” Ole Miss coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin said. “If you followed us we’ve been in close games — lost some, been ahead, come from behind — but this one we had to gut out and we knew that, so really proud of our team today.”

Mississippi State (15-5, 2-4) lost its second game in a row after winning the previous two. The Bulldogs led at the end of the first quarter, and the game was tied 51-all heading into the fourth, and then they went cold.

The Bulldogs only scored 12 points on 5-of-14 shooting in the fourth quarter. Ole Miss was 8-of-13. Mississippi State had 23 turnovers in the game, which led to 26 points for Ole Miss.

Jerkaila Jordan led Mississippi State with 19 points, and Eniya Russell scored 15. Madina Okot had eight points and 12 rebounds.

“They scored 26 points off of our turnovers. That’s ballgame, people, all right?” Mississippi State coach Sam Purcell said. “And so when they get up in the open court, especially (Scott), she can run fast and make plays — make big time plays — in the open court and I thought that’s what she did tonight.”