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State’s Hubbard Earns SEC Community Service Team Honors For 2nd Straight Year
March 05, 2026 | Men's Basketball
by Matt Dunaway, Director/Communications
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Mississippi State's Josh Hubbard was recognized once again for his outstanding accomplishments beyond the court as one of 16 players on the SEC's Community Service Team announced Thursday by the league office.
Hubbard, a two-time SEC Academic Honor Roll recipient, carries a 3.03 GPA with a major in human development and family science. He was presented with the 2026 Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup award last week leading into the Missouri game for his exceptional leadership, his character and his commitment to community service in addition to being named to the 2025-26 All State NACDA Good Works Winter Team.
Hubbard has used his platform and his resources through Name Image Likeness in numerous community efforts. He founded The Josh Hubbard Showcase, a basketball camp which has hosted around 200 aspiring athletes in his hometown of Madison, Mississippi and awarded approximately $40,000 in scholarship money over the last two April's.
Hubbard has partnered with Make-A-Wish Mississippi in 2025-26 where he has launched the "Buckets for Wishes" campaign where every three-point shot he makes results in donations from sponsors and donors, directly funding wishes for children in Mississippi. His campaign has already granted 11 wishes for children, most recently a trip to Disney World for one young boy in early March and has raised over $75,000.
Hubbard spent an afternoon in December 2025 handing out close to 100 gifts he purchased at Children's of Mississippi Hospital in Jackson, the same hospital where he was a patient for 19 days at 9 years old in September 2014. As a child, he was diagnosed and treated for Kawasaki disease which is a condition causing inflammation in the walls of some blood vessels in the body.
Hubbard teamed with his showcase, Aerus, and US Foods for helping provide food and donations to Ballas Family Community Kitchen, which serves 200 meals a day to the Greenwood, Mississippi, community in November 2025.
Hubbard worked closely with Delbert Hosemann, the Lieutenant Governor in the State of Mississippi, on a public awareness effort and campaign to reduce rates of chronic absenteeism among school children last spring.
State returns to Humphrey Coliseum for its regular season finale versus Georgia on Saturday afternoon. Tip time is slated for 2:30 p.m. CT with the game being televised by the SEC Network and streaming available online courtesy of the ESPN app.
Fans can purchase tickets for Saturday's game through Mississippi State's Athletic Ticket Office at www.HailState.com/tickets or by calling (662) 325-2600 / (888) 463-2947 (GO DAWGS).
2026 SEC Community Service Team
Amere Brown – Arkansas
Jaylen Carey – Tennessee
Rueben Chinyelu – Florida
Zach Day – Ole Miss
Tae Davis – Oklahoma
Josh Hubbard – State
Houston Mallette – Alabama
Mackenzie Mgbako – Texas A&M
Marcus Millender – Georgia
Malachi Moreno – Kentucky
Emeka Opurum – Auburn
Trent Pierce – Missouri
Jordan Reed – LSU
Myles Stute – South Carolina
Tyler Tanner – Vanderbilt
Chendall Weaver – Texas
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Mississippi State's Josh Hubbard was recognized once again for his outstanding accomplishments beyond the court as one of 16 players on the SEC's Community Service Team announced Thursday by the league office.
Hubbard, a two-time SEC Academic Honor Roll recipient, carries a 3.03 GPA with a major in human development and family science. He was presented with the 2026 Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup award last week leading into the Missouri game for his exceptional leadership, his character and his commitment to community service in addition to being named to the 2025-26 All State NACDA Good Works Winter Team.
Hubbard has used his platform and his resources through Name Image Likeness in numerous community efforts. He founded The Josh Hubbard Showcase, a basketball camp which has hosted around 200 aspiring athletes in his hometown of Madison, Mississippi and awarded approximately $40,000 in scholarship money over the last two April's.
Hubbard has partnered with Make-A-Wish Mississippi in 2025-26 where he has launched the "Buckets for Wishes" campaign where every three-point shot he makes results in donations from sponsors and donors, directly funding wishes for children in Mississippi. His campaign has already granted 11 wishes for children, most recently a trip to Disney World for one young boy in early March and has raised over $75,000.
Hubbard spent an afternoon in December 2025 handing out close to 100 gifts he purchased at Children's of Mississippi Hospital in Jackson, the same hospital where he was a patient for 19 days at 9 years old in September 2014. As a child, he was diagnosed and treated for Kawasaki disease which is a condition causing inflammation in the walls of some blood vessels in the body.
Hubbard teamed with his showcase, Aerus, and US Foods for helping provide food and donations to Ballas Family Community Kitchen, which serves 200 meals a day to the Greenwood, Mississippi, community in November 2025.
Hubbard worked closely with Delbert Hosemann, the Lieutenant Governor in the State of Mississippi, on a public awareness effort and campaign to reduce rates of chronic absenteeism among school children last spring.
State returns to Humphrey Coliseum for its regular season finale versus Georgia on Saturday afternoon. Tip time is slated for 2:30 p.m. CT with the game being televised by the SEC Network and streaming available online courtesy of the ESPN app.
Fans can purchase tickets for Saturday's game through Mississippi State's Athletic Ticket Office at www.HailState.com/tickets or by calling (662) 325-2600 / (888) 463-2947 (GO DAWGS).
2026 SEC Community Service Team
Amere Brown – Arkansas
Jaylen Carey – Tennessee
Rueben Chinyelu – Florida
Zach Day – Ole Miss
Tae Davis – Oklahoma
Josh Hubbard – State
Houston Mallette – Alabama
Mackenzie Mgbako – Texas A&M
Marcus Millender – Georgia
Malachi Moreno – Kentucky
Emeka Opurum – Auburn
Trent Pierce – Missouri
Jordan Reed – LSU
Myles Stute – South Carolina
Tyler Tanner – Vanderbilt
Chendall Weaver – Texas
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