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The culture of Ole Miss basketball seems to be changing. The Rebels, who are 15-2 overall, are winning in a fashion not seen in more than 70 years. Quentine Winstine | The Daily Mississippian The fans are taking notice, too. For the first two home conference games against Missouri and Arkansas, the Tad Smith...

After head coach Adrian Wiggins was fired in October, interim women’s basketball head coach Brett Frank had his back against the wall. So far, he’s made the best of a messy situation, as the Lady Rebels are 7-11 overall and 0-5 in SEC play. Ole Miss has had some close calls this year against LSU, Alabama and, most recently, a 73-72 overtime loss to Missouri. Vince...

Austin McAfee | The Daily Mississippian The past year has been quite a turnaround for Ole Miss athletics, especially Rebel football. At this time last year, it seemed like nothing was going right for any athletics program on campus. Head football coach Hugh Freeze was working tirelessly on the recruiting trail hoping to get Ole Miss out of the SEC cellar, while hoping...

Cain Madden Ole Miss handed Arkansas(11-6, 2-2 SEC) a 76-64 defeat on Saturday in Oxford, improving the Rebels SEC record to 4-0, the best mark to start conference play since the 1936-37 season. Junior guard Marshall Henderson led Ole Miss (15-2, 4-0 SEC) in scoring with 16 points, but the Rebels had five different players have double digit point games. “It’s the great...

After playing two different positions earlier during his time at Ole Miss — quarterback and wide receiver — senior Randall Mackey has found a new home at running back this season. It’s been a long process from where he started to now, but at running back, Mackey is finally starting to see the results he had hoped for. Mackey joined the Rebels in 2011 after being...

  1. Alabama (3-0, 1-0 SEC, 1st last week)   If anyone wasn’t already impressed with Alabama in the first two weeks of the season, they have to be after the Crimson Tide trampled the Arkansas Razorbacks on the road last weekend 52-0. Although Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson was sidelined with a head injury, it’s still really impressive what Nick...

Thomas Graning | The Daily Mississippian Ole Miss had an opportunity to land a marquee win against a top-10 team and prevailed in impressive fashion. The Rebels held the 10th-ranked Missouri Tigers (12-3, 1-1 SEC) scoreless for the first 6:37 of the game, while building a nine-point lead. Ole Miss never looked back and won 64-49 in front of an announced crowd of 9,173...

Austin McAfee | The Daily Mississippian Ole Miss’ 38-17 win over Pittsburgh in Saturday’s BBVA Compass Bowl not only gave the Rebels their seventh win and a winning record, it was a perfect way to end head coach Hugh Freeze’s first year at the helm. When Freeze took over, five wins was a stretch and getting to a bowl game was going to be near impossible....

    Quentin Winstine | The Daily Mississippian BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Ole Miss punctuated a turnaround season with a 38-17 win against Pittsburgh in the BBVA Compass Bowl in Birmingham on Saturday. A five-win improvement and the program’s first winning season since 2009 sends the Rebels (7-6) into an offseason filled with optimism.  “It’s more important now...

Quentin Winstine | The Daily Mississippian   BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Ole Miss returned to postseason play for the first time since 2010. In front of a BBVA Compass Bowl-record 59,135 fans, the Rebels cruised to a 38-17 win over Pittsburgh to finish the season 7-6, the program’s first winning season since 2009.    It was the program’s fifth-straight bowl win,...