The Daily Mississippian men’s basketball beat writer Tyler Bischoff will break down Ole Miss basketball each Tuesday and Thursday leading up to 2013-14 season. In part three of the seven-part series, Bischoff looks at Aaron Jones excelling on the defensive side of the ball. As junior forward Aaron Jones returns from a season ending ACL tear, he will assume a major...
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The way Ole Miss responds to Tuesday night’s 87-74 loss to Kentucky will define the season. Ole Miss could lose more than its first SEC game. Several media outlets reported Wednesday that sophomore forward Aaron Jones is out for the season after sustaining a torn ACL in Tuesday’s loss to Kentucky, while senior guard Nick Williams is out indefinitely with a foot injury. With...
Too little, too late for Ole Miss. After being down by as many as 17 with just over 10 minutes to go in the first half, No. 16 Ole Miss (17-3, 6-1 SEC) used a 16-0 run to get back in the game and cut the lead to one, but Kentucky (14-6, 5-2 SEC) used a 14-2 run of their own to end the game, as they handed the Rebels their first loss in SEC play, 87-74, Tuesday night. Alex...
Senior forward Murphy Holloway needed just five rebounds against Kentucky to become the all-time leading rebounder in Ole Miss history. He accomplished that in the second half of the Rebels’ 87-74 loss, as he finished the game with eight rebounds. Tyler Jackson/The Daily Mississippian In doing so, Holloway broke Walter Actwood’s 36-year record of 945 career rebounds....
The 16th-ranked Ole Miss Rebels (17-2, 6-0 SEC) will square off with the Kentucky Wildcats (13-6, 4-2 SEC) tonight at 8 p.m. on ESPN in the Tad Smith Coliseum. It will be the Rebels’ third game in a six-day span. Thomas Graning | The Daily MississippianJunior guard Marshall Henderson reacts after scoring against Tennessee This year’s team is off to the best start in...
It took him a while, but junior guard Marshall Henderson finally got heated up and propelled Ole Miss (16-2, 5-0 SEC) to its eighth straight win and a 5-0 conference record, tied for the best start in conference play in Rebel history, in a 62-56 win over Tennessee (9-8, 1-4 SEC) in front of an announced crowd of 9,206, the third consecutive sellout for Ole Miss. Henderson...
The excitement surrounding the 23rd-ranked Ole Miss basketball team is higher than it’s been in a long time in Oxford, and tonight, the Rebels (15-2, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) will put their undefeated conference record on the line against the Tennessee Volunteers (9-7, 1-3 SEC). Ole Miss traveled to Knoxville and knocked off Tennessee 92-74 on Jan. 9 in the SEC opener....
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 Coliseum was sold out. The support isn’t lost on head coach...
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