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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...

Ole Miss basketball will have their fourth consecutive sellout at Tad Smith Coliseum tonight when the No. 16 Rebels host defending national champion Kentucky. For a program that’s historically been an afterthought for the fan base, especially with the emergence of Ole Miss baseball under head coach Mike Bianco, four sellouts in a season would be noteworthy, much less...