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Ole Miss Football: Rebels’ Performance Forces Defenders to Admit Defeat
The one game Ole Miss needed to win ended up in defeat. Now all those who spent the year bragging on the Rebels must face the music.
I enjoy the art of trash talking. I’m not mean or personal with my trash talk. I don’t call names or insult people. My style is not to cuss at you or threaten to call your employer. However, I do take pleasure in rubbing the success of my Ole Miss Rebels in the face of other teams that are not doing as well. Unfortunately, Ole Miss struggled this year. Therefore, now I’m forced to admit defeat to all the people I battled on social media.
In my defense, our team was supposed to be good this year. We brought back the most experienced quarterback. Our receivers were some of the best in the conference. Even our defensive line was supposed to be stout. However, 5-7 is 5-7. There is no way around that.
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Ole Miss Women’s Basketball Drops Heartbreaker in Las Vegas
Photos by Joshua McCoy/Ole Miss Athletics
Twitter: @OleMissPix
The Ole Miss women’s basketball team dropped a heartbreaker in the championship of the Lady Rebel Round-Up, 65-57, to host UNLV. The loss was the first of the season for the Rebels and moves them to 5-1 on the year, which is the best start to the Matt Insell era.
Ole Miss (5-1) led for 15:50 of the contest but went cold in the third quarter, scoring just nine points allowing the home team to get back in the game and take a 48-42 lead, which they wouldn’t let for of for the remainder of the contest. For the second straight contest, Madinah Muhammad (Chicago, Ill.) posted a new career-high with 24 points. Muhammad is the first Rebel to record back-to-back 20-point games this season. Shandricka Sessom (Byhalia Miss.) led the rebounding efforts with six rebounds.
Ole Miss outshot UNLV 40 percent (21-of-52) to 35 percent (18-of-51), but the host team won the battle of the boards, 42-28.
Leading at the break for the fifth time this season, Ole Miss jumped out to a 38-33 lead courtesy of the trey out of the gates from Sessom her first triple of the night. The home team wouldn’t go quietly as they fought back and made it a two-possession game midway through and from that point it was a back-and-forth affair. Ole Miss went through a 3:24 scoring drought in the third quarter as the home team pulled took a 53-44 lead with 4:21 left in the contest, which proved to be the difference maker.
The first quarter started slow as neither team could get much going, but Muhammad was again on fire for Ole Miss with six of the Rebels first eight points as they took a 8-6 lead at the first media timeout.
Ole Miss used the momentum on the defensive end with a trey at the end of the quarter from Muhammad took an 11-16 lead.
The second quarter was close as a quarter could be in the game of basketball. The teams were tied at 18 for nearly three minutes and Ole Miss went cold from the floor, recording just two buckets in the first five minutes of the quarter. Both teams got after it in the second half of the quarter, as Ole Miss posted 13 points last in the quarter, including treys from Muhammad and Torri Lewis (Olive Branch, Miss.) to take a 33-31 lead at halftime.
Ole Miss shot 55 percent in the first half (12-of-22) and the first half featured seven ties and four leads changes.
Rebel Sidelines
-UNLV takes a 2-1 lead in the series with the win today.
-Erika Sisk is five points from her 1,000th career point.
-Ole Miss is one win away from its 800th program win. Ole Miss will be of six SEC school to reach the 800th program win milestone.
-The Rebels had an issue with their bus so instead of taking a charter bus to the game; Ole Miss arrived to the gym via limousine. #OnlyInVegas
-Today’s game was Ole Miss first true road game. Including today’s game, Ole Miss will play two of its next three away from Oxford.
-Madinah Muhammad posted her second consecutive game of 20+ points with a career-best points. She’s the first Rebel to record back-to-back 20-point games this season.
Up Next
Ole Miss will return back to Oxford for the 14th annual Kids Game on Thursday vs. Jackson State. Tipoff is scheduled for 11:00 AM CT. For ticket information go to OleMissTix.com or call the Ole Miss Ticket Office at 1-888-REB-TKTS (732-8587).
Next Five Games
Dec. 1 – vs. Jackson State@
Dec. 4 – at West Virginia#
Dec. 10 – vs. Louisiana Monroe 1 PM
Dec. 14 – vs. Oregon 6 PM
Dec. 17 – vs. VCU 1 PM
@-14th Annual Kids Game
#-SEC/Big 12 Challenge
Keep Up With the Rebels
Keep up to date with the Ole Miss women’s basketball team throughout the season on social media. For all Ole Miss women’s basketball news and information, go to OleMissSports.com, and follow the Rebels on Twitter at @OleMissWBB, Facebook at Ole Miss WBB on Instagram at Ole MissWBB and on Snapchat with the handle @OleMissWBB. Fans can also follow Ole Miss women’s basketball head coach Matt Insell on Twitter at @minsell.
Courtesy of Ole Miss Sports
Ole Miss Volleyball Sweeps South Carolina on Senior Night
On a night when the Ole Miss volleyball team honored lone senior Aubrey Edie, the Rebels sent their record-breaking setter out on a winning note, shutting out South Carolina 3-0 in front of a great crowd Friday night at The Pavilion at Ole Miss.
The Rebels closed out the season at The Pavilion 8-5 and set a school record season attendance mark with 10,006 fans as well as a record average attendance of 770. In 2017 they will return to the newly renovated Gillom Sports Center.
After celebrating her recording-breaking career in a pre-match ceremony, the Rebels made sure Edie would leave the court for the last time a winner, jumping on the Gamecocks early and finishing off their second sweep in SEC play.
The Rebels hit .353 in set one and held South Carolina to .103. Junior outside hitter Lexi Thompson paved the way with six kills on a .444 clip. Ole Miss used a 10-4 run to break open the set and never looked back, winning it 25-17 to take the early momentum.
Junior outside hitter Kate Gibson and Thompson combined for nine kills in set two as the Rebels hit .400 and kept the pressure on South Carolina. Leading by one, the Rebels went on a 9-0 run to blow it open 16-6. The Gamecocks never got closer than five as Ole Miss closed out the set 25-16 to take a 2-0 lead in the match.
South Carolina came out of the break with a little more energy and took a 10-6 lead in set three, but the Rebels used a 10-4 run to regain the lead, 16-14. They never relinquished it again, winning 25-19 for the 3-0 final.
Quick Hits
• Ole Miss finished the season 17-14 overall and 6-12 in the SEC, winning two of their last three matches.
• The Rebels earned their second shutout in SEC play.
• Playing in The Pavilion while the Gillom Sports Center
• The Rebels hit .340, while holding South Carolina to just .116.
• The Rebels have posted three consecutive winning seasons for the first time since posting five straight from 1982-86.
• Lexi Thompson posted her SEC-leading 21st double-double with 14 kills and 10 digs, while hitting .321.
• With 437 kills this season, Thompson set the single-season record.
• Kate Gibson tallied her 16th double-double with 10 kills and 10 digs. She finished right behind Thompson with 427 kills on the season.
• Senior Aubrey Edie recorded her 14th double-double with 37 assists and 11 digs in her final match for the Rebels.
• Edie ended her career with a record 4,834 assists, surpassing the previous record-holder by more than a 1,000 assists.
• With 1,307 assists this season, Edie now owns the top three single-season marks in school history.
• Junior middle blocker Taylor Alexander finished with eight kills on a .667 clip, marking six straight matches for her to have at least eight kills. She hit above .300 in 17 matches in this season.
• Sophomore Kathryn Cather added eight kills on a .412 clip from the right side.
For more information on Ole Miss Volleyball, follow the Rebels on Twitter, @OleMissVB, on Facebook at OleMissVolleyball and on Instagram at OleMissVB. Also follow Coach McRoberts on Twitter, @CoachMcRoberts.
Courtesy of Ole Miss Sports
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