One National CBB Thought The NCAA did a good thing, sort of. In August, they released their new ranking system — the NCAA Evaluation Tool, or NET — which will replace the outdated and much chagrined Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) after a 37-year run. The change comes after years of disdain from coaches and analysts […]
Cinderella story Middle Tennessee State University had just defeated final-four favorite Michigan State in the 2015 NCAA Tournament and was preparing for the most important game in program history against Syracuse when senior guard Perrin Buford walked into team film study one minute late. Head coach Kermit Davis looked at his team leader and said, […]
Welcome to the 1-3-1, staff writer Griffin Neal’s weekly college basketball column. The title, “1-3-1,” is a hat tip to Kermit Davis’ defensive scheme but will also serve as the column’s section breakdown. Each week, the column will include one big idea regarding the college basketball landscape, three notes about Ole Miss hoops and one […]
Gliding down the court, not a jersey in front of him, Terence Davis rose up and flushed a two handed slam that officially marked the beginning of the Kermit Davis era of Ole Miss basketball. His opening-game dunk was the first two of 17 points he would score en route to a 90-64 victory over […]
It’s time to get familiar with the name Dominik Olejniczak. Olejniczak, Ole Miss men’s basketball’s 7-foot center from Torun, Poland, is poised to make a size 15 leap in his second year in Oxford after transferring from Drake University in 2016. “He’s played really well,” first-year head coach Kermit Davis said. “In our two scrimmages […]
Filling the wooden pews that line the sanctuary of Second Baptist Church on Jackson Ave., a sea of black and white faces sat as one, bound together in remembrance of Elwood Higginbottom. Efforts to memorialize the 1935 lynching of Higginbottom were cemented during a ceremony at the church on Saturday afternoon. A large marker details […]
Before the dust even began to settle around Ed Meek’s offensive Facebook post, the university had taken a public stance and the student body had made its opinion clear. Within a few hours of Meek’s post, Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter condemned its racial tone and a student’s petition had garnered more than 600 signatures calling to […]
With a record of 3-1 (0-1 SEC), the Ole Miss football team is stuck at a perplexing juncture in its 2018 campaign. After four games, the Rebels have played eight good quarters of football and eight that represent some of the lowest depths the football program has reached since the Ed Orgeron era. Yet they’re […]
Chauncey Mullins and Jessica Tran were named Mr. and Miss Ole Miss on Thursday night, with Mullins receiving 52.5 percent of the vote and Tran receiving 59.4 percent of the vote. Newly minted Miss Ole Miss Tran, a senior biochemistry major from Hattiesburg and president of UM Active Minds, was nearly speechless after her win. […]
Heading into last Saturday’s contest with Alabama, the Ole Miss football team boasted the No. 8 offense in the country and the No. 124 defense. Coming off a victory over FCS school Southern Illinois, in which the Rebels scored 76 but allowed 41, the hottest seat in Oxford was occupied by defensive coordinator Wesley McGriff […]
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