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DEAN OF STUDENTS TO DEPART FROM OLE MISS
A SILENT PROTEST DEMANDS POWERFUL SIGNS
Melinda Sutton Noss is leaving the University of Mississippi at the end of the semester to take an administrative job at Southern Methodist University.
Students participating in today’s Black History Month March gathered last night to make posters. Some quoted leaders, others demanded action, all had lots to say.
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“It’s important that we indicate very clearly (that) we have not invited these groups to our campus. These are outside groups, and they do not align with our institutional values. They are not who we are.” Brandi Hephner LaBanc Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs & Dean of Students
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Ole Miss administrators held a public forum yesterday to allow students a chance to voice their concerns about protests and counterprotests occurring this week. Some students feel the administration has not taken proper steps to ensure students’ safety. Neither Chancellor Sparks nor Provost Wilkin was in attendance.
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WEAPONS POLICY
It is a rather unfortunate, and frankly damning, coincidence HADLEY HITSON
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Protesters and other campus visitors with enhanced concealed carry permits will be allowed to bring firearms onto the Ole Miss campus this weekend after the university brought its weapons policy into compliance with the state’s law on gun permits. At yesterday’s forum regarding this weekend’s Confederate protest, university officials fielded questions from students about this change to school policy. Before Feb. 15, no weapons of any type were allowed on campus unless they were in the possession of a University Police Department officer or other law enforcement official. Last Friday, the university put a new weapons policy into effect allowing campus visitors with enhanced concealed carry per-
mits to bring concealed firearms on to campus. “Mississippi has very liberal gun legislation,” said Erica McKinley, the university’s chief legal officer and general counsel. “It is a rather unfortunate, and frankly damning, coincidence that when we realized and got aligned on that policy, we issued it when we did.” McKinley said university policy was issued in order to comply with state laws and a recent amendment made to the state college board’s weapon policy. “Under no circumstances did we modify our gun policy to allow any person to bring a gun under circumstances that the law would otherwise maintain is illegal,” McKinley said. Confederate 901 — one of the groups protesting the removal of Confederate symbols on campus — insists they do not plan on inciting violence or bringing weapons of any kind
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University updates gun policy eight days before Confederate groups march on campus
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University Police Department Chief Ray Hawkins answers questions from members of the Ole Miss community about upcoming protests and student safety. this weekend. “We’re not coming here to cause any trouble for the University of Mississippi,” a member of Confederate 901 said in a video posted to the group’s Facebook page. There is an open carry law in the state, so both Confederate and anti-Confederate protesters will legally be allowed to carry weapons on the Square and in the city until they reach the university boundary, according to UPD Chief Ray Hawkins. With a concealed carry permit, citizens are allowed to carry firearms in Oxford, but not on campus. “On Saturday, what we’re going to do is we’ve set up two areas that will be secure because you will be checked going into those areas, whether it’s the protest area or the counterprotest area,” Hawkins said. Students and employees of the university cannot have
weapons on campus, and visitors on campus who have enhanced concealed carry permits may not enter any university building with a firearm in their possession. “All of these groups have expressed a want for a peaceful protest, and we’re hoping that is what ensues,” Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Brandi Hephner LaBanc said. “We encourage folks to just stay away and not engage in the area.” The student-led counterprotest against Confederate symbols will now be held on Saturday at the Jackson Avenue Center instead of the original location in the Circle, Hephner LaBanc said at the forum. Hephner LaBanc acknowledged critiques of the university’s response to the Confederate protesters. Many people were angered by the mild language in university statements and the university’s apparent refusal to
“position itself in opposition to these outside groups.” She said administration made its decisions in attempt to curtail the energy around the protests. “It’s important that we indicate very clearly (that) we have not invited these groups to our campus,” LaBanc said. “These are outside groups, and they do not align with our institutional values. They are not who we are.” Two of the most prominent administrative voices were missing from the Campus Conversation: Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks and Provost Noel Wilkin. “A rather significant portion of our body is not here, and that’s our chancellor and our provost,” McKinley said. “Please do not assume by virtue of (the chancellor’s) absence that he isn’t tapped into this.”
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Last Thursday, Amazon announced it was abandoning plans to build a second headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, citing opposition and hostility from local officials. The new headquarters was expected to bring up to 40,000 highpaying jobs to the area and generate potentially billions of dollars in annual tax revenue. Upon its initial announcement, the plan was met with mixed feelings from New Yorkers. Public support for the project polled at 70 percent, according to Amazon’s blog; although, a survey by Quinnipiac University reported that 57 percent of New Yorkers approved of the plans and 46 percent approved of the tax breaks Amazon would receive. Officials on both sides of the aisle praised
the headquarters’ potential to attract investment and commerce to the local community. However, a vocal minority of local politicians vehemently opposed the deal, and the city’s promised $2.8 billion in tax subsidies to Amazon over the next decade, effectively killing the project and thousands of jobs along with it. This is the unfortunate yet unsurprising accumulation of idealistic, anti-business, progressive politics that has risen to prominence in the last several years. The new headquarters would have directly created between 25,000 and 40,000 jobs, attracted additional investment in the forms of new housing and businesses and generated up to $30 billion in tax revenue. The headquarters would have benefited all parties in the Queens community — workers, businesses and the city. Unfortunately, opponents of the project resorted to using misleading rhetoric in an attempt to demonize big-business and depict Amazon as a large, greedy corporation with the sole purpose of exploiting workers; all in an effort to appeal to their progressive base.
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It is a travesty that a small number of young, opportunistic officials such as City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Sen. Michael Gianaris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were willing to sacrifice thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in new investment in exchange for cheap political capital. Ocasio-Cortez, perhaps the most prominent opponent of the project, claimed that Amazon factories were essentially “sweatshops” and that the $2.8 billion in tax subsidies should instead be used for hiring teachers and fixing subways. Surely we don’t need to explain to a member of Congress that a tax subsidy doesn’t actually come from taxpayers and that the money doesn’t actually “exist” yet. But alas, here we are. Cortez’s criticism shows her ignorance of taxation and how money works. It’s tempting to fixate on and laugh at Cortez’s understanding of fiscal policy, but Cortez and her brand of progressivism are merely symptoms of a much bigger problem: a growing anti-business, anti-free market, anticapitalist sentiment in America. Recently, there have been calls to implement
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a 70-percent tax bracket, abolish private health insurance and even provide “economic security to all those who are unable or unwilling to work.” These asinine ideas completely undermine the very foundations of American life. America’s economic success is the result of allowing individuals and businesses to make money and flourish. Profit incentivizes innovation, hard work and personal responsibility. These qualities subsequently lead to better lives for everyone — more effective medical technology, healthier food and cheaper energy. When you take away those incentives, you also take away the very means that have made America the most prosperous country in the history of mankind. Since 1967, real annual income for the middle class in the United States has risen 35.2 percent and real GDP has increased from $4.5 to $18.1 trillion. The demonization of business and free markets must stop. Wright Ricketts is a senior banking and finance and managerial finance double major from Memphis.
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CULTURE
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THE ART ISSUE Assistant Arts & Culture editor Eliza Noe and I planned to focus this week’s “& More” on art a while ago. But, with the rest of campus swirling about the protests coming this weekend, we wondered how we could relate our world of words and pictures to these urgent events. That’s why our cover story is about a handful of the students who gathered last night to create posters for today’s Black History Month March. Along with this, we have Bella St. Amant’s review of a new Honors College art exhibit and Jeanne Torp’s article on the new Southside Gallery show, a collection of 13 artists’s depictions of flowers. Liam Nieman Arts & Culture Editor
‘OUR SIGNS SPEAK FOR US’ When a protest is silent, posters have to say it all
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s DeArrius Rhymes danced around to Michael Jackson’s 1992 single “Remember the Time” playing over the Union Ballroom speakers, his friend Cameron Bailey made a sign. “TAKE IT DOWN,” the poster read, the words hugging a clenched fist raised in the air. Rhymes, a sophomore chemistry major, and Bailey, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, had worked together to trace the words and image in pencil. But now, Rhymes was taking a break, checking out other posters, while Bailey drew with careful strokes, half-inches at a time. He wouldn’t let the marker slide. The poster’s words were written in black, colored in with red. The fist was traced in green. Rhymes said the red was meant to symbolize bloodshed and draw attention, while the green symbolized taking action. Their sign, along with dozens of others, were being prepared for Thursday’s Black History Month March to protest Confederate symbols on campus. The march, which was planned last semester, took on a new significance because of the pro-Confederate “Mississippi Stands Rally” happening Saturday. Jarrius Adams, a senior public policy leadership major and president of the University of Mississippi Gospel Choir, led the event Wednesday night. Since the march would be a silent one — from Lamar Hall to the
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Cameron Bailey (left) and DeArrius Rhymes (right) design a sign on Wednesday for use in the Black History Month March reading “Take It Down.” Confederate statue — the posters would have to speak for themselves. “If everyone is speaking, no one can hear the other person and there is chaos, but through this silent protest everyone’s voice can be physically ‘heard’ through visual comprehension,” Rhymes said. “Hopefully our posters can be a great primary impact in a greater movement.”
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continued from page 3 Adams brought 50 pieces of poster board and several packs of markers paid for by alumni aware of the march’s potential impact. Shortly before 6:30 p.m., senior international studies major and UM College Democrats president John Chappell entered the room with two rolls of HUSKY plastic sheeting that he’d bought at Walmart. He and Adams spread it out so people could make posters without ruining the room’s carpet. “It’s perfect,” Adams said. As they rolled the sheeting out, more and more students filled the expansive ballroom. Once the center row of seats was full, Adams spoke on the logistics of the Black History Month March. Although Adams urged students to avoid campus on Saturday, he said students need to be active in demanding changes like removing the Confederate statue on the Circle. “Put your money where your mouth is,” Adams said. “A lot of people are saying they’re ready for this or ready for that, but I don’t see them here.” Kayla Smith, a sophomore communications sciences and disorders major, quickly got to work creating her poster. In careful handwriting, she wrote a quote attributed to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Our
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Four Ole Miss students design a sign yesterday for the Black History Month March happening today, reading “Love is what love does.”
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Kayla Smith created signs yesterday featuring a quote by Martin Luther King Jr. during an event designing signs to be used in today’s Black History Month March.
lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” “Being silent about issues in the world just continues to let them go on and let bad things happen,” Smith said. “I feel like we should speak up.” While many signs featured iconic quotes or otherwise referred to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, others were more to the point. “Your history is hurting me.” “Take it to the cemetery.” “Ctrl Alt Del the statue.” Victoria Robinson, a senior math major, made a sign that read “We pay $23,372/ We deserve to be accepted.” She said that, by making the problems she sees on campus into an economic issue, her message would be able to reach more people. “Just like everybody else on this campus, we pay the same amount,” Robinson said. “Why can’t we feel comfortable in the environment? Why can’t I feel accepted? Why can’t I feel like I belong?” Robinson said that making signs for a protest is important. “Sometimes actions speak louder than words and we can yell and project our voices, but that doesn’t show people what we really mean,” Robinson said. “Sometimes, when we write our feelings down, we’re able to articulate ourselves … so our signs speak for us when our emotions may be running high.”
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‘Always Already There’ show delights, confounds with mystery
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The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College features the art of Brooke P. Alexander, a visiting assistant professor at Ole Miss, along its walls. The paintings mix the bright and floral patterns of spring with other subdued and dark themes.
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Brooke P. Alexander’s art installation, “Always Already There,” hangs in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.
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Portraits and still-life paintings line the walls of a spacious room in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, each one presenting a deeper, more intimate look into a moment suspended in time. Curated by Honors College Artist-in-Residence Bruce Levingston, 2018 Ole Miss graduate and current visiting assistant professor Brooke P. Alexander’s exhibition “Always Already There” is now hanging in the Honors College’s Great Room. “The blurry, the dark, shadowed places hidden and dwelling amongst the certainty steal my attention,” writes Alexander in her personal statement, which hangs alongside her work. “Such spaces can communicate a vast sense of both time and place, that which is both occurring and that which is past.” The subjects of these paintings come in and out of focus to a viewer. Inanimate objects and shadows draw the eyes to search every corner before finally examining the subject of the portrait. There is an uncertainty to the details of background and foreground — leaving the
lives of the subjects a blur. The colors of the paintings are particularly striking. The muted, dark tones Alexander chooses prove a stark contrast to the red brick walls of the room. “These paintings are focused on ambiguous spaces,” Alexander said in an interview. “They contain muted colors and chromatic grays that reflect those ambiguous spaces. I draw a lot of inspiration from the painter Edwin Dickinson who uses muted, subdued colors.” Alexander’s use of subdued colors juxtaposes with the gentle emergence of softer, brighter colors and motifs of flowers — often in a state of decay. The namesake piece of the exhibit, “Always Already There,” presents a black silhouette of roses behind the panes of glass of a window. Other pieces, like “Patterned Wallpaper” and “Blue,” include vibrant bouquets of flowers but give way to Wthe true focal point of each of Alexander’s portraits: the subjects, the people themselves. The subjects of these portraits are infused with mystery. Ambivalent expressions push viewers to look closer and stare longer and to ponder what goes on in
the subjects’ minds. “This exhibition is a grouping of paintings that concern the connection between interior spaces and the people in them,” Alexander said. “They are reflections and explorations of the figures’ minds.” However, the pieces included in “Always Already There” contain much more than the physical features of people. They include details of the inanimate objects that surround our private spaces — shelves, littered floors, kitchen tables, a recently blown-out candle, window panes. TheWse elements heighten the mystery and privacy each subject maintains. “The paintings that compose this show communicate a space that is not readily understood. They are places that embody a simultaneous presence and absence, an impression,” Alexander said. Viewers will be delighted and confounded by the menagerie of details present in Alexander’s works. These paintings are not easily understood, but there is a strain of something familiar and a spark to keep examining, to better understand the private worlds the subjects live in.
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Despite cold weather, Southside exhibit looks toward spring JEANNE TORP
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Southside Gallery on the Square is hosting its February Floral Exhibit, which runs until Saturday. Although this showing features 13 artists’ takes on flowers, anyone who’s been in Oxford since the start of the spring semester can attest that the exhibit is quite a contrast to the persistent cold weather. “Floral works are … usually pretty bright,” said Wil Cook, director of Southside Gallery. “I thought a colorful show during the winter might appeal to our audience, considering it can be a pretty grey time, and it has been lately.” All of this exhibit’s artists have shown pieces at Southside before. Many are natives of Mississippi or Ole Miss alumni, and all are from the South.
“For this particular show, I selected representational artists who I knew had painted floral paintings in the past and a couple of abstract painters who have exhibited work inspired by flowers,” Cook said. Among these artists is sculptor Rod Moorhead, an Oxonian who started displaying his artwork at Southside in 1993. Moorhead might be familiar to Ole Miss students as the hands behind the James Meredith statue on the university’s campus. Moorhead usually focuses on human subjects. He said he hasn’t sculpted a flower in a while but was able to combine his expertise with this month’s focus. “My piece (for the February exhibit) is a female leg, which serves as a vase, holding a copper rose. The rose is 3-D printed and electrotyped,” Moorhead said. While the artists on display
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for the exhibit did not directly collaborate on any pieces, Moorhead said that he bounced ideas off of and exchanged advice with his wife, Younok Jung, who also has a piece in the exhibit. Jung, a Korean native who has lived in Mississippi for the past 20 years, contributed a painting of a cat and peony to the show. Jerrod Partridge, who was part of an exhibit with Jonathan Kent Adams last year, provided a series of drawings done with a dip pen and walnut ink. In keeping with his previous work, Partridge’s drawings related to everyday life. “My work is completely inspired or derived from observations of day-to-day life,” Partridge said. “This has the potential to seem monotonous and boring, but in reality, new and interesting things happen around us on a daily basis.” Partridge credited his wife, a floral designer named Jessie, as an inspiration for these particular works and said a piece of art is “much more interesting and meaningful to me when she is a part of it.” Moorhead, Jung and Partridge’s works represent just a small part of the exhibit’s themes and mediums, and the other contributing artists include Jonathan Kent Adams, Jere Allen, Brooke P. Alexander, Carl Blackledge, Charlie Buckley, Coulter Fussell, Ansley Givhan, Philip R. Jackson, Spence Townsend and Carlyle Wolfe. Cook said this variety is typical of most Southside shows. “Since we are one of only two galleries in Oxford, we don’t
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BASEBALL
Rebels dominate Red Wolves after early deficit
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Although the night started disastrously for Ole Miss, the Rebels still found a way to escape Swayze with a win on Wednesday night with a final score of 15-3. It certainly wasn’t the career debut freshman Gunnar Hoglund was hoping for. He allowed four hits and three earned runs in 2.0 innings on the mound, with two of those runs coming in his first inning. Hoglund did seem to compose himself somewhat during his outing, striking out three straight batters to end the first inning. “I was a little anxious to start the game,” Hoglund said. “I think, the first couple of batters, I let nerves get to me a little bit. I kind of settled down after that.” Despite the early two-run deficit, Ole Miss responded in a big way. Moments after Hoglund retired three straight batters, Tyler Keenan gave the Rebels their first lead of the night with a 3-run bomb to right field. His night ended with a stat line of 3-5 at the plate, five RBIs and a homer. Ole Miss wasn’t done scoring yet. Following Keenan’s home run, Ole Miss put an extra two insurance runs on the board for
good measure. Ole Miss’s 19 hits on the night was the most in a game since May 13, 2016. “Tonight, we needed some offense after Saturday when we fell behind,” Ole Miss head coach Bianco said. “It was nice to bounce back in the first.” Houston Roth made his first appearance of the season after dealing with a shoulder injury over the weekend. Like Hoglund, Roth pitched 2.0 innings, but he had a much cleaner outing, striking out four while only giving PHOTO: CHRISTIAN JOHNSON up one hit. Ole Miss infielder Tyler Keenan watches the ball after hitting a double during practice “I felt good tonight,” Roth said. on Feb. 9. “I didn’t feel the pain in my shoul- tively giving up five hits and eight proud of the way we played.” der. It was a little stiff, I guess, but strikeouts with no earned runs. The Rebels exploded in the I felt good. I felt normal and was “We don’t do it much, but tofourth, adding five more runs to excited about how it went.” day was a day where we needed to their total. They followed that Doug Nikhazy, Connor Green, pitch a lot of people,” Bianco said. up with another high-scoring Jordan Fowler and Tyler Myers “From the third inning on, we inning in the fifth that provided each made appearances, pitching were really good on the mound, Ole Miss with a 14-3 lead highthe final five innings and collecreally clean in the field and I’m lighted by a three-run dinger
courtesy of Thomas Dillard, his second of the year. Dillard has been on a hot streak to start the year, batting a ridiculous .833 coming into Wednesday’s game. He finished the night 2-4, three RBI and a home run. “We knew (Dillard) could do this,” Bianco said. “Just a great start (of the season) for him.” Overall, it was a productive day for Ole Miss, both offensively and defensively. All but one of the nine starters in the lineup registered a hit, with five of them racking up three hits each. “We’re doing how people thought we would,” Dillard said. “There’s just simple things we need to do better. We’re always going to be able to hit the ball far, but we need to go out there and execute the little things, and that’s what’s going to make our offense a lot better.”
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THE ONE-THREE-ONE BREAKDOWN
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Welcome to the 1-3-1, my weekly college basketball column. 1-3-1 is a hat tip to Kermit Davis’s defensive scheme, but will also serve as the natural breakdown of how I’ll split up sections. Each week, I’ll deliver one big idea regarding the college basketball landscape, three notes on Ole Miss hoops and one Ole Miss thing to look ahead to. GRIFFIN NEAL
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One national CBB thing If you predicted LSU basketball would be ranked 13th in the country with a chance on Saturday to take over the top spot in the SEC, you either legitimately bleed purple and gold, or you’re a liar. Through 26 games, the fighting Tigers are 21-5 and 11-2 in SEC play. Most analysts projected LSU to make the NCAA tournament before the season started. After all, they did pull in the No. 4 recruiting class in the country and are led by a quartet of talented freshman who make up the lion’s share of offensive production. LSU shoots only 32 percent from three as a team and gives up the second most points per game in the Southeastern Conference. The Tigers have willed their way to a top-15 national ranking with elite athleticism and length. They lead the SEC in scoring, offensive rebounding, steals and free throws made and
attempted: all hustle statistics. With a potentially program-altering matchup at home versus Tennessee on Saturday, LSU has the opportunity to catapult itself from the fringes of stardom into the national spotlight. Three Ole Miss things 1) Rebounding. Rebounding. Rebounding. It’s Ole Miss’s greatest weakness, and makes Achilles’s heel seem like a non-issue. They’ve been out-rebounded by opponents in five of their last six matchups and are a -33 on the glass in those six games. They’re a -21 on the offensive glass over their last six and have lost the offensive rebounding battle in 10 of 13 SEC games. Missed defensive rebounds lead to second-chance points, which lead to momentum swings, which lead to losses, which lead to first-round exits in the SEC tournament and NIT berths. Moral of the story: Against quality competition, Ole Miss must corral loose shots to win. 2) Tuesday night’s loss against South Carolina most likely cemented the top-4 seeds
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Ole Miss guard Terence Davis and forward Bruce Stevens block South Carolina forward Chris Silva on Tuesday. The Rebels lost 79-64 against the Gamecocks, ending a fourwin streak. for the SEC tournament, and Ole Miss won’t be one of them. Grabbing a top-4 seed ensures a double-bye and, essentially, a guaranteed NCAA tournament slot as well. It was a game Ole Miss badly needed to win, and they performed poorly. They shot 22 percent from three, 68 percent from the foul line and only turned
South Carolina over 10 times. 3) It’s too late in the season to make a lineup change, but Kermit Davis could benefit from going small when opponents take their bigs off the floor. Neither Olejniczak nor Stevens is a particularly skilled scorer in the low post, and they inhibit the defense’s ability to either switch on pick and
rolls or employ a more athletic wing at the top of the 1-3-1 zone. In the seven minutes that neither Olejniczak nor Stevens was on the floor against South Carolina, Ole Miss was only up three points but forced four turnovers and was even on the offensive glass over that span. One look ahead While the loss to South Carolina does likely knock any chance of Ole Miss attaining a top-4 seed in the SEC tournament and the double-bye that accompanies it, fans shouldn’t fret. The SEC has sent at least five teams to the NCAA tournament in three of the last four years, including last season when the conference sent eight teams. Ole Miss is still ranked inside of the top-40 in the NET rankings, and with top-5 matchups versus Tennessee and Kentucky looming, they still have opportunity to rise. Even losses in those games wouldn’t harm their ranking. Because both schools are in the top-6 in the NET, just bouncing the ball on the same court as them helps boost the Rebels’ resume.
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