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On Monday, student media will host the Associated Student Body debate for the first time. The debate will be at 6 p.m. at the Overby Center.

With the NCAA Tournament now flooding TVs across the country, find out what to expect in the No. 8 seed Rebels’ first-round game against the No. 9 seed Sooners.

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Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks announced that he supports the movement to relocate the monument, to mixed reactions from the university community.

Interim Chancellor Larry Sparks said the Confederate monument that currently stands in the heart of the Ole Miss campus should be relocated “to a more suitable location” in a statement sent to students and faculty on Thursday.

“We will work diligently toward this goal by respecting and abiding by state rules, regulations and policies that govern the process of relocation, and by continuing to provide updates to the university community as the process moves forward,” the statement read.

“This is an important decision for our university. The monument, its meaning and its location have been a point of discussion and debate for many years.”

Sparks will now have to get permission from the Mississippi Institutions for Higher Learning and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to relocate the statue.

The IHL Board of Trustees must approve of the recommendation to relocate the statue, and their next meeting is scheduled for April. However, the chancel-

lor did not say in his statement when he will recommend the action to IHL. Sparks said the university has submitted a “notice of intent” to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to gain approval to relocate the statue.

In a previous statement to The Daily Mississippian, Michael Morris, the public information officer for the department of archives and history, said the Circle at the university was designated as a state landmark in 2011, which, under the state’s Antiquities Law, means the university must obtain a permit from the department before altering a landmark.

“If the owner of a Mississippi landmark decides to undertake a construction or improvement project that affects the landmark, the Antiquities Law requires the owner to submit a notice of intent and include a detailed description of the proposed project with photographs, plans and/or specifications,” Morris said. “Permits are approved for projects meeting the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation.”

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Whitman Smith, director of admissions at Ole Miss, is retiring from the university.

Smith, whose position has already been placed on the university’s career website, has been with the university for nearly three decades. Smith started in the admissions office in 1990, beginning as a regional admissions counselor and serving as director of admissions since July 2013.

“I think it’s probably time for some new leadership,” Smith said. “There were other factors too, but I just felt like it was time to retire.”

Smith’s retirement comes after the university has experienced an overall decrease in enrollment

for two consecutive years, which followed a national trend in decreased college enrollment.

There were 23,780 students enrolled at the university during fall 2017, compared to 23,258 in fall 2018 — a decrease of 2.2 percent, or 522 students. The decline of 1.9 percent from fall 2016 to fall 2017 was the first decline in University of Mississippi enrollment in more than 20 years.

Despite the decreased enrollment the past two years, the university reached the highest enrollment of 24,250 students in its history in 2016 under Smith.

Smith said the decline in enrollment wasn’t a factor in his resignation, and the enrollment would more than likely pick back up in a few years.

“The admissions office is a very, very strong office,” Smith

said. “If anything, during the time we’ve lost some students, we’ve done more outreach than we’ve ever done.”

Smith is a fourth generation university employee, whose great-grandfather was the first librarian at the university to hold a degree in the 1920s. He said following that legacy has been “a huge honor.”

“I would be lying if I didn’t say the people were my favorite part of Ole Miss,” Smith said. “To see students I recruited become staff members at the university is special. The people here are what make the university great.”

Smith’s retirement also comes after Jeffrey Vitter resigned as chancellor in January and Melinda Sutton Noss, the university’s dean of students, announced she would be leaving the university at the end of the academic year.

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The Ole Miss men’s basketball team is in Columbia, South Carolina, to battle the Oklahoma Sooners in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Ole Miss, 20-12 (10-8), was awarded with an 8-seed ranking by the Selection Committee on Sunday while Oklahoma, 19-13 (7-11), holds the 9-seed ranking in the South Region.

This is the ninth trip to the Big Dance in school history for the Rebels and the first since 2015.

While Ole Miss has no players with NCAA Tournament experience on the roster, head coach Kermit Davis is going dancing for the sixth time in his coaching career.

“It never gets old, it never SEE STATUE PAGE 3 does. This is the third different team that I’ve been involved with — Idaho, Middle Tennessee and now at Ole Miss — and it just never changes,” Davis said.

Having received a firstround bye, the Rebels were bounced from the SEC Tournament in the quarterfinals last Thursday, falling to Alabama after watching a 14-point halftime lead evaporate in front of their eyes.

Breein Tyree, who was named to the first team AllSEC, and Terence Davis, who earned second team All-SEC honors, are coming off one of their worst performances of the season. The duo, who combined 34 points per game in the regular season, produced just 10 points on 4-27 shooting PHOTO COURTESY: OLE MISS in the loss to Alabama. The COMMUNICATIONS Rebels can’t afford another Ole Miss Director of Admissions Whitman sloppy game from their two ofSmith will be retiring from the university after nearly 30 years following a family SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 3 legacy of service to Ole Miss.

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In the aftermath of the horrific New Zealand shooting, many have flocked to their respective bases calling for gun law reforms.

Such a tragedy as this should spark debate on appropriate policy initiatives to curb gun violence. But, before we blame all our problems on the machine, it’s time we take a look at those who wield them.

Not long ago, the Parkland shooter ended the lives of innocent children and instilled fear in countless communities. Before that came Sandy Hook, the Sutherland Springs church shooting and the Las Vegas shooting. Politicians loudly

and proudly touted their opinions on the matter, and nothing happened to change the situation. The same thing has happened with the New Zealand shooting. Those calling for stricter gun laws may be getting at the wrong issue.

A study conducted in 2001 by Jeffrey Miron of Boston University found that, internationally, the correlation between gun ownership and crime rates is insignificant — if it exists at all. This is true in the U.S. as well. States like Illinois and California have implemented increasingly strict laws against gun ownership, but numbers of gun deaths per capita in those states is significantly higher than in places like Mississippi, where permits are not required in order to own firearms.

When we look further at recent mass gun attacks, it is clear that the perpetrators were deeply disturbed and showed this outwardly and publicly. The Parkland shooter, on multiple occasions, hinted at plans to attack the school, but law

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enforcement did nothing to stop it. The same was true of the Sutherland shooter, whose violent past should have warranted investigation by law enforcement.

Something grave is plaguing our society, and it can’t be solved by taking guns away from responsible citizens. The current form of changing gun laws has been unhelpful in bringing real change to gun violence.

The phrase “common-sense gun laws” is thrown around often by politicians seeking sound bites that appeal to the masses. But what could true common-sense gun laws look like? How could Washington restore hope in communities blown apart by gun violence?

Two real and sensible solutions come to mind.

First, enforce the laws on the books. Criminals can easily obtain guns through illegal transactions. The informal market of gun dealers is dangerously supplying weapons to people who are legally barred from obtaining a gun. Instead of taking away guns from responsible citizens, gun laws

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should encourage sellers to abide by federal laws. Those that don’t should be shut down so they cannot arm killers.

Second, teach gun safety. It is all too easy to fear things we do not know much about.

Communities could combat fear of guns by offering gun safety classes to citizens in order to promote proper self-defense techniques. Gun safety classes have proven successful in reducing gun accidents among hunters and others who use guns recreationally. The same could be true of safety classes for students and citizens.

These reforms could drastically change gun violence in America without limiting the freedom of individuals. It is time the gun debate shifts from unproductive partisanship to attainable solutions for a safer America.

Lauren Moses is a sophomore accounting and political science major from Dallas.

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continued from page 1 after all four campus government groups — the Associated Student Body, the Senate of the Faculty, the Graduate Student Council and the Staff Council — passed resolutions calling for the relocation.

ASB President Elam Miller said he is proud of the chancellor for moving forward with the process of moving the statue out of the Circle.

“I am glad that the administration has respected the shared governance of the university,” Miller said. “I believe (Sparks’s) statement shows the leadership that this university has needed.”

Black Student Union President Jarvis Benson said he sees the administration’s continuation of efforts to remove the Confederate statue from the center of campus as a demonstration of the power of student voices.

“Students have worked for years to get the university to appropriately address its white supremacist past,” Benson said.

“The chancellor’s statement today gives hope for more intentional efforts to do so.”

The authors of the campus government resolutions that led to Sparks’s decision are also responding to the chancellor’s chosen course of action with praise.

“We’re happy that the chancellor decided to do the right thing

and submit the necessary request to get the statue down,” said Tom Porter, co-author of the Graduate Student Council resolution. “You would always like it to be faster.

I understand bureaucracy takes time, and I don’t think IHL is the most progressive body. Still, things have moved pretty quickly on campus.”

Faculty senate chair Brice Noonan said he was impressed with the speed with which the university has addressed the statue this academic year.

“This was a refreshingly timely and clear response to the statements issued by the (university) representative bodies that demonstrates the administration’s commitment to working with and listening to the members of our campus community,” Noonan said.

Staff Council President Gazel Giles said she was pleased to hear that Sparks is in agreement with the campus government organizations and most upper-level administration that the statue needs to be moved.

“It’s important to follow proper procedure when it comes to these matters,” Giles said. “The statement today was a bit of relief for most staff members.”

While the four resolutions specify the Confederate cemetery near the Tad Smith Coliseum as the most appropriate location for the statue, Sparks’s statement did not clarify the location to which the statue will be moved.

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“I know (Terence Davis) and Breein have a bad taste in their mouth from Nashville because they have had such a tremendous year and they have helped us win so many games,” said Kermit Davis on the leading scoring duo in the SEC. “Usually when you get two guards that good, those guys are going to redeem themselves, and I’m sure they will play well in this tournament.”

Oklahoma, led by head coach Lon Kruger, will be making its sixth trip in seven years to the NCAA tournament. Like Kermit Davis, Kruger has had success with multiple teams, and is one of only two coaches (including Tubby Smith) who has lead five different schools to the Big Dance.

Kruger’s postseason successes are highlighted by two Final Four appearances, the most recent coming with Oklahoma during the 2015-16 campaign. The Sooners are led by two All-Big 12 third teamers in Christian James and Kristian Doolittle.

James, a senior, paces the Sooners, averaging 14.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. Doolittle, who was also named the Most Improved Player in the Big 12, enters the contest averaging 11.2 points with a team-leading 7 rebounds per game. Brady

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The Rebels are back in the NCAA tournament for the first time in four years and will play Oklahoma today.

Manek rounds out the Sooners’ double-figure scorers putting up 12 points per game to go along with 6.1 rebounds.

Outside of that trio, Oklahoma has only one other player averaging three rebounds or more, which is a cause for concern heading into the matchup with Ole Miss. Coming in ranked 175th in the nation in rebounding, the Sooners will be pressed to crash the boards against the Rebels who check in at 107th in rebounding in the NCAA. Ole Miss was 2-2 in matchups against common opponents with Oklahoma. While both teams shared wins over Vanderbilt, the Rebels’ other win came against Baylor while they fell in close contests to both, Iowa State and Florida. The Sooners went 2-4 in such matchups with a win over Florida in November, but were swept by Baylor and Iowa State in Big 12 play, including a

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This first-round bout takes place in Colonial Life Arena, the home of the South Carolina Gamecocks. The Rebels may enter the game with a slight edge, having last played there just a month ago.

“One of our staff members said we might end up in South Carolina and I just said, ‘Okay, I’m good friends with those rims,’” said Terence Davis, who scored 18 points in a February loss on the road against the Gamecocks.

As of Friday morning, Ole Miss is just a 1-point favorite over Oklahoma according to ESPN. In the 136 times that 8-seeds and 9-seeds have collided in the NCAA Tournament, each seed has won 68 times.

Tipoff is at 11:40 a.m on Friday and is will be aired on TruTV with Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery and Grant Hill on the call.

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1,500 students to volunteer in state’s largest day of service MASON SCIONEAUX

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The Big Event returns on Saturday, and the focus this year is unifying the Ole Miss and Oxford communities.

“We want [the Big Event] to be something where it’s not just simply one day where students go out for this one morning for a couple hours and serve this one house or this one church or whatever and go about their lives,” senior integrated marketing communications student and co-director Zach Digregorio said. “We want it to be something that makes the students value the community more and the community value the students more.”

The Big Event, which began in 2011, occurs one day every spring, but it is organized throughout the year by six executive committees, 32 executive committee members, 100 subcommittee members, and 220 project leaders.

“Planning the Big Event is no small task,” senior mathematics major and codirector Abby Garrett said. “It takes a village to make this day happen.”

Two weeks after each Big Event, the co-directors choose their successors, and by the end of the spring semester a new 30-member executive

board is selected.

This year, approximately 1,500 volunteers will take on about 150 projects throughout Lafayette County.

“One thing we did differently (this year) is we wanted to appear as more than just this one day of service, so we decided to choose one project to specifically fundraise for and do a big project for,” Digregorio said.

That one project benefits the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library. The Big Event raised $12,000 for new bookshelves, and volunteers from the Big Event will install the bookshelves on Saturday.

The 1,500 volunteers is a slight decline from last year. Digregorio said that this is the result of a new recruitment process that aims for more volunteers who sign up to actually show up, whereas the turnout in previous years has been well below the number of students who register for the event.

“Last year on on Business Row, it was a lot more of just grabbing people and asking them to sign up, but this year is more informative and if you sign up, that’s great,” he said.

“We want it to be more like, if you’re not going to show up, don’t sign up, because it kind of messes up our process,

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The Big Event, which is this Saturday, is Mississippi’s largest annual day of service. About 1,500 volunteers have registered to participate in the local event. since we plan ahead for this number.”

This year, the Big Event emphasizes the goal of connecting the citizens of the county with the students at the university.

“A lot of time in college, it is easy to stay in the college bubble, but the Big Event reminds students to thank this incredible community

for hosting us year round,” Garrett said.

Organizers do not seek out projects, but rather are given them through requests.

Isaac Jenkins, a senior staff member with Ole Miss Cru, a religious organization, received help through the Big Event last year with an erosion problem in his yard.

“The Big Event helped me

out a lot last year, and I think it’s great for these students to give back to the community,” he said. “I love to see them show how Ole Miss and Oxford are one.”

Although registration has closed, the Big Event will accept walk-ups on Saturday morning.

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UM Museum celebrates ‘sense of place’ with new exhibit MILLICENT FRENCH

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The University Museum will begin to display artist and curator William Dunlap’s exhibition “Meditations on the Origins of Agriculture in America” with a reception on Monday at 4 p.m., featuring works that celebrate springtime as part of a two-day symposium that will include landscapes and written proses from 39 writers and artists, including Dunlap.

The debut will be held at the museum and other venues, including Nutt Auditorium and the Ford Center.

For the symposium, Lisa Howorth, owner and co-founder of Square Books, Off-Square Books and Square Books, Jr. will serve as a moderator on Monday at noon.

Other moderators and presenters include art historian J. Richard Gruber, who will be giving the keynote address, Betsy Bradley of the Mississippi Museum of Art, author Ralph Eubanks, Julian Rankin of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs and poet Natasha Trethewey from Northwestern University.

Eubanks said that Dunlap’s work beautifully represents the South.

“In the American South, the idea of place is enshrined in both literature and art,” Eubanks said.

“William Dunlap’s work speaks to that special alchemy of the visual

and the verbal that exists in the South.”

Eubanks also commented on the significance of William Dunlap’s featured piece in regards to its connection to the other artists.

“His painting ‘Meditations of the Origins of Agriculture in America’ makes an important statement about the historical narrative of the South,” Eubanks said. “It reveals how complex and layered that narrative is, particularly when many would like to reduce it to a single historical thread.”

Kate Wallace, the University Museum’s membership, events and communications coordinator, said this will be the first time the piece will be displayed since its acquisition. The museum’s preparator Kyle Hoehn said those involved are working hard and are busily preparing for the event; he expects an excellent turnout.

A word from Trethewey will follow at 6 p.m. in Nutt Auditorium. The public are welcome to attend at no cost, but the University Museum’s website encourages registering for the event ahead of time.

The symposium will continue on Tuesday starting at 8:30 a.m.

Journalism professor Curtis Wilkie, who will be recognized

at the symposium, explained the connection between literature and landscape.

“Eudora Welty was known for her ability to develop ‘a sense of place’ in her fiction,” Wilkie said. “Like a landscape in art, it’s important for writers to set a scene or create an atmosphere with good, strong words — our

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equivalent of brushstrokes.”

In the curator’s statement, Wilkie added that creativity — whether through writing or art — establishes a “sense of place” for those who consume it.

“To see is to know. Ours is a nonverbal form of communication that can prove difficult to some,” he said. “The two seem at times far apart, but in reality are not.”

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The Ole Miss Women’s Tennis team is proving to be a force in the SEC. The Rebels were 3-3 going into SEC play, beating Alcorn State twice and Tulane once, but lost tough matches to top teams, including No. 9 Michigan and No. 21 UCF. The Rebels are gaining momentum and now sit at 6-5 overall and 3-2 in the SEC. After dropping their first two SEC matches to Florida and South Carolina, the Rebels are now on a roll. They won their last three SEC matches by beating Mississippi State, Alabama and Auburn.

The key to their success has been strong performances from the entire team. The Rebels have been able to earn points in different ways and have been strong in singles matches, even

when they haven’t won the doubles point.

First-set wins are also proving to be important to the Rebels. In their match against Mississippi State, every singles player won her first set against the Bulldogs, resulting in four match wins. Ole Miss won five first sets against Auburn to help secure the win.

Senior Tea Jandric has been a big part of the team’s success.

Jandric has won six consecutive matches, contributing to the Rebel’s win streak. She has moved between the No. 1 and No. 2 singles spot this season and has won all of her matches handily. Her most notable win was over Mississippi State’s Magda Adalogou, the No. 113-ranked player in the country.

Sabina Machalova, the Rebels’ No. 1 singles player, had notable wins over Mississippi State’s Emma Antonaki, the No. 81-ranked player in the country,

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Tereza Janatova also won her last three SEC matches to contribute to the Rebel’s win streak. The Rebels can count on Janatova’s consistent performance in her singles position this year.

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THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 22 MARCH 2019 | PAGE 7

BASEBALL

Ole Miss hoping to maintain momentum against Missouri

JOHN MACON GILLESPIE

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Following a series win over Alabama and two midweek annihilations of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Ole Miss baseball has hit the road and will take on the Missouri Tigers this weekend on the diamond.

The Rebel bats have come alive in their three most recent contests as head coach Mike Bianco has shuffled the batting order to give his lineup life after it fell stagnant in recent weeks.

In its three games since Sunday, Ole Miss has racked up 38 hits, outscoring opponents by acombined 49-4.

The shift in the lineup card for Ole Miss has coincided with a breakout from shortstop Grae Kessinger at the plate. Kessinger, who had been batting leadoff for Bianco, has found himself in the No. 2 hole in the batting order S in recent games and has gone 7-11 at the plate since Sunday, good enough to raise his season batting average to .275.

If Kessinger can join the likes of relatively consistent Rebel hitters like Ryan Olenek and Thomas Dillard, he could be a big piece in ensuring this offense stays on track.

The Rebels are traveling to Columbia with a slightly altered starting pitching rotation as well.

With Zack Phillips, who had been the Rebels’ Saturday starter, pitching Wednesday’s game against Pine Bluff, Mike Bianco

has moved left-hander Doug Nikhazy to the Saturday role wedged between Will Ethridge and Gunnar Hoglund.

Save for a couple of bad innings against nationally-ranked East Carolina and Louisville, Nikhazy has been effective both in starting and relief roles for the Rebels this season, posting a 4.15 ERA and striking out 20 batters to this point. Nikhazy could bring a share of consistency to Saturdays for Ole Miss as Phillips had struggled to find a rhythm thus far on the weekends.

The other two weekend starting arms for Ole Miss, Ethridge and Hoglund, have also found rhythms of late. Ethridge has been a constant for the Rebel rotation since the beginning of theseason, and after some early-year struggles, Hoglund is appearing to turn a corner.

In last Sunday’s game against Alabama, Hoglund pitched five innings of one-run ball that helped bring his ERA down to 3.26 on the year. After being drafted in the first round by the Pittsburgh Pirates last summer, Hoglund was expected to be an important part of the Rebels’ pitching staff and may be finally realizing that potential as SEC play wears on.

Missouri comes limping into its weekend series with the Rebels after being swept by Arkansas last weekend in Fayetteville.

Although the Tigers lost these three games by a combined four runs, being swept still marks

Ole Miss Baseball will travel this weekend for the series against the Missouri Tigers. a less-than-ideal beginning to conference play for a team already banned from a postseason appearance due to NCAA

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sanctions. Unlike the Rebels, Missouri has a weekend rotation built entirely of left-handers in Jacob Cantleberry, TJ Sikkema and Tyler Laplante.

Ole Miss’s lineup will be put to the test against these three arms as the Rebels have noticeably struggled against left-handed pitching these season, and none

of these pitchers have an ERA above 3.00. The Tigers also have multiple men batting over .300 on the year including Mark Vierling who has played in every game thus far.

Tonight’s first pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m., and Saturday’s and Sunday’s games will start at 7 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Five things to expect: No. 8 Ole Miss vs. No. 9 Oklahoma JARED REDDING

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The Ole Miss Rebels are back in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in four years. This time, they have the SEC Coach of the Year and their highest seed in the Big Dance since the No. 3-seeded 2001 squad.

Despite all this, the Rebels come into the first round with minimal momentum.

Ole Miss has lost four of its last five contests in heartbreaking fashion, including the last outing against Alabama in the second round of the SEC Tournament. The Rebels blew a 14-point halftime lead in that game and saw their dynamic guard tandem of Terence Davis and Breein Tyree struggle mightily. Now, they start with a clean slate as they prepare for the 9-seed Oklahoma Sooners out of a deep Big 12 conference.

The Sooners, like Ole Miss, are in a slump, but theirs is bigger. Oklahoma has lost eight of its last 12 games, including a first-round loss in the Big 12 Tournament. A lot of success has come from their four- and five-spots, Brady Manek and Kristian Doolittle. Senior guard Christian James has been a big success, leading the team

with 14.4 points per game. He is looking for one more deep tournament run after going all the way to the Final Four as a freshman.

Here are five things to expect from Friday’s first-round matchup: 1) Ole Miss can attack the basket, and get to the charity stripe.

Last week, Ole Miss only went to the free-throw line twice. The team has frustrated opponents all year long by getting to the free-throw line and, more importantly, by capitalizing on that opportunity. Ole Miss is tied for third in the country in free-throw percentage at 78 percent. This includes Ole Miss players like Bruce Stevens and Dominik Olejniczak, not just the guards. Stevens has been solid the past couple of games and has a great opportunity for another good performance.

2) Shuler should be fed often.

What Terence Davis and Breein Tyree can do on a frequent basis for the Rebels is no secret. Together, they have carried a big workload in order for Ole Miss to get to this point, but they were not able to get anything going in their last outing. However, they had a bright

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Ole Miss guard Devontae Shuler makes a layup during the game against Mississippi State earlier this season. spot in that game and in their regular season finale against Missouri who can help them out here: Devontae Shuler. He has stepped up greatly when his team needed it most. His ball movement and shiftiness create for a matchup nightmare. Look for Kermit Davis to have him

more involved in the offense.

3) Oklahoma will do damage in the paint offensively.

This is Oklahoma’s bread and butter. Manek and Doolittle both average double figures in point totals, and this is the main reason. There may not be a reason for them to back

down from that now, especially considering Ole Miss’s struggles defending near the basket. This especially hurt Ole Miss against Tennessee and Kentucky and in the SEC Tournament.

4) Oklahoma will key heavily on Ole Miss guards.

On the flip side, the Rebels thrive on outstanding guard play. They like to start moving the ball at the top of the key and to get defenders to blow assignments, as a result of being all clumped up together, before smashing them with easy baskets. They also have a knack for traps and for forcing bad passes. Oklahoma will likely try to beat Ole Miss at its own game. In order to halt the offensive flow of the Rebels, Oklahoma will have to go to the source. Look for Oklahoma to be aggressive defensively early in the possession to disrupt the Rebels’ plan before it can even begin.

5) Ole Miss gets Oklahoma in foul trouble early.

As good as Oklahoma has it with its forwards, the team lacks depth in that area. That is perhaps one of the biggest advantages Ole Miss has in this game.

Tipoff is set for 11:40 a.m. on TruTV.

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