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Kevin, Miller win big after ‘unbelievable’ turnout

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LEFT: Dion Kevin and his supporters react after he is announced Associated Student Body president. (Photo by: Marlee Crawford) RIGHT: Elam Miller reacts to being elected the new ASB vice president during the announcement of the runoff election results Thursday in front of the Lyceum. (Photo by: Cameron Brooks)

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“We got it!” “We’re done campaigning!” A thick crowd cheered and consoled itself simultaneously as election commissioner Brent Ferguson announced the re-

sults from the presidential and vice presidential runoff elections in front of the Lyceum Thursday night. Elam Miller won the vice presidential race with 58.04 percent of the vote, and Dion Kevin won the presidential race with 58.08 percent of the vote. “We had almost 4,000 peo-

ple vote, which is absolutely unbelievable,” Ferguson said. Ferguson said the student body voted in almost identical proportions in both of Thursday’s elections. Miller and Kevin won their respective elections by an extremely similar margin, with only an eight-vote difference between the two tal-

lies. Kevin said over the last couple of months he was happy to see so many concrete examples of people unifying behind one common goal. “When your friends decide to drop everything for you and do everything they can because you’re passionate about it, it’s

really sweet,” Kevin said. “I’m ready to take that into office, keep up that excitement about loving each other and serving each other.” Kevin’s sister, Reed Ashton Kevin, led his campaign along with campaign manager Daniel

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Exploiting fat as funny is insulting and inaccurate

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If you are a complete Netflix or Disney fanatic like me, then you obviously know that the 1995 original Disney film “Heavyweights” was recently added to Netflix. If you have no idea what I am talking about, allow

me to explain. Basically, “Heavyweights” is about a bunch of kids who are sent to a fat camp that gets overrun by an obsessively fit, crazy trainer portrayed by Ben Stiller. After they have had enough of the trainer’s fat-shaming and unorthodox methods of weight loss, the campers revolt. At first, it sounded like a pretty entertaining movie to me, but then I started to notice exactly how the movie chooses to portray plussize people. For example, after the campers take over the camp again, they go on a junk food rager all night and wake up with a chocolately, deep-fried hangover. I do not know about any other plus-size person out

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there, but I have never done something like that. That sort of thing never actually happens, and it creates a false stereotype about fat people. Now, we must address the question of why Disney choose to portray fat people in this way. The simplest explanation is that fat is funny to most people (other than actual fat people). Since this movie is a bit outdated and may not be accurate for the current times, I began looking at more recent examples. The first thing that came to mind was the new Mama June transformation that I have been seeing everywhere. Mama June gained public attention on the re-

ality show “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” surrounding her plus-size pageant daughter. Mama June was never society’s idea of beautiful, so production companies believed it would be a great idea to exploit that and gain money off changing her. The same thing goes with “Revenge Bodies with Khloe Kardashian,” “My Big Fat Fabulous Life,” “My 600lb. Life,” “Mike and Molly” and movies like “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” and “Tammy.” These shows and movies are lying to the public. Most fat people are not like that! We do not sit there and eat all day. Honestly, we probably eat the exact same amount – if not less — as everyone

else in a day. Why must they exploit us as a flaw on the face of society on such a large scale? Sure, there are some people who do overeat, but exploiting that and saying all fat people do that is completely ridiculous and unrealistic. The fat stereotypes production companies create are what we must deal with every day of our lives, and they make it so much harder to feel normal. Stop making fat out to be funny when there is truly nothing comical about the bodies in which we live. Mikala Turner is a sophomore social work major from Bruce.

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continued from page 1 College. It was then expanded to Rebel Market because of its success. The university now provides a baseline of $7,500 a semester to support projects, but the fund also receives donations, which are matched 50 percent by the university. Senior biology major and student representative Kelli Coleman said she would like to increase awareness of the Green Fund and engage more students through activities like fundraisers outside the Student Union. “I’d like students to know that it exists and that it’s there to support their ideas and give them an opportunity to leave a lasting impact on campus,” Coleman said. “It’s difficult to engage students in something they’re not familiar with. The main goal is to advertise and get the word out.” The students who work with the Office of Sustainability have composted

more than 77,000 pounds of campus food since the project began in 2013. Senior political science major and student representative Natalie Minton said she believes even the smallest ideas can make an enormous difference and everyone should try to submit an idea. “The Green Fund is important to our campus because it is an organization that is active in turning sustainability ideas into realities every year,” Minton said. “This means that the university is constantly growing and improving, and the Green Fund is a huge part of that.” The Office of Sustainability’s Green Fund has awarded more than $45,000 in funding since it was founded in 2013. The Green Fund was created after student environmentalists held a campus-wide vote on the creation of a fund for sustainability projects in 2011. Of the 1,800 students who voted, 95 percent were in favor. The goal of the organization is to financially support sustainability-re-

lated projects for things like transportation, waste reduction and energy efficiency. Lindsey Abernathy, project manager at the Office of Sustainability and committee chairperson of the Green Fund, said the program has been very beneficial to the university. “It’s really just an avenue to help make campus more sustainable and to allow students, faculty and staff an outlet to actually implement some of these projects they might have in mind,” Abernathy said. “It’s a very neat way to make an impact on campus.” “What we look for in Green Fund projects is, if we fund it, then how can it become a sustainable project that will continue on in the future,” Abernathy said.

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Oxford police have arrested Rashaun Weekly in connection with reports of shots fired on Sunday afternoon at the Gather Oxford apartment complex. According to Maj. Jeff McCutchen, when officers arrived on the scene at approximately 2:55 p.m., they spoke to witnesses who identified Weekly, a 20-year-old student from Charleston, as the shooter. Officers also found 10 fired shell casings in the complex’s parking lot. Weekly, a business administration major and resident of Gather, was taken into custody Sunday evening and charged Monday morning with aggravated assault and possession of a stolen firearm. McCutchen said the department does not yet have all the details but is putting together a sequence of events. He said two men entered the apartment, and after an altercation began, Weekly pulled out the rifle and fired 10 shots at the men and their vehicle. The details of the altercation are not clear, McCutchen said, but traces of marijuana were found in the apartment. “Something took place there that nobody wants to talk about,” McCutchen said. McCutchen said that when they first arrived on the scene, a female friend of Weekly’s had taken the gun from the area, but after police contacted her, she returned with the rifle. She is not currently facing any charges. When police registered the weapon, they realized it was reported stolen in Weekly’s hometown of Charleston, ac-

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Lakayla Orr wins Ole Miss Idol

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TOP LEFT: (Left to right) Winners Asya Branch, second place; Lakayla Orr, first place; Anna Giovingo, third place. TOP RIGHT: Lakayla Orr performs at Ole Miss Idol Thursday night. She takes home the first place prize of $500. BOTTOM LEFT: Asya Branch performs at Ole Miss Idol Thursday night. She places second. BOTTOM RIGHT: Anna Giovingo performs at Ole Miss Idol Thursday night. She wins third place.

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Project proposals are due March 19 for the spring 2017 funding cycle of the Office of Sustainability’s Green Fund. The Green Fund committee is comprised of five students, two staff representatives and two faculty representatives. It hears project proposals from other students, faculty and staff at the university and determines which ones will be the most realistic, feasible and visible on campus. Proposals can be submitted by email to green@olemiss.edu. Nineteen projects have been funded since the program’s development, like the addition of hydration stations on campus, the UM Compost Program and the J.D. Williams Library low-e film installation. The compost program started as a pilot project where students composted

food waste from the Marketplace at the Residential College. It was then expanded to Rebel Market because of its success. The university now provides a baseline of $7,500 a semester to support projects, but the fund also receives donations, which are matched 50 percent by the university. Senior biology major and student representative Kelli Coleman said she would like to increase awareness of the Green Fund and engage more students through activities like fundraisers outside the Student Union. “I’d like students to know that it exists and that it’s there to support their ideas and give them an opportunity to leave a lasting impact on campus,” Coleman said. “It’s difficult to engage students in something they’re not familiar with. The main goal is to advertise and get the word out.” The students who work with

the Office of Sustainability have composted more than 77,000 pounds of campus food since the project began in 2013. Senior political science major and student representative Natalie Minton said she believes even the smallest ideas can make an enormous difference and everyone should try to submit an idea. “The Green Fund is important to our campus because it is an organization that is active in turning sustainability ideas into realities every year,” Minton said. “This means that the university is constantly growing and improving, and the Green Fund is a huge part of that.” The Office of Sustainability’s Green Fund has awarded more than $45,000 in funding since it was founded in 2013. The Green Fund was created after student environmentalists held a campus-wide vote on the creation of a fund for sustainability projects in 2011. Of the

1,800 students who voted, 95 percent were in favor. The goal of the organization is to financially support sustainability-related projects for things like transportation, waste reduction and energy efficiency. Lindsey Abernathy, project manager at the Office of Sustainability and committee chairperson of the Green Fund, said the program has been very beneficial to the university. “It’s really just an avenue to help make campus more sustainable and to allow students, faculty and staff an outlet to actually implement some of these projects they might have in mind,” Abernathy said. “It’s a very neat way to make an impact on campus.” “What we look for in Green Fund projects is, if we fund it, then how can it become a sustainable project that will continue on in the future,” Abernathy said.

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continued from page 1 Reed. Reed Ashton said she was still feeling jitters after hearing the results, but now they were happy jitters. “Despite being from different places, having different backgrounds and ethnicities, being Greek or non-Greek, we all are students here,” she said. “We all live in Oxford – it’s kind of our common ground.” An Oxford native, Kevin ran on a platform of further unifying the campus and the city to make sure students’ voices are heard at both City Hall and the Lyceum. “A lot of these students here at Ole Miss don’t really care about ASB a lot, but I got to see that they really cared about me, and it was really encouraging to see that,” Kevin said. Vice President-elect Elam Miller said his message has been about making sure everybody has a voice on campus, and he is looking forward to helping senators reach out to the student body. “I couldn’t have done it without these students,” Miller said. “Their support has meant the world to me.” Black Student Union President Terrius Harris served as Hoffman’s campaign manager throughout the election season. He embraced Hoffman with her fellow supporters on the Lyceum steps as their campaign came to a close. He said he felt the campaign brought up many important issues to the campus, and he hopes the conversation continues. “It will be his job to uphold and fight for the rights of every person and every demographic on campus,” Harris said. Kevin said Harris and the rest of Hoffman’s campaign had been especially encouraging to him in the last weeks of the race. “Campaigns have a really good propensity for getting chippy and for spiteful things to happen,” Kevin said. “I was just really happy that I didn’t have to deal with any nonsense in that regard.” After each campaign team reacted to the results, Kevin crossed the Lyceum steps, wading his way through Hoffman’s supporters to give her a hug. “I was congratulating her on a great campaign and really thanking her for running a smooth campaign,” he said. “Tuesday Emily sent me a really, really sweet text just encouraging me and telling me how much she appreciated me, and I just had to tell her that I appreciated that.” Kevin said he plans to hit the ground running his first day in office. “We’re going to develop a plan to make sure we have a cabinet that’ll be effective and representative the student body,” he said. “We’re going to have a lot of preparation for the oncoming school year.”

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Paintings from “Saturation” by Chatham Meade Kemp. PHOTO COURTESY: SOUTHSIDE GALLERY

Southside Gallery showcases abstract landscapes JACQUELINE KNIRNSCHILD jaknirns@go.olemiss.edu

This month, the walls of Southside Gallery are invigorated with vibrantly colored abstract landscape paintings. “Saturation,” by artist Chatham Meade Kemp, an assistant professor at William Carey University, is on exhibit until April 1. The artist reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, March 18, at Southside. Kemp’s artwork is inspired by her life in Hattiesburg, where she was born and raised. The pieces in the collection range from large oil on canvas to small oil pastel on paper. “Saturation,” an 18-piece collection all created within the past year, embodies Kemp’s ability to evaluate contrasting concepts. She pairs turbulence with stillness, mixes contemporary and traditional and combines rich colors with organic lines. The title “Saturation” stems from Kemp’s passion for duality, not only in content but also method. “I felt like saturation can refer to water when it rains, and there’s so much water that the ground is saturated,” Kemp said. “Also, in art terms, saturation means brightness, and a lot of the paintings have intensity of color.” Kemp thinks her tendency to use strong colors and movement in her art is representative of her energetic personality. The specific sensations the colors in her paintings evoke are also a contrast. Some pieces contain a lot of yellow, which Kemp said she considers hot and tropical. Others focus more on blue, which provides a quieter, soothing relief to the yellow. Kemp painted the gray and blue paintings last summer amid tragedy. “I had a friend who had chemo and also had another friend whose brother died,” Kemp said. “It was like a week without color, and I think that was, in part, response to calming down all

the colors but also the sadness of being concerned about these friends.” The paintings were meditative and stand out from the bright, warm-colored pieces, Kemp said. “The rest of the show is a lot more about joyfulness and exuberance,” Kemp said. She found inspiration in French artist Pierre Bernard, who also likes to use a lot of bright color. While looking at Bernard’s work, Kemp said she thought about her own art and felt like many people see bright paintings and think only of naïve happiness, not a balance that comes with joy. “In some ways, the paintings are kind of hopeful and about overcoming,” Kemp said. “They come from me trying to manage things that aren’t necessarily pleasant, but that means I have a freedom to sort of let go and make things better.” She likes to see where her paintings take her, but she also likes to tie in references, such as plants. “Saturation” includes two abstract still-life paintings. “I used to paint still lifes as an undergrad, but I would paint them very loosely and gesturally,” Kemp said. “I always vacillate back and forth between things that are more abstract and things that have a stronger reference. I think that when it works really well, I get it just right in the middle.” Specifically, for “Sweetwater Greenhouse” from the “Saturation” collection, Kemp said she used her friend’s pool surrounded by a greenhouse as a reference. Her friend used to sell tropical plants, and she loved going over to look at the flora, Kemp said. “It doesn’t actually look like her house at all,” Kemp said of the “Sweetwater Greenhouse” painting. “But it feels like her place. It feels hot, the way it does at her house.” When using a reference, Kemp focuses on how a scene

makes her feel, not its physical appearance, she said. “When I work the other way, it’s like the whole thing shuts down,” Kemp said of trying to capture appearance before emotion. “The poetry of the thing is gone.” With “Saturation,” Kemp aimed to use contemporary styles to challenge the traditional landscape painting. “I think that folks who paint landscapes often do it in a different way,” Kemp said. “I think my paintings are a lot more jumping forward – they confront you. They’re loud. They move. They’re busy.” Kemp’s mother is a landscape painter and often creates calm pieces that make the viewer look into the distance, Kemp said. “I never really thought of myself as a landscape artist,” Kemp said. “My definition of landscape was very different growing up.” The paint technique of “Saturation” differs from Kemp’s previous collections. She was inspired by Henri Matisse and New York City painter Bill Scott to use thinner paints. The color in Matisse’s work is very often thin, and the marks are direct contour marks, Kemp said.

“Rather than painting it and fixing it and then painting it and fixing it, he puts down a mark, and it’s right the first time,” Kemp said. “If he doesn’t nail it, he’ll scrape it off.” In addition to scraping off imperfect paint marks, “Saturation” is different because Kemp used the iPhone app “Brushes” to sketch and doodle whenever she had spare time. Brushes has many different kinds of brushes and color palettes, Kemp said. “It’s a really nifty way to draw,” she said. After her son was born, Kemp said she did not have as much time to go to the studio, so using Brushes was convenient. “I found that I could take a picture of the painting and then go back in this program Brushes and change and move the color around,” Kemp said. “So when I didn’t have time or was too tired, I could sit there and draw on my phone, and that became a habit for this show especially.” Kemp said she does not use Brushes to create an actual product but instead to change compositional aspects. At least 10 of the 18 paintings in “Saturation” were formulated using the app. Specifically, Kemp said,

she probably created about 40 different digital versions of “Approaching the Storm.” At 21, Kemp studied calligraphy in Tokyo, which was an experience that still subtly impacts the space of her paintings. A curator recently came to her studio and noticed the Japanese influences in the “Saturation” collection. “I can see the aerial perspective rather than the movingback-in-space type perspective,” the curator said to Kemp. Kemp said her experience in Tokyo was really important to her and “made her think about art differently.” Despite her international travel, Kemp returned to Hattiesburg in 2007 after finishing graduate school because she found a job at William Carey University. Kemp said that when she was younger, she just wanted to “get out and seize the day” but now, as an adult, she’s able to appreciate the benefits of living in Mississippi. “Now that I have a child, it’s a pretty laid-back life, and I have a lot of time to paint,” Kemp said.

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Second baseman Tate Blackman hits a ball for a double during Ole Miss’ game against Texas Tech Saturday, March 4, at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Texas Tech would go on to defeat Ole Miss 5-1. (Photo by: Cameron Brooks)

There are many questions surrounding Ole Miss baseball at the moment. When will Colby Bortles and Tate Blackman return from suspension? What can be done to break the current hitting slump? Are the offensive issues merely a phase or cause for greater worry than we realize? With conference play just over a week away, the answers should reveal themselves soon enough. After racing into the season and taking the NCAA by storm with a 7-0 start, head coach Mike Bianco’s Rebels have dropped five of their last six (now sitting at 8-5) and have struggled to maintain any sort of offensive consistency. The slump began before the suspensions

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of co-captains Bortles and Blackman, yet the lack of veteran leadership has only made things worse. Bortles’ 12 RBIs are almost double anyone else on the team, and he also leads in homers and slugging percentage. On top of that, his suspension forced centerfielder Ryan Olenek to move to third, while Kyle Watson holds Olenek’s spot. Blackman’s absence hurts just as much, if not more, as he was first on the team in batting average and is near the top of nearly every other offensive category. While the impact of the upperclassmen leaders’ suspension is not up for debate, the duration is. Bianco has made no comments so far as to when he plans on reinstating the two starters. With obvious hitting issues and a lack

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Track and ﬁeld gears up NCAA Indoor Championships A school-record 10 entries will represent Ole Miss at this weekend’s NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in College Station, Texas. Eleven athletes will compete for national titles for the eighth-ranked Rebel women and 28th-ranked men at Texas A&M’s Gilliam Indoor Stadium.

RAVEN SAUNDERS Women’s shot put: 19.10m/62-8 | No. 1 seed Women’s weight throw: 21.67m/71-1.25 | No 8 seed

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RYAN MANAHAN Men’s 800m: 1:47.76 | No. 16 seed

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RYAN MANAHAN, NICK DERAY, CRAIG ENGELS, SEAN TOBIN Men’s DMR: 9:26.55 | No. 1 seed

ready to go in and do their best to better that performance.” Gilliam Indoor Stadium, built in 2009, is one of the most modern and comprehensive indoor track facilities in the nation. With the capacity to hold 5,000 fans, Texas A&M held the NCAA Division 1 Track Championship there in 2009. “Texas A&M has a great facility, a little different than the others we’ve been in this year. It’s a fairly high banked track. It’s decent for spectator view, so it’ll be nice to sit in the stands and watch everything. We won’t be on the infield right next to the athletes, so that will be a different. I think it’s going to be a great meet,” Price-Smith said. Friday’s events include the women’s shot put, men’s 800-meter prelims, men’s shot put, men’s 5000 meters and men’s distance medley relay. Saturday’s events include the women’s pole vault, women’s weight throw and men’s 800-meter final.

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Robert Domanic and Trevor Gilley will also attend the meet as possible members of the distance medley relay squad. Head coach Connie Price-Smith, a four-time Olympian and gold medalist at the 1999 Pan Am games, continues to bring elite talent to Oxford. This year, perhaps more than any other, she has plenty of reasons to be optimistic. “It’s nice to have such a large group going to the championships. On the men’s side, we have eight athletes, and on the women’s side, we have three. If they go in there and do what they’re capable of doing, who knows what the outcome might be.” Price-Smith said, “The men’s distance side has had a great year going from cross to indoors. I think they’re all really excited about going out there and being able to show what they can do and represent Ole Miss. I think their excitement about it will help them perform really well. Just about everybody going has been to NCAAs before. After having run the DMR and getting third last year, they’re

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Rebels cruise past Mizzou, move to SEC quarterﬁnals BRIAN SCOTT RIPPEE thedmsports@gmail.com

Deandre Burnett rattled home a 3-point ball from the top of the key and ran back down to the defensive end grimacing in pain. The junior guard’s knees were far from 100 percent on Thursday night, but you couldn’t have gathered that from his 23-point performance in Ole Miss’ 86-74 win over Missouri in the second round of the SEC Tournament. Burnett hit his first six shots of the game and helped the Rebels navigate their way out of a sluggish start in which the rest of the team opened the game missing 12 of their first 15 shots. “Any time you make your first shot it feels good. All the pain goes out of the way,” Burnett said. “I’m just trying to battle through it and play hard for my team. That was pretty much my mindset.” Ole Miss came to Nashville, Tennessee, with its NCAA Tournament hopes on life support and with a little bit of momentum. The Rebels are peaking when it counts, closing out the regular season with a 75-70 victory over South Carolina. Andy Kennedy had hoped that his team would use that momentum to make a run in a building his program had a history with. His 2013 team won an SEC Championship in Bridgestone Arena, and his 2017 bunch will likely need to do the same if it wishes to earn a bid to the Big Dance. Four games in four nights is a tall task, but Kennedy and his group are taking it one step at a time.

The Rebels made quick work of Mizzou in the first leg of its postseason journey. Sebastian Saiz had a double-double at halftime with 12 points and 11 boards. He finished with 14 points and 16 rebounds. The Tigers made six of their first 11 3-point shots, and it was primarily why Ole Miss had trouble distancing itself, even with Burnett’s early explosion. “I just think the fact that we were putting a lot of pressure on them, they got a little fatigued,” Kennedy said. “They went to that zone, and then at the end of that zone they were going man-to-man and confused us a little bit early with it. But then we went downhill until TD (Terence Davis) made a couple of huge plays.” Davis had 19 points on the night. But the Rebels took a 46-36 lead into halftime and really never looked over their shoulder after that. Breein Tyree had eight quick points to begin the second half, and the lead quickly ballooned to 16 as Missouri began to lose its composure with a pair of technical fouls – one on head coach Kim Anderson and the other on Russell Woods. It was the end of a frustrating year for PHOTO COURTESY: JOSH MCCOY | OLEMISSSPORTS.COM the Tigers and a step up the ladder for the Rebels. Junior guard Deandre Burnett drives toward the goal for a layup during Ole Miss’ game against Missouri. Burnett finBut there are many more ished the night with 23 points, leading the Rebels to a win to advance in the SEC Tournament. rungs for this team to kansas on Friday night or missed a shot, they Kennedy said. “He obviclimb if it wishes to claw in the quarterfinals, a would beat us in transi- ously couldn’t play in our back into the NCAA Tourteam that beat the Rebels tion, so we’ve just got to last outing. Our medical nament conversation. handily in their regular get back in transition.” staff did a good job do“Really, we are just tryseason matchup in FayA healthy Burnett ing whatever they could. ing to win two games in etteville. Arkansas likes wouldn’t hurt, either. This is something that two days right now, and to play fast and Ole Miss The junior had ice packs will have to be evaluated the rest will take care will have to adjust if it on his knee in the post- at the end of the season, of itself,” Kennedy said. wishes to have better luck game press conference. which is thankfully not “The first one is always this time around. But Kennedy had faith tonight. He is a warrior.” the most difficult.” “Transition and getting that his guard would be Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. Ole Miss’ reward for back,” Burnett said. “Ev- available on Friday. victory is a date with Arery time we made a shot “I think he will be OK,”

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