2016-17 BASKETBALL GAME NOTES
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2016-17 SCHEDULE Date 11/3 11/11 11/14 11/18 11/20 11/21 11/24 11/30 12/3 12/11 12/15 12/19 12/22 12/29 1/3 1/7 1/11 1/14 1/17 1/21 1/25 1/28 1/31 2/4 2/8 2/11 2/14 2/18 2/21 2/25 3/1 3/4 3/9
Opponent [TV] Time/Result MOREHOUSE (Ex.) [SECN+] W, 90-66 TENNESSEE-MARTIN [SECN+] W, 86-83 UMASS [SECN] W, 90-88 vs. Oral Roberts^ [CBSSPORTS] W, 95-88 (OT) vs. Saint Joseph’s^ [CBSSPORTS] W, 81-68 vs. #12/18 Creighton^ [CBSS] L, 86-77 MONTANA [SECN+] W, 86-81 MIDDLE TENNESSEE [SECN+] L, 77-62 MEMPHIS [SECN+] W, 85-77 at Virginia Tech [ESPNU] L, 80-75 MURRAY STATE [SECN+] W, 78-73 BRADLEY [SECN] W, 66-49 SOUTH ALABAMA [SECN] W, 92-58 #8/8 KENTUCKY* [ESPN2] L, 99-76 at #24/24 Florida* [ESPNU] L, 70-63 at Auburn* [SECN] W, 88-85 GEORGIA* [ESPNU] L, 69-47 at RV/RV South Carolina* [ESPNU] L, 67-56 TENNESSEE* [SECN] W, 80-69 at Missouri* [SECN] W, 75-71 TEXAS A&M* [ESPN2] L, 80-76 #5/5 BAYLOR% [ESPN2] L, 78-75 MISSISSIPPI STATE* [SECN] W, 88-61 at Vanderbilt* [ESPNU] W, 81-74 at Tennessee* [SECN] L, 75-66 AUBURN* [SECN] W, 90-84 LSU* [SECN] W, 96-76 at Arkansas* [SECN] L, 98-80 at Mississippi State* [ESPN2] W, 87-82 (OT) MISSOURI* [SECN] W, 80-77 at Alabama* [SECN] L, 70-55 SOUTH CAROLINA* [SECN] W, 75-70 SEC Tournament $ 8:30 PM
* SEC Game | Ranking: AP/USA TODAY | All Times CT ^ Paradise Jam (St. Thomas, Virgin Islands) % Big 12/SEC Challenge $ SEC Tournament (Nashville, Tenn.)
OLE MISS STYLE GUIDE
SEC
TOURNAMENT #11: Auburn (15-15, 6-12 SEC) #14: Missouri (9-22, 3-15 SEC)
SEC TOURNAMENT Date: Thrusday, March 9, 2017 Time: 8:30 p.m. CT Location: Nashville, Tenn. Arena: Bridgestone Arena (19,395) Television: SEC Network Tom Hart, play-by-play Jon Sundvold, analyst Laura Rutledge, sideline Radio: Ole Miss Radio Network David Kellum, play-by-play Keith Carter, analyst Live Audio: OleMissSports.com Live Video: WatchESPN.com Series: Ole Miss 30-52 in SECT AU: AU leads 74-59 MU: OM leads 8-1
Ole Miss
REBELS
(19-12, 10-8 SEC) Head Coach: Andy Kennedy Career: 252-151/12th At OM: 231-138/11th
TIP OFF • Ole Miss enters the SEC Tournament as the No. 6 seed and will face the Auburn-Missouri winner Thursday night. The Rebels have beaten 10 straight opponents with a Tiger mascot. • The Rebels finished the regular season tied for fifth in the league standings after being predicted to finish ninth in the SEC this year by the media. Ole Miss has not finished worse than sixth in the league and has finished above its preseason projected finish each of the last six seasons since the league moved away from a divisional format. • Ole Miss and Kentucky are the only two schools in the league to finish .500 or better in the SEC each of the last six seasons. • Head coach Andy Kennedy recently moved past former Kentucky coach Rick Pitino into 19th on the SEC career coaching victories list and now has 231 wins at Ole Miss. With the win over Mississippi State, Kennedy earned his 250th victory as a head coach and now has 252 wins in his career. • Kennedy is the first coach in SEC history post 11 straight winning seasons after taking over a program with four constitutive losing season. He is also tied with Rick Stansbury (MSU) for the fourth most wins in SEC history by a coach in his first 11 years in the league at one school. • Sophomore G Terence Davis is averaging 17.1 points a game over his last seven games. He has increased his scoring this season 12.2 ppg over last year, which is the largest increase in scoring for any player in the SEC. • A victory would give Ole Miss 20 wins for the ninth time in 11 seasons under Andy Kennedy, who would join Billy Donovan, Joe. B. Hall, Nolan Richardson, Tubby Smith as the only coaches in SEC history to accomplish that feat. • Senior F Sebastian Saiz recorded his 28th career double-double with 21 points and 15 boards in the win over South Carolina and now has 19 double-doubles this season, which leads the SEC and ranks fifth nationally. Saiz leads the SEC and ranks seventh in the nation pulling down 10.9 rebounds a game and is the only player in the conference this season a veraging a double-double. The league’s active career rebounding leader, he recently moved past Reggie Buckner i nto third in Ole Miss history with 937 rebounds. Saiz has topped both 1,000 points and 900 boards in his career and joins Rebel great Murphy Holloway as the only two players in school history with 1,000 points and 9 00 rebounds. Saiz is also first player in school history and just the 16th player in SEC history with 1,000 points, 9 00 rebounds and 100 blocked shots. • Saiz was named the 2017 C Spire Howell Trophy winner as the most outstanding player in Mississippi. It was the fifth straight time a Rebel has won the award. He also earned first team All-SEC honors from the league’s coaches. • Two Ole Miss signees - Devontae Shuler and Jamarko Pickett - were recently ranked inside the top 100 and four- star prospects in the latest release of the Scout.com ranking. Shuler was rated the No. 57 prospect in the nation, while Pickett checked in at No. 99.
PROJECTED OLE MISS STARTERS F | 11 | SEBASTIAN SAIZ 6-9 | 240 | Sr. | Madrid, Spain
F | 5 | MARCANVIS HYMON 6-7 | 220 | Jr. | Memphis, Tenn.
G | 14 | RASHEED BROOKS 6-5 | 201 | Sr. | Kalamazoo, Mich.
G | 4 | BREEIN TYREE 6-2 | 192 | Fr. | Somerset, N.J.
G | 3 | TERENCE DAVIS 6-4 | 201 | So. | Southaven, Miss.
PTS REB BLK STL FG% FT% 15.1 10.9 1.1 1.0 47.7 72.9 PTS 3.6
REB 4.9
BLK 1.1
STL 0.7
FG% 51.2
FT% 43.4
PTS 7.0
REB 2.7
AST 1.5
STL 0.9
FG% 37.3
FT% 90.5
PTS 7.2
REB 1.9
AST 1.9
STL 0.5
FG% 39.3
FT% 73.8
PTS 14.0
REB 5.3
AST 1.6
STL 1.4
FG% 46.1
FT% 73.8