Dayton @ Ole Miss Game Thread
 

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Mississippi Rebels
Last Season: 24-11 (9-7)
Key Losses: Terrico White, DeAundre Cranston, Murphy Holloway, Eniel Polynice
Head Coach: Andy Kennedy

Projected Starting Lineup
PG: Chris Warren 5-10 Sr.
SG: Trevor Gaskins 6-2 Jr.
SF: Zach Graham 6-6 Sr.
PF: Terrance Henry 6-9 Jr.
C: Reginald Buckner 6-8 So.
Key Reserves: Nick Williams 6-4 Jr. SG, Demarco Cox 6-8 Fr. C, Dundrecous Nelson 5-11 Fr. PG

After losing to Tennessee in the first round of the SEC tournament, Ole Miss blew its chance at reaching the NCAA tournament. But the Rebels made the most of their trip to the NIT by winning three games in a row over Troy, Memphis and Texas Tech and reaching the semifinals, where they lost by five points to Dayton. But despite not reaching the NCAA tournament, it was a strong way to finish the season. And although the Rebels lost three of their top five scorers, they still look to build on their NIT momentum with the quality players who are returning.

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Ole Miss' starting lineup for saturday:

G 12 Chris Warren 5’10” 168 SR Orlando, Florida
G 20 Nick Williams 6’4” 215 SO Mobile, Alabama
F 32 Zach Graham 6’6” 210 SR Suwanee, Georgia
F 2 Reginald Buckner 6’9” 238 SO Memphis, Tennessee
C 1 Terrance Henry 6’10” 210 JR Monroe, Louisiana

Ole Miss frosh has All-Name Team potential:
 

You have to love a name like 'Dundrecous Nelson' :D

I'm gonna bet there is not going to be anyone at this other than family, friends, and the cheerleaders/band who have to be there. The Ole Miss LSU football game is just now getting ready to start the 4th quarter and Ole Miss is up 24-23. There is no way those people are leaving where they are watching the football game to come to the basketball game. There may not be 3000 people actually there. The attendance they end up listing may be more but it will be a tickets sold number.

It looks as though there are literally 5 people there

Looks like one of those secret scrimmages. Quite the rebelution isn't it?

Heres to two Ole Miss losses in the final minute today!

Cheers, and Go Flyers

This is the Dayton team we know and love

well we better hope to heat up soon or it could get out of hand

Our defense is absolutely pathetic right now. As bad as I've seen from the Flyers in a looooong time.

We are playing absolutely no defense at all. They are 6-7 from the field. 13-2 Olemiss

Nightmare start.

I love how we show up for games that actually matter.......

CJ is in the building!!!!

Nice run to make it a 4 pt deficit. Let's keep it up!

And Benson with another bucket. 13-9 Ole Miss.

Benson off to a nice start. Nice feed by Wright on Benson's first bucket.

Benson showed up!

Wright is forcing it a little too much on offense, however he has made some real nice passes to the baseline player.

I like the fire Benson has been playing with so far.

cw off to a rough start. Needs to be patient

parker struggling on defense

I'm really not impressed with Parker's defense.

If not for Josh Benson, we'd be getting blown out.

this can be an 80 point game, which being away i believe favors Ole Miss.

Benson is a beast right now. 29-24 Ole Miss

We have to defend the 3 better and rebound the ball. Spearman can't stay with his man right now either.

What a surprise...defending the 3 is an issue once again. BG better nip this in the butt better than he did agianst akron

I don't think we'll ever see a good FT shooting team at UD...ever.

Why do other teams have players that hit shots from the third row????

Paging Chris Wright. Paging Chris Wright. Where are you?

I can't believe they finally missed a 3.

Finally CW makes an appearance...we won't win this if doesn't show up.

Paul Williams is the only guy we have that can guard their pg.

Man, Parker is frustrating me tonight

im going to take a guess the ole miss is playing a zone....

When Parker is in, our offense goes down the crapper. He has no clue how to attack the D...it's like watching last years team.

Me too. He's not playing a lick of defense and he's not boxing out. Josh, I know you're a guard, but you still need to box out. Ugh!

Ole Miss plays good music during their timeouts. Why can't we do that.

ole miss is shooting a better % from 3 (46%) than we are from the field (42%) i would say they are lucky...but this happened last game

Different year....same ol crap...nothing changes with this coach or team. Nothing.

ok im getting some hints , as i'm gamecasting on espn.

the y are hitting threes.
they started off strong.

benson led a slight comeback.

can someone summarize at halftime the bigger picture of what happened?

Many thanks

We cant stop them from making shots, period.

Not contesting threes

impatient on offense and Ole Miss is making them pay for not stopping dribble penetration

We have to defend better and we have to either hit some shots or get some offensive rebounds. They are just as(or more) athletic than us and we are not just able to out jump them for rebounds like we do alot of nights.

Its going to be tough to make a comeback in this one.

That is exactly right. Our guards have to do a better job of preventing initial penetration. Every time they drive we have to help and we leave them with wide open looks that they are burying.

not just guards, their forwards are penetrating. They either get close to the rim or dish for an open jump shot ... and they are good looking shooters, I wouldn't expect them to start missing most of them.

Raise your hand if you think CW will ever turn into a consistent basketball player here at UD?

Didn't think so..............

for a guy who gets the term "All American" thrown out there a bunch...he sure does have allot of games with 7 points and 4 rebounds. I'd take that this game.

We're only 3 games into this season and I already miss London's ball pressure. When our pgs can't cover their pgs, we're in trouble.

Xavier has a good pg, we have a lot of work to do if we are going to slow down Holloway.

Wright....are you kidding me?

Wright loses control of the ball when he had a wide open dunk. Unbelievable!

Different year, same shizit, they are horrible on the road--can anyone imagine what George Mason will do to them--they are much better than Ole Miss

Wouldn't it be nice if the Rebels let them back into this game the way UD let Akron back in

Staten is trying to force things.

The sky is falling Chicken little. Isn't it a little too early for the bandwagon fans to jump off:eek::whiteflag::whiteflag:
Get a grip boys;)

No way he gets drafted...no way.

Warm up the bus....we are awful. This Ole Miss folks....a bubble team.

And Chris Wright gets driven around again!

CW is 1-7 and almost all have been layups.

And he just lost it out of bounds........

Getting destroyed, something tells me that I'm going to want these 2 hours back when it's over. Unfortunately, it's not surprising.

Time for a run.

road woes continue. fascinating. come out the 2nd half and play this bad?

And I felt good about this game. Shows you what I know.

CW still can't shoot the three. Please stop.

Those who yell at us for jumping off the bandwagon this early will say it all the way up until we're in the NIT again...and it will be acceptable to them too.

Some folks are just poor losers and they overreact when things aren't going their way. It's always been that way and will always be. Nothing we can really do about it.

Ole Miss is just a better team right now. It's a long season. Our team has a lot of improving to do.

Time for a run.

Only down 10. If we can keep them off the offensive glass we can get back in this. We can't keep letting them get 2nd chances.

You guys need to freakin' relax! It's one game. We may deserve 2 losses for it but it's just one. First road game for a bunch of guys. It'll be fine, just breathe deeply and you'll be OK.

And we have the young talent and the coaching to make that improvement

PW can't stay in front of Dundrecous.

Wright!!!!!! Put him on the bench! He's awful!

And our future NBA player can't dribble to lead a 3 on 2 break. Pitiful

Is it the first road game for Chris Wright? He is absolutely worthless tonight.

Wright has had a bad game, no doubt. But he is not what worries me, he'll bounce back. Our perimeter defense is what worries me. Nobody (I thought Paul could, but he's struggled in the 2nd half) can stay with their PG. That worries me.

we need to chip away on this lead....still a lot of time left

cant trade buckets, need stops!

I can promise you there is no "future NBA" for CW.

And out of a Timeout we turn it over. Nice!

cw just get worse as the game goes on...

It will be incredibly difficult for him if he can't make a shot outside of 14 feet.

I was being sarcastic. I completely agree.

According to GameTracker--UM is hitting 65% of their shots from inside the arc--nice D

oh man, Benson got hit in the marbles bad

And now Benson goes down. Looks like he pulled his groin when he slipped.

needs a jump shot and needs better handles. i can see him going undrafted and then maybe being picked up after going in for some workouts post draft.

Parker while maybe not shooting well has 1 turnover, Staten 5.

My opinion is that Staten should NOT have gotten this team at Game 1. He should have earned his way into into by Game 10 or so as our starter.

which is why you force when you"re a Freshman in your first road game against a Quality opponent.

Ah c'mon he does the intangibles per BG.

Can anybody take a break from b****ing and post a time and score?

Just think how Fabreeze would have helped in Akron and right now.

very different game if he's around

CW is 2 of 10 from the floor?

63- 57 Ole Miss 4:45 left

Down 6 with 4:40 to go

According to GameTracker 63-57 UM with 5:10 left in the game

4:45
63-57 Ole Miss

Cmon Paul!!! Hit these FTS and cut it to 4.

call me crazy....and I know a lot of people on here don't like me, but I'm happy to report that I think we will win this game now.

Our best defense is to send them to the line right now.

63-59

PW hits 2 ft, down 4

59-63