Ole Miss basketball heads out for tournament play in South Carolina, where they could end up facing Oklahoma State and Virginia (hello, RPI boosts).
When Ole Miss dropped their first regular season game of 2014 to Charleston Southern, 65-66, most followers of the team threw their hands up in the all-too-common exasperation felt about Rebel basketball. Then, however, the Basketbears went on to win last year's Emerald City Classic and in the process knock off at-the-time No. 23 Creighton and perennial powerhouse Cincinnati.
Those early season tournament wins count for something. The Bearcats landed a No. 8 seed in 2015's NCAA Tournament, which earned them a second-round date with Kentucky, and we all know how that one ended.