It’s early August. It’s sweltering outside. Ole Miss football practice just started back up. You’re trying to figure out which of your friends’ fall weddings you can skip and which football weekends you’ll be spending in Oxford.
So why the hell did you see a headline about Ole Miss basketball beating some team in Canada, of all places?
Yes, the Rebel hoopsters kicked off the era of new head coach Kermit Davis with a 102-61 beatdown of McGill University in Montreal on Sunday afternoon. Its the first of a four-game tour north of the border this week and part of a growing trend of college basketball teams heading out of the country for summer tournaments.