The Ole Miss basketball team entered last week 1-7 near the bottom of the SEC standings with no sense of cohesion or confidence, but two impressive wins over South Carolina and Florida on Wednesday and Saturday showed a team with a new swagger.
The Rebels handled the first two games of the three-contest homestand perfectly, beating the Gamecocks 84-70 and the Gators 68-51 in the Pavillion.
Suddenly, the team that looked dead in the water seven days ago is playing like the NCAA tournament team it was supposed to be all season, and they might be the trickiest team in the SEC.