“Who’s state?” Blake Hinson bellowed rhetorically into the camera. “Our state!”
One could hardly blame the dude for letting his emotions run hot. The freshman had just dropped a career-high 26 points in the toughest road environment of his young career, buoying Ole Miss to a shocking 81-77 win over 14th-ranked Mississippi State. Back in the locker room of Humphrey Coliseum, he and his teammates were celebrating their second win over a top-15 division foe in the span of four days.
“All these guys have a lot of fight in them. They love to win,” a much calmer Hinson told the NCAA’s Andy Katz an hour later.