Breein Tyree is officially a hero. The undersized guard drove hard to the rim to push Ole Miss ahead, 79-77, in the closing seconds of Saturday’s rivalry bout in Starkville, and in so doing spurred an upset win over No. 14 Mississippi State, 81-77. That makes two top-25 upsets in the span of one week, perhaps the most successful seven-day span in the last six years.
The first 10 minutes of this affair dictated how the rest of the afternoon would play out. Breein Tyree took a hard screen directly to his left shoulder and left briefly to get looked at in the locker room.