When Matt Insell was fired last season after a really bad year, Ole Miss found Yolett McPhee-McCuin or “Coach Yo” at Jacksonville University and hired her. A prolific mass exodus followed, with nine players leaving despite no seniors on the team.
Yeah. That’s pretty rough. Coach Yo scrambled to fill the roster, signing four high schoolers, two junior college players, and three transfers from four-year colleges.
The Rebels have been bad this season. They’re 3-6 with a No. 200 RPI ranking. Real Time RPI predicts they’ll finish the year with a 12-18 record. With an injury to freshman point guard Mimi Reid (who I’ll talk more about in a minute), the team is starting three seniors and two juniors.