Trailing by three points with just over two minutes remaining, Ole Miss senior Terence Davis was no doubt starting to sweat his team’s once-strong NCAA Tournament resume. A road loss to Missouri wouldn’t necessarily doom the Rebels—19-10 Ole Miss boasted strong wins over Auburn and Mississippi State and, just as importantly, no truly bad losses—but an L in the final regular season game would put them in a dicy situation heading into the SEC Tourney.
Davis hadn’t minced words heading into the game.
“We’ve gotta win,” he told the Clarion-Ledger. “I just feel like we’re going on the road, we’ve lost three straight.