Ole Miss 90 - Jacksonville State 75

by Juco All-American on Dec 30, 2009 12:26 PM EST

Some quick thoughts from last night's game:

- If Terrico can continue to shoot in a similar fashion to how he did last night, the Rebs will go far, and White will be a high draft pick. For those not paying attention, White tied the single-game three point record held by Clarence Sanders and a few other Rebs (including Trevor Gaskins).

- Last night gave us the kind of night we need from Reggie Buckner. The freshman recorded four blocks, was 4-5 shooting, and pulled down eight boards. Keep it up, big guy. Oh, but yeah... your free throw shooting, don't keep that up. 1-4 hurts us almost as badly as Murphy Holloway's 1-6.

- Chris Warren dished out eight assists. Distributing the basketball hasn't been the name of Warren's game, and it shouldn't be, but he'll need to be able to do it when pressured. Our team will not win games that matter if Warren just tries to rain contested threes on the opposition (which he still did a good bit in this game).

- Trevor Gaskins had his best game of the year, going 2-4 from 3-pt range, somehow bringing in seven rebounds, and tallying 4 assists.

- I'm not really sure what happened to Zach Graham last night. He started off hot, generating loads of offense for us, but when the night was over, he had gone 4-11 and 2-7 from three point range. He'll need to pick that up to keep his starting spot.

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And DeAndre Cranston at 8 minutes is about right.

No more than that, I say. Although the box score said he got 3 rebounds, what I saw was him getting beaten repeatedly on defense and being easily boxed out several times by undersized guards. Buckner earned his stripes last night. From now on, let him play all or most of DC’s minutes.

by 18mph on Dec 30, 2009 12:50 PM EST reply actions

Bianca Thomas had a record game as well.

7 treys to tie the school record and bounced one off the rim in the last seconds that would have broken it. Her shot is unconventional (it starts low), so I think she may get shut down pretty easily in the pros, but it was fun to watch. Between her threes and Terrico’s, the game ops people ran out of t-shirts to toss to the crowd before the end of the men’s game.

by 18mph on Dec 30, 2009 12:54 PM EST reply actions

Actually, Keith Carter holds the school record with 8 3s

He could’ve hit 10 or 12 that night against Prairie View, but was in foul trouble, so Evans took him out. He was in a zone though.

Terrico became the 6th player in Kennedy’s 4-year tenure to knock down 7 3s in a game – Terrico, David Huertas, Chris Warren, Eniel Polynice, Trevor Gaskins, and Clarence Sanders. I’d venture a guess that no other program has had that many different players hit 7 3s in a game over the same time span.

I know more about college basketball than you do. It's a law. Like water. Or dinosaurs.

by buster_bluth on Dec 30, 2009 3:17 PM EST reply actions

Pretty sure that record was against Temple…

by ballin11 on Dec 30, 2009 5:04 PM EST up reply actions

I was wrong, you were right. Just checked. It seemed like he made about 10 in that Temple game, though. He was unstoppable.

by ballin11 on Dec 30, 2009 5:06 PM EST reply actions

I believe he "only" hit 6 against Temple...

…but they were all in the 2nd half. He finished that game with some ridiculous statline like 33 pts and 16 rebounds and turned a tie game at half into a 10-12 point win for the Rebels. That was one of my favorite games while I was in school. He came out after halftime and dominated a half like few Rebels have since.

I know more about college basketball than you do. It's a law. Like water. Or dinosaurs.

by buster_bluth on Dec 30, 2009 5:26 PM EST reply actions