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The Ole Miss hoops support staff is schooling other staffs in pickup games

And as of Monday night, they're 2-0!

By Jim Lohmar
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College basketball support staffs are essential components of college basketball programs' success. They print shot sheets, help with coaches' court stools, and warm the team up prior to tipoff. At Ole Miss, they also challenge their counterparts at opponents' programs to pick-up games the night before each team's scholarship players take the court.

The Rebel staffers' first game -- a close 68-65 affair, which apparently ended on a buzzer-beating three -- took place the night before the Basketbears dropped Memphis, 85-79, in the Grindhouse. Monday, with Troy in Oxford before Tuesday's proceedings in the Tad Pad, the Rebs' managers stomped the Trojans' managers big time, 84-54. That moves them to 2-0 before SEC play commences, and undefeated both at home and on the road.

Men's basketball graduate assistant Kory Keys has donned the role of curator for the staffers' season, which is noble, insofar as beat writing brings with it all the attendant Twitter eggs and hate mail.

This sort of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern interest is wonderful. You can follow the latest updates on the Rebel basketball managers here and further ponder the question of who, technically, will have played the first game in the Pavilion come its January opening.