
Temple forwards sophomore Ines Piper and senior Denise Solis were in foul trouble for most of the contest, allowing Ole Miss to execute their game plan of driving to the basket. So we’re gonna concentrate more on the box and making contact on the box so that we can get more rebounds.”

At least we get an opportunity or a shot at getting the rebound. We’ve got to get in that habit of boxing them out.

“We’ve got to put bodies on people whether they’re taller or not. “I think we are still working on boxing out,” Richardson said. The Rebels also successfully got by the Owls’ forwards and scored 36 points down low compared to Temple’s 16. In today’s contest, Temple was outrebounded 37-33. Overall, the Owls’ paint presence on both sides of the ball and their ability to grab rebounds has been a recurring issue this season. “Because they’re really, really big and their posts are really big inside and they block up the lane and they play well together and unfortunately we couldn’t stop them.” “We wanted to use our speed against them,” said head coach Diane Richardson. Senior forward Tyia Singleton and senior guard Marquesha Davis both had eight points, helping the Rebels jump out to a 26-9 lead in the first quarter. On the opposite end, the Rebels came out shooting an impressive 78 percent from the field, while hitting all of their threes. 16, had trouble putting the ball in the basket, shooting a poor 18 percent from the field in the first quarter. The Owls, who were looking for a second consecutive win after their 66-60 victory against Duquesne University on Dec. The Rebels outperformed the Owls’ offense and defense in almost every way for the majority of the game. Patterson will be the most exciting player to watch in the SEC this season.Temple Women’s Basketball (5-7, 0-0 American Athletic Conference) lost 75-55 to the University of Mississippi (11-2, 0-0 Southeastern Conference) on Wednesday afternoon at The Liacouras Center. They ray of light for the Ole Miss Rebels could be their rising sophomore quarterback Shea Patterson, who started the final three games of the 2016 season. Ole Miss looks to bounce back after their 5-7 season last year, but it doesn’t help matters that the Rebels have the cloud of an NCAA investigation hanging over them. Ole Miss and Texas A&M are the only two teams from the SEC West that have never played in the SEC championship game, while Kentucky and Vanderbilt are the only two teams from the SEC East that have yet to play in the SEC championship game. Only Mississippi State’s 76-year drought is longer. The Rebels also claim three national titles in school history from 1959, 1960, and 1962.Īrkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt are the only schools in the conference that have never won an SEC championship, but of the schools that have won a conference title, Ole Miss has the second-longest drought. Kentucky: 2023 Baton Rouge Super Regional preview, prediction

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