Sports
Rebels Hang Early but Fall at LSU
Matt Insell, Head Coach
Photo by Joshua McCoy/Ole Miss Athletics
Ole Miss women’s basketball put up a fight early, but a consistent shooting effort out of LSU proved too much to overcome in an 84-55 loss to the Lady Tigers inside the Maravich Center on Thursday night.
The Rebels owned the momentum early, jumping out to a 7-2 lead in the opening minutes, but LSU responded by stealing the momentum right back, which it would not relinquish the remainder of the game. The Tigers closed the quarter on an 18-9 run and used a 15-0 run in the opening minutes of the second quarter to give LSU a comfortable 40-24 halftime lead.
Leading the way for Ole Miss were two solid outings by Alissa Alston (16 points, four assists) and Shelby Gibson (15 points, 10 rebounds), as well as decent showings from Madinah Muhammad (nine points, three rebounds) and Barbara Johnson (nine points).
For Alston, this is her fifth-straight double-digit scoring game and 18th of the season. Tonight also registers as the first career double-double for Gibson, who did so with a career-high 10 rebounds. Muhammad, meanwhile, will return home with just eight points left to the 1,000-point milestone for her career at 992 points.
LSU never shot worse than 53.3 percent in a quarter tonight, lighting up the nets for an Ole Miss opponent season-high 55.4 game shooting percentage. The Lady Tigers had four in double-digits, led by Raigyne Louis, who tonight became the third active SEC player to cross the 1,600-point mark in career scoring with 25 points this evening. Ole Miss was able to find success on the foul line at 84.2 percent (16-of-19), but LSU – which ranks as the top three-point defense in the SEC – used a strong defensive gameplan to keep the hot-shooting Rebels off the three-point line at a season-low 5.6 percent from beyond the arc.
The Rebels return home for a nationally televised tilt vs. Georgia on Monday night inside The Pavilion at Ole Miss.
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Courtesy of Ole Miss Sports Information
| Mon, Nov 4 |  | vs Long Island University | W, 90-60 |
| Fri, Nov 8 |  | vs Grambling | W, 66-64 |
| Tue, Nov 12 |  | vs South Alabama | W, 64-54 |
| Sat, Nov 16 |  | vs Colorado State | W, 84-69 |
| Thu, Nov 21 |  | vs Oral Roberts | L, 100-68 |
| Thu, Nov 28 |  | vs BYU | W, 96-85 OT |
| Fri, Nov 29 |  | vs 13 Purdue | L, 80-78 |
| Tue, Dec 3 |  | @ Louisville | W, 86-63 |
| Sat, Dec 7 |  | vs Lindenwood | W, 86-53 |
| Sat, Dec 14 |  | vs Southern Miss | W, 77-46 |
| Tue, Dec 17 |  | vs Southern | W, 74-61 |
| Sat, Dec 21 |  | vs Queens University | W, 80-62 |
| Sat, Dec 28 |  | @ Memphis | L, 87-70 |
| Sat, Jan 4 |  | vs Georgia | W, 63-51 |
| Wed, Jan 8 |  | @ 23 Arkansas | W, 73-66 |
| Sat, Jan 11 |  | vs LSU | W, 77-65 |
| Tue, Jan 14 |  | @ 5 Alabama | W, 74-64 |
| Sat, Jan 18 |  | @ 17 Mississippi State | L, 81-84 |
| Wed, Jan 22 |  | vs 13 Texas A&M | L, 62-63 |
| Sat, Jan 25 |  | @ Missouri | L, 83-75 |
| Wed, Jan 29 |  | vs Texas | W, 72-69 |
| Sat, Feb 1 |  | vs 2 Auburn | L, 92-82 |
| Tue, Feb 4 |  | vs 10 Kentucky | W, 98-84 |
| Sat, Feb 8 | | @ LSU | 7:30 PM SECN |
| Wed, Feb 12 |  | @ South Carolina | 6:00 PM SECN |
| Sat, Feb 15 | | vs 17 Mississippi State | 5:00 PM TBA |
| Sat, Feb 22 |  | @ Vanderbilt | 2:30 PM SECN |
| Wed, Feb 26 | | @ 2 Auburn | 6:00 PM TBA |
| Sat, Mar 1 |  | vs 12 Oklahoma | 1:00 PM TBA |
| Wed, Mar 5 |  | vs 1 Tennessee | 8:00 PM TBA |
| Sat, Mar 8 |  | @ 6 Florida | 5:00 PM SECN |