University of Mississippi NCAA News

So many unusual things happened in the final 3 minutes of Mississippi's victory Saturday against No.

Denis Clemente raced upcourt with the basketball, stopped inches short of the three-point line and swished a jumper.

LSU quarterback Matt Flynn's face was in his hands after an interception on a two-point conversion attempt had apparently ended the team's national championship quest in 2007.

Ole Miss running back Dexter McCluster has home-run ability. LSU will have to play with great focus and intensity, because all he needs is a crack of daylight to make a game-changing play.

Things are looking awfully familiar for No. 10 LSU and Mississippi. There are two games left in the season and the traditional rivals are again fighting for second place in the Southeastern Conference Western Division and the postseason plums that come with it - just like last year.

Murphy Holloway scored 26 points and pulled down nine rebounds today, helping Ole Miss beat Indiana 89-71 in a first-round game of the O'Rielly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off. Chris Warren added 16 points and Eniel Poynice had 10 points and seven assists for Ole Miss, which improved to 3-0. It was the first loss in three games for the Hoosiers.

BATON ROUGE - Ole Miss quarterback Jevan Snead nearly left the game Saturday during the Rebels' 42-17 win over Tennessee because he twisted his right ankle on a fourth-down sneak.

Terrico White scored 19 points as Mississippi placed four players in double figures to defeat Alabama State 90-53 on Monday night.

Dexter McCluster, scoring his fourth TD last Saturday against Tennessee, was a minor part of the offense when Ole Miss suffered early-season losses to South Carolina and Alabama.

Four nominees for the AT&T All-America Player of the Week award have been announced after the eleventh week of college football action, and AT&T* is relying on fans to determine who rules the gridiron.

All week, Tennessee's defensive players worked on locating Ole Miss' speedster Dexter McCluster when the Rebels broke the huddle.

2 Texas beat Baylor 47-14. McCoy matched the wins record set by former Georgia quarterback David Greene.

Bowl representatives will be in attendance Saturday when Tennessee travels to Mississippi with both teams on the verge of clinching postseason eligibility.

DeAundre Cranston led all scorers with 21 points, as the Ole Miss Rebels coasted past the Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans, 92-64, in non-league play at Tad Smith Coliseum.

Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt is typically cautious when discussing Ed Orgeron, but he's never hesitated to heap praise on the predecessor who left him one of college football's best front fours.

Tennessee assistant Ed Orgeron is always a little more intense than any of his players or fellow coaches.

Senior defensive end Greg Hardy has a broken wrist and is likely out for the rest of the season, according to Ole Miss coach Houston Nutt.

Tennessee will disguise and mix up its coverage. It might even shade a safety toward a dynamic wide receiver.

Ole Miss' Greg Hardy, seen here celebrating a tackle in 2008, is done for the year with a fractured wrist.

This past summer when Ole Miss football coach Houston Nutt was in Atlanta filming the movie "The Blind Side," the story of former Rebels' offensive tackle Michael Oher, he found himself on the set locked in a room with fellow coaches-turned-actors. In the transient world of SEC job security, all the coaches were portraying themselves in previous ...