Ole Miss Stuns Alabama at Home: Key Takeaways from Tuesday

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00:00Let's start off with the University of Alabama.

00:03They go down.

00:04Let's begin with them.

00:05Was that a surprise to you, seeing this last night?

00:08Oh, stunning, because it was a home game.

00:11Ole Miss is certainly a capable team.

00:13And if the game had been in Mississippi, at Oxford,

00:19no surprise, because a lot of significant SEC teams

00:24are going to win most of their home games.

00:25But Alabama coming off a terrific performance

00:29over the weekend against Texas A&M,

00:31it was a game more to their liking.

00:33But Ole Miss made it into a ground game kind of affair.

00:40And what they really did was a great defensive job

00:43on the backcourt.

00:44LeBaron Phylon and Mark Sears from Alabama

00:49combined, I believe, two of 16 from the field,

00:53one of seven from three.

00:55You're not going to beat very many teams in that league

00:57shooting the basketball like that.

00:59And Mark Sears is an All-America candidate.

01:02And Ole Miss completely shut him down.

01:04And I think Ole Miss maybe felt like everybody

01:07would want to play that up-and-down.

01:09Excuse me, Alabama felt everybody's going to want

01:11to play that up-and-down game.

01:12But Ole Miss cannot do that in this league.

01:15They have to grind it.

01:17And so you have to be prepared for that.

01:20And it didn't look like the Alabama players

01:23were mentally prepared for that style of game.