Ole Miss basketball is nearly whole again. Good thing. Games are coming quickly.
Talk of Champions
OMSpirit
4.7 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Kermit Davis is knocking on as much wood as he can find lately, ‘cause his Ole Miss men’s basketball team is as healthy as it’s been in a long, long time.
The timing couldn't be better, really. The Rebels are in their third week of preseason practices, and their season opener against Alcorn State is rapidly approaching November 7. They’ll hold a closed scrimmage Sunday with another Power 5 opponent before host West Georgia for an exhibition two weeks from Tuesday.
The overall health of the roster isn't all positive, but, first and foremost, star second-year point guard Daeshun Ruffin has been cleared for full contact. Same for true freshman guard Robert Cowherd.
First-year transfer Josh Mballa, formerly of Buffalo, is out after he “tweaked his hamstring again,” as Davis put it, but otherwise, Ole Miss is rounding into form.
“We’re going to have a Blue-White scrimmage, and (Daeshun will) go for like four minutes in that,” Davis said, adding Mballa is “out for about four or five days.
“He won’t scrimmage in our closed deal on Sunday. Hopefully by the next week we’ve got him back.”
Davis spoke extensively about the team's injury situation, Square Jam, recruiting and more in an interview with the Ole Miss Spirit's Talk of Champions podcast.
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| 0:44.2 | You're listening to Talk of Champions |
| 0:47.0 | and Ole Miss Spirit podcast with Ben Garrett. |
| 0:50.4 | It's not. |
| 0:51.1 | It's that. It's not. It's not. |
| 1:09.2 | You're not. It's that. It's hard. It's not. It's out. It's talk of champions. I've been at here. I've been on Twitter. He's Carmen Davis. |
| 1:11.9 | Old businessman's basketball coach. |
| 1:13.4 | Hey, buddy? |
| 1:14.5 | What's going on, Ben? |
| 1:15.9 | Garing up. |
| 1:16.7 | After Square Jam, it seems like season gets right on top of you. |
| 1:21.1 | And kind of a better place. |
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