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Let's talk about this matchup in greater detail.

Joining me now, my co-hosts on Sports Talk, Mississippi, one of the voices of college

basketball on the SEC network, and noted Scalawag.

Richard Cross is here with us.

Richard, this Ole Miss team, I mean, you bring in a coach like Chris Beard, you know they're going to be better than they were a season ago. The guy's a top-tier coach in college basketball. They bring in some talent. But nobody, even the most red and blue glasses wearing Ole Miss fan, couldn't have predicted they would be as good as they've been thus far this year. how much of that is just what Beard has brought to this program and how much of that is?

Now, they've got some talented players that maybe we don't talk enough about.

I think a combination of the two, I think the fact that they've been good in game-ending situations,

if you go back to the non-conference and you think about some of the close wins they

had early, sorry, my voice is still not all the way back.

I'm trying.

The hero fault.

You know, some of the close wins that they had in the non-conference, even at home where

they weren't playing particularly well, but they found ways to win. I think that points to coaching and being ready for tight late-game situations.

You know, in league play, they've been really good at home, but the win at Texas A&M on Saturday

night was huge. They were down what?

Maybe if not double digits, really close to it, 7, 8, 9 in the first half.

They closed the half on, I think, an 11-0 run.

They get the big shot from Morel right before halftime to actually take a lead into the locker room

after not playing particularly well, but kind of rebounding well enough to stay in it. And then they push that lead out to double digits

early in the second half. Texas A&M makes a run as you expect a team to do at home. They kind of

withstood that run, found themselves down six or seven, you know, in the last six, seven minutes

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