Basketball - a wonderful, terrible sport - entered into the minds of the Ole Miss faithful singing its siren song in January.
A 3-0 start to conference play including wins over top 25 Auburn and Mississippi State had the Rebels and first year coach Kermit Davis being championed as the surprise team of the season.
Reality has an unfortunate way of crashing these kinds of parties however.
Ole Miss has lost five of its last six games posting a 14-7 (4-4 SEC) record with 10 games left to play. Hope is not hanging by a thread just yet, because before Saturday’s home loss to MSU, the Rebels had a 9-seed in the latest ESPN Bracketology.