The Rebs, who are crawling and scratching for a national seed, lost to a team ranked 145 in the RPI. Here's why that doesn't really matter.
On the surface, Ole Miss' 8-6 loss to Arkansas State on Tuesday night appears to be a crippling late-season stumble for a team desperate to improve its postseason resume. The Rebs are in a dog fight with South Carolina to earn the last of the top eight national seeds (a designation that would allow them to host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tourney), and a hiccup during the last midweek game of the year against a sub-.