For three days a week, 52 weeks a year, for 36 years, Oxford High School head men’s basketball coach Drew Tyler has laced up his shoes and walked through the doors of every Ole Miss gym to play pickup basketball.
“We would sneak into the old gym and play, and (the University Police Department) would kick us out, and then we would get into (the Tad Smith Coliseum.) They’d kick us out. We’d go to the education building that is now where the Ole Miss Band music department is, and we’d get in that gym. They’d kick us out,” Tyler said.