Ole Miss only beat Missouri by ten points on Saturday, but the game wasn’t even that close.
The Rebels’ suffocating 1-3-1 defense forced the young Tigers into 25 turnovers while Bruce Stevens and K.J. Buffen poured in a combined 31 points off the bench. With the 75-65 W in Oxford, Ole Miss has now reeled off four-straight SEC wins.
Before the game, I said that for the Tigers to win they would need to see good performances out of guards Jordan Geist, Javon Pickett and Jermiah Tilmon. Geist did his part offensively with 23 points on 16 shots but Pickett, a freshman, struggled to adapt to the complex defenses he saw.