Ole Miss basketball fans were hoping to see the Rebels play a good game this past Wednesday night in the consolation game of the MGM Resorts International Main Event. The 4-1 Rebels were coming off a devastating loss to the Utah Runnin’ Utes. Wednesday night of the Vegas tourney the Rebels found themselves taking on the 1-4 Rice Owls. Rice was coming off a blowout loss to UNLV.
Of course, the Rebels wasted no time establishing their game plan against the Owls and jumped out to an early lead. Even though they did trail at one point in the first half, they managed a comeback.