If you’re looking to pull off a road upset in conference play, the basketball wizards would advise you to not spend the first half of the game turning the ball over, getting dominated on the boards, and giving up a quarter of a million points in the paint. Ole Miss, perhaps testing the science behind those principles, tried the opposite of that in the first 20 minutes on its way to a 74-53 loss. Ugly stuff.
As you might expect, committing nine turnovers, losing the rebound battle 20-13, and allowing 22 points near the basket in a half may buck conventional tactics, but it is a great way to be down 16 points.