Top ten Tennessee either came in over-confident or Ole Miss played its most motivated basketball of the season as the Rebels fell 63-59 to the Volunteers on Wednesday.
Ole Miss (8-5, 0-1 SEC) led at halftime by six points, but its offense stalled and scored only 14 points in the first 13:30 of the second half as Tennessee came back to build a small lead. Jaemyn Brakefield stepped up offensively early scoring 18 points on perfect shooting behind the arc, but later in the game, the Rebels seemed to push the offense through a struggling Matthew Murrell (5 points, 1-11 FG).