The Rebel hoopmen close out the 2016 regular season on the road at Rocky Top.
Ole Miss basketball concludes its 2015-16 regular season in Knoxville Saturday, home of a very good dog, irate smoked meat tube Butch Jones, and hapless Rick Barnes. And it's Rick Barnes' club that'll play host this weekend to a Rebel team that at 19-11 (9-8 SEC) has little-to-no chance of making this year's NCAA Tournament. Tennessee's situation is somehow worse.
It feels odd that Saturday's romp in Thompson-Boling Arena marks the first time these squads have met under Barnes' directorship, insofar as Volunteer basketball's airhorn levels of chicanery seem to resonate in every direction year after year.