When you open the Ole Miss basketball ledger (which is actually a Trapper Keeper with loose sheets of paper inside), it’s not until you turn over a few hundred pages that you find a record of the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance. In fact, you’ll come across only nine seasons in which Ole Miss made the Dance.
Still, the program has managed to pack the full spectrum of human emotion into that small sample size. Wins and losses in the final seconds, flirtations with huge upsets, come-from-behind wins and blowout losses are all part of the 17 lifetimes Rebel fans have lived in 13 total tournament games.