Ole Miss basketball isn’t a third of the way through its 2017 conference schedule and already serious lesions are beginning to surface on this club’s output to date. Deandre Burnett — the SEC’s current but temporary third-leading scorer — suffered a high ankle sprain against Georgia last Wednesday, essentially excising Andy Kennedy’s most potent scoring threat not named Sebastian Saiz. But the story is worse than that.
Setting aside the Kentucky shellacking, which was more or less expected, a trend has emerged in the last week or so that should worry Ole Miss hoops fans who were hoping for a possible NCAA Tournament berth this season.