{"id":154286,"date":"2025-12-18T12:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=154286"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:09:40","slug":"mens-basketball-cruises-past-alabama-am-for-second-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mens-basketball-cruises-past-alabama-am-for-second-straight-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Cruises Past Alabama A&amp;M for Second Straight Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TUPELO, Miss.\u00a0 \u2013 \u00a0Ole Miss<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/malik-dia\/5997\"><strong>Malik Dia<\/strong><\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0dropped a season-high 27 points to lead the <strong>Rebels <\/strong>to an 80-66 win against <strong>Alabama A&amp;M<\/strong> in <strong>Tupelo, Mississippi<\/strong> at <strong>Cadence Bank Arena<\/strong> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ole Miss (7-4) got off to a hot start offensively as the Rebels scored three straight three-pointers, getting out in front to a quick 9-3 lead. However, Alabama A&amp;M (6-5) wouldn&#8217;t be phased by the Rebels&#8217; start, as they stormed back to get within three, 20-17, after a made three by Kintavious Dozier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rebels would respond with a 10-0 run capped off by an&nbsp;<dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/ilias-kamardine\/6001\">Ilias Kamardine<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;floater to put Ole Miss back in control, 30-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ole Miss would continue its strong first-half offensive showing and ride the momentum into the halfway break up 44-29, led by Dia who scored a career high 17 first-half points<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second half, the Rebels continued to push their lead, getting up by as much as 22, 67-45, with 8:10 left to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visitors would manage to get back within 12, down 69-57 with under three minutes to go, however, the Rebels would outscore the Bulldogs 10-7 the rest of the way to secure the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ole Miss finished the game shooting 27-of-50, 54.0% from the field and 8-of-18, 44.4% from three-point range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NOTABLES<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ole Miss tallied 12 total assists in the first half, which is the most thus far this season for the Rebels in a single half. They finished with 19 which is tied for their most this season.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/aj-storr\/6000\">AJ Storr<\/a><\/dfn>\u00a0secured six rebounds against Alabama A&amp;M, which put him over 300 for his career.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ole Miss shot a season high 54.0% from the field.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/olemisssports.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/ilias-kamardine\/6001\">Ilias Kamardine<\/a><\/dfn>&nbsp;found teammates for eight total assists, which marked a season high, with just one turnover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUPELO, Miss.\u00a0 \u2013 \u00a0Ole Miss&#8216;s\u00a0Malik Dia\u00a0dropped a season-high 27 points to lead the Rebels to an 80-66 win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123462,"featured_media":154287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17687],"tags":[33364,33365,33363,7067,4,700,187,655],"class_list":["post-154286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","category-university-of-mississippi","tag-alabama-am","tag-cadence-bank-arena","tag-malik-dia","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-rebels","tag-tupelo","tag-university-of-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-17-RebelBasketball.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154289,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154286\/revisions\/154289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}