{"id":19592,"date":"2014-12-05T17:26:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T23:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=19592"},"modified":"2015-10-28T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:19:57","slug":"ole-miss-basketball-woes-continue-at-home-in-the-tad-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-basketball-woes-continue-at-home-in-the-tad-pad\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Basketball Woes Continue at Home in the Tad Pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">by Taylor Rayburn<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">University, Miss. (TLV) \u2013 The <strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> fan base is not the only one who is ready for the new basketball arena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After winning the <strong>Emerald Coast<\/strong> tournament last week, with big wins against No. 23 <strong>Creighton<\/strong> and <strong>Cincinnati<\/strong>, the <strong>Rebels<\/strong> laid an egg at home against <strong>Texas Christian University\u2019s Horned Frongs<\/strong> (TCU) in the <strong>Tad Pad<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Rebels were lead by <strong>Stefan Moody<\/strong> who had 12 points. Ole Miss is now 5-2 on the season and just 2-2 at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19595\" style=\"width: 692px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0064-adj-692.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19595 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0064-adj-692.jpg?resize=640%2C960\" alt=\"IMG_0064-adj-692\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0064-adj-692.jpg?w=692&amp;ssl=1 692w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0064-adj-692.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0064-adj-692.jpg?resize=682%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ole Miss Head Coach Andy Kennedy is not happy with his team&#8217;s play so far this season at home in the Tad Pad. Photograph by Newt Rayburn &#8211; \u00a9 2014 The Local Voice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The first half was competitive and fairly defensive as TCU only had a 3 point lead at the break. However, in the second half the floodgates opened as Horned Frogs jumped out and lead as much as 19 points, and had scored as many points in ten minutes as they did in the entire first half.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">About some of Ole Miss\u2019 defensive problems, Ole Miss Coach <strong>Andy Kennedy<\/strong> said, \u201cWe were going small to get spread and to make some shots and then got killed on the defensive glass.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">TCU registered only four offensive rebounds in the first half compared to Ole Miss\u2019s nine. However in the second half, the Horned Frogs roared back and out-rebounded the Rebels on offense 15-12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Rebels have really struggled in the Tad Pad this season. Kennedy was confused of how poorly the Rebels have played at home compared to the road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI don\u2019t know what we are shooting in this building,\u201d Kennedy said, \u201cbut every time you (the media) have seen us we are just flat, have no rhythm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Rebels are shooting a very poor 36% from the field at home, compared to shooting 50% on the road. In both their home losses they shot below 30% from the field and we out-rebounded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Kennedy played a lot of players against TCU, but no Rebel played more than 30 minutes and only one played less than ten minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u201cI am playing a bunch of guys a bunch of minutes because I\u2019m just looking for some consistency,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cSomebody that wants to play, somebody that wants to earn minutes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Rebels have had little rhythm on offense and they only had 7 total assist against TCU and only Moody scored more than ten points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Rebels hope to bounce back next week when they leave the Tad Pad and travel to <strong>Eugene, Oregon<\/strong> to play the <strong>Oregon Ducks<\/strong>, who are 5-2 on the season with all five wins coming at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The game will be at <strong>3:00 pm<\/strong> central standard time on <strong>Sunday, December 7th<\/strong> and be on Fox Sports 1.\u00a0<em><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\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Taylor Rayburn University, Miss. 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