{"id":22280,"date":"2015-02-19T08:40:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=22280"},"modified":"2015-10-20T12:11:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T17:11:23","slug":"rebels-head-to-starkville-with-hopes-of-first-series-sweep-in-since-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/rebels-head-to-starkville-with-hopes-of-first-series-sweep-in-since-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebels head to Starkville with hopes of first series sweep since 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> will head to Starkville this evening in an attempt to do something the program hasn&#8217;t been able to accomplish in over a decade. Sweep the <strong>Bulldogs<\/strong> in basketball.\u00a0The <strong>Rebels<\/strong> last won in Starkville in 2009.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21539\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/143-143-IMG_6575.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21539 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/143-143-IMG_6575.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"143-143-IMG_6575\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/143-143-IMG_6575.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/143-143-IMG_6575.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/143-143-IMG_6575.jpg?w=692&amp;ssl=1 692w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ole Miss Head Coach Andy Kennedy and his Ole Miss Rebels will try to sweep Mississippi State for the first time since 1999.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ole Miss 17-8, 8-4 will look to pad its resume with another road victory tonight at 8 PM on ESPN2. Head Coach <strong>Andy Kennedy<\/strong> will be going for his 210th career win. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The RPI, or what the committee will use as a guiding factor when selecting at large teams for the <strong>NCAA tournament<\/strong> has the Rebels at No. 37. <\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They are 3-4 against the RPI top 50, including wins over No. 18<strong> Arkansas<\/strong>, No. 35<strong> Cincinnati<\/strong> and No. 44 <strong>Texas A&amp;M<\/strong>. MSU is ranked No. 178 coming into Saturday&#8217;s game.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For more stats and game notes click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/grfx.cstv.com\/photos\/schools\/ole\/sports\/m-baskbl\/auto_pdf\/2014-15\/release\/release_20150217aaa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Rebels vs. Dogs<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ole Miss will head to Starkville this evening in an attempt to do something the program hasn&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":21498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5465,1644,7067,5255,4612,1728],"class_list":["post-22280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ole-miss","tag-espn2","tag-mississippi-state","tag-ole-miss","tag-rpi","tag-sec-basketball","tag-starkville"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/100-100-IMG_6369.jpg?fit=692%2C462&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280","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\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}