OXFORD, Miss. — The No. 21 Ole Miss women’s basketball team plays UAlbany for the first time Wednesday, Nov. 11, at the SJB Pavilion in Oxford. Tipoff is set for 6 p.m., and the game will be shown on SEC Network+ and carried on the Ole Miss Radio Network.
The Rebels are 2-0 after a 72-51 win over North Alabama, a game in which Jada Richard scored 17 points with five assists and four steals. Preseason voters in the SEC, coaches and media alike, slotted Ole Miss seventh. Talaysia Cooper landed on the all-conference first team in the coaches’ vote and the second team in the media vote, and Richard earned second-team recognition from the coaches. Cooper also appears on preseason watch lists for two national player awards, the Ann Meyers Drysdale and the Naismith.
UAlbany arrives unbeaten, 3-0, with Kelly Morrone in her first year as head coach; who spent six seasons at Merrimack. The Great Danes last beat Mount St. Mary’s 77-57 on the road, and freshman Alexa Bujold posted 17 points and 11 assists in that game. Through three games Bujold has 49 points, good for 16.3 a night, plus about six rebounds per contest. UAlbany went 14-16 last season and lost to Vermont in the America East quarterfinals.
The coaches share a connection to Rhode Island. Ole Miss coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin, now in her ninth season with the Rebels, played at the school, while Morrone coached there earlier in her career.
Ole Miss has a perfect record, 6-0, against America East teams, though the most recent of those wins came against Maine on Dec. 28, 2005. This season’s roster includes 10 newcomers, nine of them transfers.
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