National Basketball Association
Mississippi 69, Texas A&M 59
When: 7:00 PM ET, Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Where: C.M. 'Tad' Smith Coliseum, Oxford, Mississippi
Officials:
# Lee Cassell, # Doug Shows, # Ted Valentine
Attendance:
7739
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Ole Miss 69, Texas A&M 59: Stefan Moody had 19
points as the Rebels cooled off the visiting Aggies in a battle of SEC
upper-division teams.
M.J. Rhett added 11 points for Ole Miss (15-7, 6-3 SEC),
which won for the fifth time in its last six games. The Rebels, who also
received five assists from Moody and nine points and a team-high nine rebounds
from Sebastian Saiz, took the lead for good with a 13-1 run spanning the two
halves and overcame a combined 10 points on 3-of-19 shooting from Jarvis
Summers and LaDarius White, their second- and third-leading scorers.
Alex Caruso and reserve Tavario Miller scored 13
apiece to pace Texas A&M (15-6, 6-3), which saw its six-game win streak end.
Kourtney Roberson added 12 points and Jalen Jones had eight points and 11
rebounds for the Aggies, who shot 4-of-19 from 3-point range, 11-of-20 from the
free-throw line and had 16 turnovers.
Ole Miss, which led 33-32 at intermission,
started the second half on a roll, scoring the first seven points and stretching its lead to 50-38 after Moody hit a short floater in the lane
with 13:37 to play. The Rebels, though, went the next five minutes without a
field goal as the Aggies cut the lead to 53-50, but White hit a 3-pointer and
Rhett followed with a three-point play to put the hosts ahead 59-50 with 6:26
to play and Texas A&M never got closer than six points the rest of
the way.
The game got off to a slow start, with the teams
combining to miss their first 16 3-point attempts. Texas A&M did pull ahead
31-27 with 1:47 left in the half following back-to-back treys from Danuel House
and Peyton Allen, but Ole Miss closed with a 6-1 run to take the
one-point edge into the break.
GAME NOTEBOOK: House, Texas A&M’s leading
scorer and the reigning SEC Player of the Week, finished 2-of-11 from the
field, including 2-of-8 from long range, and scored six points after hitting
12-of-18 from the field and 8-of-11 from the arc in scoring 35 combined points in two
games last week. … Ole Miss, which entered the game having hit 212 of its previous
254 free-throw attempts, finished 15-of-20 at the line. … The Rebels had 11
steals, their second-highest total of the season.
Top Game Performances
Texas A&M |
|
Mississippi |
Alex Caruso 13 |
Scoring |
Stefan Moody 19 |
Alex Caruso 5 |
Assists |
Stefan Moody 5 |
Jalen Jones 11 |
Rebounds |
Sebastian Saiz 9 |
Alex Caruso 6 |
Free Throws Made |
Stefan Moody 6 |
Alex Caruso 2 |
Steals |
Sebastian Saiz 4 |
Danuel House 1 |
Blocks |
Dwight Coleby 2 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
Texas A&M
|
59 |
38.6 |
4-19 |
11-20 |
14 |
36 |
2 |
5 |
16 |
Mississippi
|
69 |
38.7 |
6-24 |
15-20 |
14 |
36 |
6 |
11 |
8 |