The University of Mississippi Athletics
Rebel Basketball Inks Solomon Bozeman in Early Signing Period
11/9/2005 | Men's Basketball
Nov. 9, 2005
OXFORD, Miss. - The Ole Miss Rebel basketball team picked up its first signee of the early signing period Wednesday, receiving a national letter of intent from Solomon Bozeman, a 6-foot-1, 165-pound guard. Bozeman will attend Ole Miss beginning in the 2006-07 academic year.
The son of former Rebel assistant coach Eric Bozeman, Solomon was the Oxford Eagle Player of the Year in 2005, when he scored 25.1 points per game as a junior at Oxford High School. Bozeman also averaged 6.6 assists, 4.9 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game while shooting 53 percent from the field and 39 percent from three-point range. He was named to the Bob Gibbon's All-Tournament Team each of the last two years and earned District MVP honors a year ago.
"I'm excited to have Solomon Bozeman coming here," said Rebel head coach Rod Barnes. "I've known him since he was probably five years old. He grew up around the game and knows what it takes to compete at this level. Because of his father, he already understands what we're doing on offense and defense. I look forward to coaching him."
Bozeman will finish his prep career this season at Magnolia High School in Magnolia, Ark., where his father is the head coach at Southern Arkansas. Eric Bozeman accepted the head position at SAU in May after seven years on Barnes' Ole Miss staff.
