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Women's Basketball Preseason Notebook (Oct. 31)
10/31/2014 | Women's Basketball
Countdown to Tipoff!
The Rebels open the 2014-15 season on Nov. 14 vs. Grambling in the 12th annual Kids Day game. The Rebels and Tigers will tipoff at 11 a.m. at the Tad Smith Coliseum.
Happy Halloween From Ole Miss Women's Basketball
In honor of Halloween check out this Addam's Family video Ole Miss women's basketball style.
From the Rebels …
With just two weeks until the season-opener against Grambling, Erika Sisk and Danielle McCray talk about how practices are going and what they're looking forward to during 2014-15 season.
Senior Forward - Danielle McCray
Sophomore Guard - Erika Sisk
Ole Miss to Formally Name Tuohy Basketball Center this Weekend
Thanks to the extraordinary contributions of Sean Tuohy and his family to the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation's Forward Together campaign, Ole Miss Athletics has renamed the Basketball Practice Facility the Tuohy Basketball Center and will formally rename the facility on Saturday, Nov. 1 at 10 am. Read all about the renaming HERE.
Basketball Practice Facility Renamed Tuohy Basketball Center
Thanks to the extraordinary contributions of Sean Tuohy and his family to the Ole Miss Athletics Foundation's Forward Together campaign, Ole Miss Athletics has renamed the Basketball Practice Facility the Tuohy Basketball Center. Read all about the renaming HERE. There will be a formal dedication of the building on Nov. 1 at 10 a.m. prior to the Ole Miss vs. Auburn football game.
More From #SECTipoff15
Not only did Ole Miss head coach Matt Insell take part in the Coaches Clicker while at the SEC Network studios in Charlotte for SEC Tipoff '15, players Tia Faleru and Danielle McCray participated in an on court demonstration with ESPN's Carolyn Peck and Kara Lawson. Check it out below:
ICYMI: Check out Coach Insell's breakdown on the Coaches Clicker
New Kids on the Block
Ole Miss women's basketball fans will see plenty of new faces this season as the Rebels welcomed eight new faces to the squad including six freshmen! Erika Sisk and Precious Person both have collegiate experience as both transferred to Ole Miss. Sisk spent her freshman year in 2012-13 at Murray State where she won OVC Freshman of the Year an OVC record nine times and was OVC Freshman of the Year. She sat out last season and is eligible to play this year. Person, spent two years at Rutgers playing for legendary C.Vivian Stringer and will sit out this season as NCAA tranfer rules mandate. Joining the pair are six talented rookies. Kirara Golden, A'Queen Hayes, Kelsey Briggs, Sarah Porter, Shandricka Sessom and Toree Thompson will all be donning the Ole Miss navy and red for the first time this season. In Golden, Hayes and Sessom the Rebels get Mississippi natives while Briggs hails from Memphis, Tennessee. Porter and Thompson come to Oxford from San Diego, California and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, respectively.
From the Ole Miss WBB Video Crew
The Ole Miss women's basketball has been hard at work this preseason and so has the Ole Miss video crew. Check out their latest video piece on the Rebel Basketball team:
Get To Know Ole Miss Women's Basketball: Favorite Halloween Costume
GET TO KNOW Ole Miss WBB: Favorite Halloween Costume from Ole Miss Rebels on Vimeo.
From Coach Insell … On The Junior
The Ole Miss women's basketball team has an interesting situation in the junior class as Gracie Frizzell will be the lone junior this season. Coach Insell has long regarded the Arkansas native as one of the top three-point shooters in the SEC and looks for her to take her defensive skills to the next level this season.
Gracie: "Gracie provides us with one of the best 3-pt shooters in the SEC and she has worked hard this summer to become a better defensive player, which will help her game become more complete."
Western Kentucky Game Added to TV Schedule
It was announced this week that the Ole Miss-Western Kentucky game will be televised as apart of the C-USA TV package. The addition of the game gives Ole Miss 10 games televised on a linear network this season.
Ole Miss Great Peggie Gillom-Granderson Inducted Into Alumni Hall of Fame
For the second consecutive season the Ole Miss women's basketball team had a former player inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame as former player and associate head coach Peggie-Gillom Granderson was inducted on Friday, Oct. 17. Last season, former player and head coach Carol Ross was inducted.
Gillom-Granderson Into Alumni Hall of Fame
Welcome to the Family
This Ole Miss women's basketball family welcomed two new (and tiny) additions to the family this summer and early fall. Assistant coach Alex Simmons and her husband Christian welcomed daughter, Carsyn in August, while assistant coach Todd Schaefer and his wife Lisa welcomed son Jake in late September. Jake joins big brothers, Landon and Will. Welcome to the Rebel family!
10 Chances to See The Rebels on TV in 2014-15
With the launch of the SEC Network the Ole Miss women's basketball team will be on national television nine times in 2014-15, including a showdown on ESPNU with likely preseason top 5 selection, South Carolina, on Feb. 1 in Oxford. In total, Ole Miss will make five appearances on the SEC Network, three appearances on Fox Sports Net and on the ESPN family of networks. Additionally, Ole Miss will make 16 appearances on SECN+ the online streaming platform.
All of the games included in the ESPN package (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU) and the SEC Network will be available through WatchESPN, accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app, and streamed on televisions through Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 or Xbox One to fans who receive their video subscription from an affiliated provider. Fox Sports Net events will be available via these avenues outside the SEC Footprint only.
AT&T U-verse® TV, Bright House Networks, Charter, Comcast Xfinity TV, Cox Communications, DIRECTV, DISH, Google Fiber, LUS Fiber, PTC Communications, Suddenlink, Time Warner Cable, NCTC, NRTC, NTTC, Verizon FiOS and Wilkes Telephone will carry the SEC Network nationwide. Hundreds of additional live events from various sports will be offered exclusively as SEC Network+ events on WatchESPN and SECNetwork.com through AT&T U-verse, Charter, Comcast, Cox, DISH, Google Fiber, Suddenlink, NCTC, NRTC, NTTC and Verizon FiOS authentication.
Complete 2014-15 Women's Basketball Schedule
Season Tickets on Sale
If you haven't gotten your season tickets for the 2013-14 season, it's not too late. Season tickets are on sale and can be purchased for $50. For additional ticket information go to OleMissTix.com or call the Ole Miss Ticket Office at 1-888-REB-TKTS (732-8587). You can also order tickets online here!
SEC Tournament Tickets On Sale
Make sure you get your SEC Tournament tickets to support the Rebels! Tickets for the 2015 Southeastern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament are now on sale. The 2015 SEC Women's Tournament will be held at the Verizon Center in Little Rock, Arkansas on March 4-8, 2015. Tickets for the tournament are $100 for a reserved book. A ticket book contains seven tickets, one for each session, which allows one person to attend all 13 games. Tickets can be purchased here. Additional information regarding special ticket promotions, including advanced single session ticket sales, will be announced at a later date.
Follow Ole Miss Women's Basketball on The Web and Social Media
For all Ole Miss women's basketball news and information, go to OleMissSports.com, and follow the Rebels on Twitter at @OleMissWBB, Facebook at Ole Miss WBB and on Instagram at Ole Miss_WBB. Fans can also follow Ole Miss women's basketball head coach Matt Insell on Twitter at @minsell. The Ole Miss assistant coaches are also on Twitter. Assistant Coach Brittany Hudson @Coach_BH), Assistant Coach Alex Simmons (@APSimms2) and Assistant Coach Todd Schaefer (@OLEMISSCoach)
