The University of Mississippi Athletics
Ole Miss
13-8
Kansas State
13-8
Ole Miss Falls On The Road At Kansas State
1/30/2016 | Men's Basketball
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - Senior Anthony Perez scored 13 points and Stefan Moody added 10 points for the Rebels, but Ole Miss dropped its Big 12/SEC Challenge game 69-64 at Kansas State Saturday.
Kansas State (13-8, 2-6) opened the game with a 16-8 lead on the heels of a 9-0 run before losing starting point guard Kamau Stokes to a non-contact knee injury. Stokes was examined on the sidelines briefly before being taken to the locker room on a wheelchair.
Ole Miss recovered swiftly and took its biggest lead of the first half, 24-19, with 6:30 left. Moody, who was held scoreless for the first seven minutes, hit consecutive 3-pointers and finished the first half with a team-high 10 points. However, it was the Wildcats and backup guard Carlbe Ervin who went into the locker room at halftime with the lead. Ervin scored five points in a three-minute stretch to give the home team a 38-36 advantage at the break.
A 17-point swing in favor of the Wildcats, spanning six minutes, helped give the home team a 63-45 lead with 7:48 remaining. D. J. Johnson led the stretch with eight points, but it was Barry Brown who bookended it. Brown missed the second of two free-throw attempts following a foul with 8:49 left, but grabbed his own rebound and then sunk a 3-pointer from the corner.
Ole Miss (13-8, 3-5) was 2 of 14 from the field during the Wildcats' spurt, including a near four-minute scoring drought. Rebels star Stefan Moody entered leading the SEC in scoring averaging 24.3 points, including 14-straight games with 20-plus points. But after his 10-point first half, Moody was held scoreless in the final period.
