The University of Mississippi Athletics
Thursday, February 6
Oxford, Miss.
6:30 PM
Ole Miss
vs
Oklahoma
Women’s Basketball Hosts No. 15 Oklahoma for NGWSD Game
2/5/2025 | Women's Basketball
OXFORD, Miss. – Ole Miss women's basketball will play host to one of the newest SEC foes in No. 15/16 Oklahoma at the SJB Pavilion on Thursday, Feb. 6, as the Rebels look for their second consecutive ranked win and seventh conference victory of the season. Tipoff between the Rebels and the Sooners is set for 6:30 p.m. CT, streaming on SEC Network+.
TEAM FACTS
RV/RV Ole Miss Rebels (15-6, 6-3 SEC)
Head Coach: Yolett McPhee-McCuin • 7th Season at Ole Miss (118-90) • 12th Season in Career (212-153)
No. 15/16 Oklahoma Sooners (16-6, 4-5 SEC)
Head Coach: Jennie Baranczyk • 4th Season at OU (90-32) • 13th Season in Career (282-128)
ON THE AIR
Television: SEC Network+
Play-by-Play: Jake Hromada
Color: Lindsay King
Reporter: Loral Winn
OLE MISS RADIO
Radio: Ole Miss Radio Network
Play-by-Play: Graham Doty
OLE MISS VS. OKLAHOMA
For the first time, Ole Miss and Oklahoma are set to share a basketball court as conference rivals, and only the sixth time ever. Despite that, the Rebels and Sooners have faced each other for the past two seasons. This is only the third time the Sooners have traveled to Oxford, the first time resulting in a 77-75 nail biter victory for the Rebels in 1999.
Oklahoma holds a 3-2 series lead, and have claimed each of the last two meetings. The Rebels had solid performances from both the starting lineups and the bench in the last matchup, with five players reaching double figures.
Ole Miss' most notable victory over Oklahoma came on March 25, 2007, when the Rebels escaped with a 90-82 showcase in the Sweet 16 of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Their win sent them to the Elite Eight for the fifth time in school history and first since 1992. The Sooners were coming off a Big 12 title, but were unable to overcome the Rebels, who thrived off the back of Ole Miss legend Armintie Price' 31-point double-double.
Ole Miss' 90 points is still a program record in the NCAA tournament, while Price' point total is the most by an individual in program tournament history. Price and the Rebels pickpocketed the Sooners all game, notching 16 total steals while Price tied the individual program tournament record with five on her own.
SCOUTING THE SOONERS
Oklahoma head coach Jennie Baranczyk is in her fourth year at the helm of the Sooner program. She's guided Oklahoma to a 16-6 record in its first season in the SEC, with a 4-5 conference record entering Thursday's matchup.
Oklahoma is one of the best rebounding and passing teams in the nation, averaging the third- and second-most, respectively, in those categories. Raegan Beers paces the team with 8.9 rebounds per game, good for ninth in the SEC, while Payton Verhulst is the team's primary pass distributor with 3.9 per game.
Beers, Verhulst and Sahara Williams form a formidable trio of 10.0 point-per-game players. Beers' ability to score and rebound have helped her to nine double-doubles on the year, including in OU's last game against Kentucky.
Verhulst is Oklahoma's most dynamic scorer, able to score in the paint and from beyond the arc. She scored a team-high 38 points against Missouri on 13 made field goals. She also recorded Oklahoma's only triple-double this season, going for 29, 10 and 10 against Duke.
Skylar Vann is one of the most prolific figures in Oklahoma women's basketball history. The fifth-year player has made a name for herself as one of the best sixth players in the country before making the transition into being a full-time starter in her senior season. She has the 10th most career points in the SEC (1,656) and the fifth-most career rebounds (854).
Oklahoma has one of the deepest rosters in NCAA women's basketball, as it averages the fifth-most bench rosters in the nation. The Sooners present 11 players who make consistent contributions to the team, all having made appearances in at least 20 games this season. Zya Vann and Liz Scott highlight this group of rotation players, each averaging at least 6.0 points, with Vann adding 40 assists on the season.
LAST TIME OUT
Ole Miss women's basketball earned its fifth-straight win over No. 23/23 Vanderbilt on Sunday afternoon, 76-61, at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tenn.
The Rebels relied on its frontcourt duo of Starr Jacobs and Madison Scott, who scored 24 and 16 points, respectively. Ole Miss held Vanderbilt to its second-fewest scoring performance of the year, which is only topped by the Rebel's first game against the team earlier this season.
For Ole Miss, it's the first ranked win since defeating No. 5 Stanford on March 19, 2023, and the first SEC ranked win since taking down No. 24 Arkansas on Jan. 29, 2023. It's head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin's 11th victory over a ranked opponent in her tenure in Oxford.
Jacobs shined for the Rebels, scoring 24 points and shooting 12-of-13 from the field against the Commodores. She recorded the 29th double-double of her career after hauling in 10 rebounds, splitting the offensive and defensive totals. It's her third time reaching double-double marks with Ole Miss this season.
THE SEC'S BEST
Madison Scott is the only player in the SEC to have collected over 1,000 points, 800 rebounds, and 100 blocks in her career. Amassing 1597 points, 977 rebounds and 124 blocks in her five-year tenure at Ole Miss, Scott has significantly surpassed those accomplishments, proving she's the best all-around player in the league.
WE AIN'T SCARED
Yolett McPhee-McCuin values the importance of playing top-tier opponents in nonconference play and it shows in the NCAA's NET Rankings.
Consistently sitting in the Top 15 in the NET Rankings, the Rebels recently came in at No. 11, tying the highest placement in program history. Ole Miss is the only team in the nation to have played at least three foes in the NET's top 6, matching up against No. 2 UConn, No. 3 Texas and No. 6 USC.
143 GAMES AND COUNTING...
One of the most acclaimed Rebels in program history has met another milestone marker, as Madison Scott has officially entered the top 2 in most games played at Ole Miss.
Competing in 143 games and counting in a Rebel jersey, the graduate student is just 2 games away from surpassing Peggie Gillom, who played in 144 games, for most at Ole Miss.
Along with Scott, Kennedy Todd-Williams has competed in 143 career games, seeing action in 54 games at Ole Miss and 89 with her past team, North Carolina.
MADI'S MAKIN' NOISE
Madison Scott has proven to be the cornerstone for Ole Miss in its last four games against Mississippi State, No. 7 Texas, Georgia and No. 23 Vanderbilt. Along with averaging 20.5 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 3.5 assists per game, Scott holds a 55.6% clip from the field and has made 21-of-23 free throws.
Playing a team-high average of 38.6 minutes in the last four contests, Scott has also been able to handle the ball well, only averaging 2.3 turnovers a game.
DOUBLE DOUBLE-DOUBLE TROUBLE
Notching three double-doubles this season against Boston College, Alabama and Vanderbilt, Starr Jacobs has earned 29 in her overall collegiate career and 20 as a Division I player.
In the matchup against Boston College, Jacobs headed the charge with her first double-double in a Rebel jersey, scoring 12 points and adding 11 rebounds. The graduate student paced the team versus Alabama by generating a season and Ole Miss career-high 21 points and 12 rebounds, to go alongside a trio of assists. Her most recent double-double against the Commodores proved to be her most impressive, as she notched 24 points, going 12-of-13 from the field, and 10 rebounds.
Madison Scott earned her first double-double of the 2024-25 season and the second by an Ole Miss player this season against MVSU. The fifth-year senior had 13 points and 10 rebounds against the Devilettes.
DOMINATING THE DORES
The Rebels have left no doubt that they can take down Vanderbilt, outscoring the Commodores by an average of 21.5 points in its two games this season.
In the two team's first matchup in Oxford, Ole Miss ran past Vanderbilt in a convincing 87-59 win, holding the Commodores' offense to their fewest points this season and 30 points below its average. In the second matchup in Nashville, Ole Miss held the 23rd-ranked Vanderbilt squad, who were coming off a four-game hot streak and two top 20 victories, to its second-fewest scoring performance of the year, which is only topped by the Rebel's first game against the team earlier this season.
STAY CONNECTED WITH THE REBELS
Single-game tickets for the 2024-25 Ole Miss basketball season are on sale now. To purchase or learn more about buying single-game tickets for women's basketball, click here or contact the Ole Miss Athletics ticket office.
Follow the Rebels on X at @OleMissWBB, Facebook at Ole Miss WBB and on Instagram at Ole MissWBB. You can also follow head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin on X at @YolettMcCuin.
TEAM FACTS
RV/RV Ole Miss Rebels (15-6, 6-3 SEC)
Head Coach: Yolett McPhee-McCuin • 7th Season at Ole Miss (118-90) • 12th Season in Career (212-153)
No. 15/16 Oklahoma Sooners (16-6, 4-5 SEC)
Head Coach: Jennie Baranczyk • 4th Season at OU (90-32) • 13th Season in Career (282-128)
ON THE AIR
Television: SEC Network+
Play-by-Play: Jake Hromada
Color: Lindsay King
Reporter: Loral Winn
OLE MISS RADIO
Radio: Ole Miss Radio Network
Play-by-Play: Graham Doty
OLE MISS VS. OKLAHOMA
For the first time, Ole Miss and Oklahoma are set to share a basketball court as conference rivals, and only the sixth time ever. Despite that, the Rebels and Sooners have faced each other for the past two seasons. This is only the third time the Sooners have traveled to Oxford, the first time resulting in a 77-75 nail biter victory for the Rebels in 1999.
Oklahoma holds a 3-2 series lead, and have claimed each of the last two meetings. The Rebels had solid performances from both the starting lineups and the bench in the last matchup, with five players reaching double figures.
Ole Miss' most notable victory over Oklahoma came on March 25, 2007, when the Rebels escaped with a 90-82 showcase in the Sweet 16 of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Their win sent them to the Elite Eight for the fifth time in school history and first since 1992. The Sooners were coming off a Big 12 title, but were unable to overcome the Rebels, who thrived off the back of Ole Miss legend Armintie Price' 31-point double-double.
Ole Miss' 90 points is still a program record in the NCAA tournament, while Price' point total is the most by an individual in program tournament history. Price and the Rebels pickpocketed the Sooners all game, notching 16 total steals while Price tied the individual program tournament record with five on her own.
SCOUTING THE SOONERS
Oklahoma head coach Jennie Baranczyk is in her fourth year at the helm of the Sooner program. She's guided Oklahoma to a 16-6 record in its first season in the SEC, with a 4-5 conference record entering Thursday's matchup.
Oklahoma is one of the best rebounding and passing teams in the nation, averaging the third- and second-most, respectively, in those categories. Raegan Beers paces the team with 8.9 rebounds per game, good for ninth in the SEC, while Payton Verhulst is the team's primary pass distributor with 3.9 per game.
Beers, Verhulst and Sahara Williams form a formidable trio of 10.0 point-per-game players. Beers' ability to score and rebound have helped her to nine double-doubles on the year, including in OU's last game against Kentucky.
Verhulst is Oklahoma's most dynamic scorer, able to score in the paint and from beyond the arc. She scored a team-high 38 points against Missouri on 13 made field goals. She also recorded Oklahoma's only triple-double this season, going for 29, 10 and 10 against Duke.
Skylar Vann is one of the most prolific figures in Oklahoma women's basketball history. The fifth-year player has made a name for herself as one of the best sixth players in the country before making the transition into being a full-time starter in her senior season. She has the 10th most career points in the SEC (1,656) and the fifth-most career rebounds (854).
Oklahoma has one of the deepest rosters in NCAA women's basketball, as it averages the fifth-most bench rosters in the nation. The Sooners present 11 players who make consistent contributions to the team, all having made appearances in at least 20 games this season. Zya Vann and Liz Scott highlight this group of rotation players, each averaging at least 6.0 points, with Vann adding 40 assists on the season.
LAST TIME OUT
Ole Miss women's basketball earned its fifth-straight win over No. 23/23 Vanderbilt on Sunday afternoon, 76-61, at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tenn.
The Rebels relied on its frontcourt duo of Starr Jacobs and Madison Scott, who scored 24 and 16 points, respectively. Ole Miss held Vanderbilt to its second-fewest scoring performance of the year, which is only topped by the Rebel's first game against the team earlier this season.
For Ole Miss, it's the first ranked win since defeating No. 5 Stanford on March 19, 2023, and the first SEC ranked win since taking down No. 24 Arkansas on Jan. 29, 2023. It's head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin's 11th victory over a ranked opponent in her tenure in Oxford.
Jacobs shined for the Rebels, scoring 24 points and shooting 12-of-13 from the field against the Commodores. She recorded the 29th double-double of her career after hauling in 10 rebounds, splitting the offensive and defensive totals. It's her third time reaching double-double marks with Ole Miss this season.
THE SEC'S BEST
Madison Scott is the only player in the SEC to have collected over 1,000 points, 800 rebounds, and 100 blocks in her career. Amassing 1597 points, 977 rebounds and 124 blocks in her five-year tenure at Ole Miss, Scott has significantly surpassed those accomplishments, proving she's the best all-around player in the league.
WE AIN'T SCARED
Yolett McPhee-McCuin values the importance of playing top-tier opponents in nonconference play and it shows in the NCAA's NET Rankings.
Consistently sitting in the Top 15 in the NET Rankings, the Rebels recently came in at No. 11, tying the highest placement in program history. Ole Miss is the only team in the nation to have played at least three foes in the NET's top 6, matching up against No. 2 UConn, No. 3 Texas and No. 6 USC.
143 GAMES AND COUNTING...
One of the most acclaimed Rebels in program history has met another milestone marker, as Madison Scott has officially entered the top 2 in most games played at Ole Miss.
Competing in 143 games and counting in a Rebel jersey, the graduate student is just 2 games away from surpassing Peggie Gillom, who played in 144 games, for most at Ole Miss.
Along with Scott, Kennedy Todd-Williams has competed in 143 career games, seeing action in 54 games at Ole Miss and 89 with her past team, North Carolina.
MADI'S MAKIN' NOISE
Madison Scott has proven to be the cornerstone for Ole Miss in its last four games against Mississippi State, No. 7 Texas, Georgia and No. 23 Vanderbilt. Along with averaging 20.5 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 3.5 assists per game, Scott holds a 55.6% clip from the field and has made 21-of-23 free throws.
Playing a team-high average of 38.6 minutes in the last four contests, Scott has also been able to handle the ball well, only averaging 2.3 turnovers a game.
DOUBLE DOUBLE-DOUBLE TROUBLE
Notching three double-doubles this season against Boston College, Alabama and Vanderbilt, Starr Jacobs has earned 29 in her overall collegiate career and 20 as a Division I player.
In the matchup against Boston College, Jacobs headed the charge with her first double-double in a Rebel jersey, scoring 12 points and adding 11 rebounds. The graduate student paced the team versus Alabama by generating a season and Ole Miss career-high 21 points and 12 rebounds, to go alongside a trio of assists. Her most recent double-double against the Commodores proved to be her most impressive, as she notched 24 points, going 12-of-13 from the field, and 10 rebounds.
Madison Scott earned her first double-double of the 2024-25 season and the second by an Ole Miss player this season against MVSU. The fifth-year senior had 13 points and 10 rebounds against the Devilettes.
DOMINATING THE DORES
The Rebels have left no doubt that they can take down Vanderbilt, outscoring the Commodores by an average of 21.5 points in its two games this season.
In the two team's first matchup in Oxford, Ole Miss ran past Vanderbilt in a convincing 87-59 win, holding the Commodores' offense to their fewest points this season and 30 points below its average. In the second matchup in Nashville, Ole Miss held the 23rd-ranked Vanderbilt squad, who were coming off a four-game hot streak and two top 20 victories, to its second-fewest scoring performance of the year, which is only topped by the Rebel's first game against the team earlier this season.
STAY CONNECTED WITH THE REBELS
Single-game tickets for the 2024-25 Ole Miss basketball season are on sale now. To purchase or learn more about buying single-game tickets for women's basketball, click here or contact the Ole Miss Athletics ticket office.
Follow the Rebels on X at @OleMissWBB, Facebook at Ole Miss WBB and on Instagram at Ole MissWBB. You can also follow head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin on X at @YolettMcCuin.
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