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Numbers Don’t Lie: Recap Women’s Basketball’s Outstanding 2024-25 Season

3/12/2025 | Women's Basketball

2024-25 Season Stats

OXFORD, Miss. – Ole Miss women’s basketball is coming off a historic year, finishing the regular season and SEC Tournament at 20-10 overall, including a 10-6 mark in conference play. 

For a program that is nationally known for dictating and disrupting on defense, Ole Miss put on a show on the opposite side of the court this season. Offensively, the Rebels are averaging 75.7 points per game, marking the most by an Ole Miss team in the Coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin era and the eighth most in program history.

The Rebels scored 90-plus points four times so far, with its highest-scoring outings against South Alabama and Florida. Ole Miss' 94 points in both games are the most by a Rebel team since Nov. 14, 2021, and is the third-most points scored under McPhee-McCuin. 94 points against the Gators also marks the most against an SEC opponent in the Coach Yo era, and the most by a Rebel team versus a conference foe since scoring 95 points against Arkansas on March 2, 2006.

McPhee-McCuin has assembled one of the most balanced teams in recent memory. Team 50 has entered the top 10 in several single season statistical rankings. 

Entering the NCAA Tournament, the Rebels have 509 assists, the eighth-most in program history. Team 50 is only the ninth team ever to go north of 500 and is the most by any Ole Miss team in the 21st century. The next closest is the 2006-07 squad, which dropped 493. On a per game basis, the Rebels’ 17.0 assists per game is the sixth best among all Rebel teams.

Defensively, Ole Miss averages 11.5 steals per game for 345 total this season. Both marks are top 10 among Ole Miss teams, with the average being the seventh highest and the total at No. 10.

In the paint, the Rebels have accrued the fifth-most blocks in a single season with 134. Like steals, Ole Miss’ blocks come in abundance, averaging 4.5 per game. That’s the third-highest average in program history. McPhee-McCuin has courted some of the most productive seasons in terms of blocks for the Rebels, with four of the top five most blocks in program history being coached by her.

On the offensive side of the ball, the Rebels have 2271 total points and have outscored their opponents by 524 points through 30 games. That’s the second-widest gap for all Ole Miss teams in its 50-year history.

Much of the points have come via forcing opponents into turnovers and limiting turnovers on their end. The Rebels have committed only 414 turnovers this year while having forced 633 by their opponents. All three of those marks are within the top 10 in Ole Miss history, with the third-fewest turnovers by the Rebels, forcing the ninth most giveaways from opponents and the second-best differential (219).

Similarly to the turnover differential, the Rebels have outshot their opponents by 199 field goals this season. That’s the fifth-widest gap in scoring by an Ole Miss team in program history, while holding opponents to the fifth fewest made field goals in a season with 641.

Conference play was a historic one for the Rebels, as Ole Miss earned 10 SEC wins for the fourth consecutive season. McPhee-McCuin is the only head coach in program history to achieve this feat. For the first time since Jan. 24, 2010, the Rebels’ toppled an AP top 10 ranked team on the road in its final game of the season against No. 7 LSU. Ole Miss last did so when it bested No. 8 Georgia, 66-65, in Athens. Ole Miss’ 85 points against LSU is the fifth-most in program history against an AP top 10 team in games that the Rebels’ won.

This win marked Ole Miss’ second win over an AP top 10 team this season, its other being against then-No. 8 Kentucky on Feb. 10. The last time a Rebel squad won multiple games against top 10 opponents came in the 2006-07 season, when that team beat three. Prior to this year, the last time a Rebel squad has defeated multiple top-10 conference foes was during the 1995-96 season, when Ole Miss took down No. 3 Tennessee and No. 5 Vanderbilt.

Ole Miss showed up and showed out in the nonconference slate of the 2024-25 season as well, earning three program records.

The Rebels allowed the fewest points in program history twice as it kept Arkansas-Pine Bluff and Alabama State to just 24 points each. McPhee-McCuin’s teams now hold the top three spots in the record books of the fewest points allowed in Ole Miss history. The Rebels are also the only squad in the SEC to force two opponents to sub-30 points.

Ole Miss' last win in November was a convincing one. By defeating Alabama State by 65 points at the SJB Pavilion, it marks the widest margin of victory in program history and the largest in the McPhee-McCuin era. It's the sixth instance of an Ole Miss team reaching the +60 mark and only the second time in history that the Rebels have achieved the feat twice in the same year. Previously, Ole Miss defeated Arkansas Pine-Bluff by 61 points in the Rebels' first victory this season. The last time an Ole Miss squad has secured two 60-point margins wins in a year was the 1982-83 season.

In its final game of the nonconference season, Ole Miss had its most efficient night of shooting in program history after going 67.3 percent from the field. Ole Miss’ previous best field goal percentage mark was 63.1 percent, which it accomplished in the 2004-05 season against New Orleans.

Additionally, the Rebels won all seven nonconference games at the SJB Pavilion, the third time Ole Miss has entered conference competition undefeated at home under Coach Yo. 

The Rebels are led by fifth-year two-way player Madison Scott, who earned her seventh conference award of her career, after being named to the All-SEC Second Team. Scott also recently won the Gillom Trophy, pacing the Rebels in scoring and assists with an average of 11.9 points and 3.8 dimes per game this season. She also officially became the most experienced player in Ole Miss history, competing in 151 contests and counting, the most games played by any Rebel.

Sira Thienou has wasted little time making her mark as an Ole Miss Rebel, as she was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team after earning conference weekly awards twice this season. Thienou leads the Rebels in pick pocketing balls, earning the most steals per game by any freshman in a power four conference, while also sitting fourth in the SEC and 29th in the nation with 2.53 steals a game. With 76 total steals this season, Thienou is on pace to break the program record for most steals by a freshman in a season. The Bamako, Mali, native just trails Alisa Scott (1983-84) who tallied 81 steals. 

In her seven years at the helm, Coach Yo has taken the program to new heights, as Ole Miss has found themselves among the best of the best in the conference. Including the two newest additions to the league, Ole Miss is one of only six teams in the SEC that is projected to advance to the NCAA Tournament each of the last four years, along with good company in LSU, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.

Sitting in the Top 15 in the NET Rankings since January 9, 2025, the Rebels recently came in at No. 12. Ole Miss also holds the third toughest strength of schedule among DI programs in the nation, facing eleven ranked opponents so far and five of the top 10 teams in the NET Rankings.

Ole Miss will now await its fate for the 2025 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, with Selection Sunday set for March 16 at 7:00 p.m. CT. The latest bracketology by ESPN had the Rebels hosting the first and second rounds as a No. 4 seed and sitting in the Spokane Region.

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