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Ole Miss Women’s Basketball Drops SEC Contest To Gators
OXFORD, Miss. – Despite
a double-double from junior forward Tia Faleru, who lead the
Rebels with 21 points and 14 rebounds, the Ole Miss women’s basketball
team fell to Florida, 81-60 on Sunday (Feb. 2) at the Tad Smith
Coliseum.
Faleru, who’s 11 double-doubles, is the
most for an Ole Miss player since the 2011-12 season, recorded her
seventh game of 20 or more this season and her eighth career game with
her 21 points. Diara Moore was the other Rebel in double-figures with
13 points on the afternoon. Valencia McFarland had a team-best
five assists.
“We didn’t do very well offensively.
There were a lot of things that went wrong in today’s game,” said head
coach Matt Insell. “We didn’t get out in transition. They were sending
three back in transition to slow us down. Other teams have done that
too and didn’t slow us down, but it worked today.”
Trailing
by just two at the halftime break, Florida used a 27-9 run to open the
half to take a 20-point lead and never looked back.
Ole Miss
(10-13, 1-8 SEC) showed a little bit of an offensive spark with seven
minutes remaining in the game. With Florida holding a 20-point lead,
the Rebels used a 6-0 spurt highlighted by baskets from Moore and
Faleru to cut the lead to 14 points, 68-54, but that was as close as
the Ole Miss would get the remainder of the contest.
“We base
everything we do off energy and effort. We didn’t have either the
energy or the effort we need to be successful. That’s why the games
we’ve been in, we had high energy and effort. We’ll go back to practice
on Tuesday and figure out why we didn’t have that.”
Ole Miss
opened the game with a 7-0 run, punctuated by a triple from Valencia
McFarland which forced the visitors to call a timeout. Florida (16-6,
6-3 SEC) responded and took a one-point lead, 15-14 behind a 15-7 run.
The
Rebels went cold from the floor at that point with just two field goals
over a seven-minute span which gave Florida a chance to extend its lead
to nine points, 29-20, before the Rebels used an 11-2 run to close the
half and pull within one possession at the break.
The Gators
capitalized on Ole Miss miscues and scored 20 points off Ole Miss
giveaways while scoring 46 points in the paint. The Rebels also left
some points at the charity stripe, going 12-of-21 for the game.
Ole
Miss will stay at home for its next game, welcoming the 10th-ranked
Lady Vols to the Tad Smith Coliseum on Thursday (Feb. 6) for a
televised contest .The Rebels and Lady Vols will tipoff at 8 p.m. on
CSS. For ticket information, go to OleMissTix.com or call the Ole Miss
Ticket Office at 1-888-REB-TKTS (732-8587).
Rebel Sidelines
Valencia
McFarland extends her scoring streak to 10 consecutive games and her
consecutive games started streak to 100 games … Valencia McFarland was
held to single digits for the first time in the last six games.
McFarland has 79 career games in double figures … Tia Faleru’s
double-double is her 11th this season and leads the SEC … The Rebels
move to 0-1 in games played on Super Bowl Sunday in the Matt Insell era
… McFarland is 18 points away from her 1,500th career point, she will
become one of seven players in program history to reach the mark.
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