No. 24 Ole Miss opens Beard's second season armed with Murrell and only second preseason ranking

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No. 24 Ole Miss opens Beard's second season armed with Murrell and only second preseason ranking
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Mississippi opens Chris Beard's second season with only the program's second preseason rankings. The 24th-ranked Rebels had only started one previous season in the AP Top 25 and that was in 1997. Led by high-scoring guard Matthew Murrell, Ole Miss is trying to make the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2019.

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Jaylen Murray . His 72 3s ranked second on the team. Finished the regular season ranked fourth in the SEC with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.40 Jaemyn Brakefield . Has started the past three years since transferring following one season at Duke, where he was a highly rated recruit.Ole Miss’s biggest loss was No. 2 scorer Allen Flanigan . Beard’s most notable import in a strong transfer class was two-year Virginia Tech starter Sean Pedulla. Pedulla averaged 16.4 points last season and ranked third in the ACC with 148 assists. He has made 154 career 3-pointers. Four other players who averaged at least 13.

Opens against Long Island on Nov. 4. The Rebels have nonconference games against BYU and at Louisville and Memphis .The Rebels lead the SEC and rank fourth among Power Four teams in returning minutes per game, having a roster that includes 10 seniors and five players with 1,000 career points. Beard received a new contract in March after a season when the Rebels won their first 13 games. They ended losing six of their last seven.

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