Friday, January 11, 2013

Ole Miss Morning Delivery

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by Jake Adams

Four star running back Kailo Moore is expected to announce his school choice and commitment at 10 a.m. today. Receiver Laquon Treadwell will announce his decision next Thursday. Both players are considered Ole Miss leans and if they both choose the Rebels one recruiting guru said their commitments would launch this recruiting class all the way up to No. 11, and that's before adding several other elite possibilities to the mix, like Robert Nkemdiche, who confirmed his official Ole Miss visit yesterday.  A Nkemdiche addition could put Ole Miss in the Top 5. It starts today with Moore, who Hugh Kellenberger writes could be the first domino to fall...

A Look at the Numbers
I thought the 92 points scored by Ole Miss at Tennessee Wednesday night were rare for a conference game, as was the 32-point performance by Marshall Henderson, but I didn't know specifics. Ole Miss basketball SID Daniel Snowden released those last night. Henderson's 32 points were the most by any SEC player in a conference game since Chris Warren scored 32 against South Carolina in 2011. The 92 points were the most scored by Ole Miss in a conference game since 2009 in an overtime game against Arkansas, and the most points in regulation since scoring 105 against Alabama in 2001. So there you have it.

Here are the latest Ole Miss headlines:

Rick Cleveland: Scott Bittle Shifts Focus to Medicine.
Bittle threw one pitch so cruelly effective that it had its own name: The Thing. It looked like a fastball until it approached home plate and then it just kind of dropped to the earth. Hitters not only missed it, they often missed badly.
Football stats skyrocket under Freeze
(Wallace's) season totals landed him into rarified air among the all-time Ole Miss greats. He joined Eli Manning as the only Rebels to ever reach 3,000 total yards of offense (Wallace's total of 3,384 is second behind Manning's 2003 total of 3,572). He's behind only Eli in passing yards, attempts and completions in a season. And Wallace's eight rushing touchdowns? The most by a Rebel QB since another Manning, named Archie. 
Parrish Alford takes a look back at Freeze's first season