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00:00 All right, Ole Miss is at Mississippi State playing in Starkville tonight.
00:05 And it would be really cool if Ole Miss could pull out the win here and
00:09 give David Holley a 65th birthday present in Starkville, in the basketball egg ball.
00:16 This is going to be a massive, massive basketball game for
00:20 Mississippi State and honestly for Ole Miss.
00:22 This is a big game and basketball games in Mississippi
00:26 traditionally have not been to this level.
00:30 It is really kind of cool to have two good basketball programs in the state of
00:34 Mississippi.
00:35 And Ole Miss and State had a little bit of a war in the first game of
00:43 the series this year.
00:44 Now it goes down to Starkville, where traditionally Ole Miss doesn't win in
00:48 Starkville, just like Mississippi State traditionally doesn't win in Oxford.
00:53 So we'll see how it looks.
00:55 Now, if you look at Ole Miss's basketball season, like I said,
00:59 Ole Miss needs to go four and two over their last six games.
01:02 That includes at Mississippi State, that includes playing Alabama,
01:08 that includes playing at Georgia and at Missouri.
01:11 That includes home games against South Carolina and Texas A&M.
01:17 So the schedule, while it's doable, it's going to be difficult.
01:24 Just automatically assume that all these games is difficult.
01:28 Nobody's thinking it's a cakewalk, but
01:30 Ole Miss can win four out of six of these games.
01:33 And it could start tonight.
01:35 If Ole Miss can figure out a way to get a victory on the road in Starkville,
01:39 it will be a major, major accomplishment.
01:42 Because then at that point,
01:43 Ole Miss just has to go three and two for the remainder of their games.
01:48 And you've got a little bit of margin for
01:50 error because the Alabama game at home is going to be tough.
01:53 It just is.
01:54 Alabama's a genuinely good basketball team.
01:57 If you can get through this one,
02:00 this is your probable second toughest game left on your schedule.
02:05 If you can figure out a way to get it, figure out a way to win that game,
02:10 three and two the rest of your game.
02:12 With South Carolina, a game that you can win at home, but
02:14 South Carolina can rise up and pop you as well.
02:17 You have that Alabama game.
02:20 You have Texas A&M who can be good, who can be meh, who can be bad,
02:24 because they did get beat by Vanderbilt, but they beat Tennessee.
02:28 So it could go one way or the other.
02:30 Georgia just feels like they're a little bit out of gas.
02:33 And then at Missouri, we saw the Missouri game just Saturday.
02:38 That can get squirrely as well.
02:40 But Ole Miss going four and two, it can absolutely happen.
02:43 They have the talent to get it done.
02:46 It sure would get a whole lot easier if Ole Miss would win the game tonight.