The Ole Miss women’s basketball team fell to 5-5 on the season with a 70-53 loss to Southeast Missouri State on Saturday at The Pavilion in Oxford.
Valerie Nesbitt had 15 points to lead the Rebels. Deja Cage scored 13, and Jayla Alexander scored 11.
“I tried to figure out a way to keep a high-powered offensive team and a veteran team like Southeast Missouri at bay, and we struggled at that,” Ole Miss head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin said in a news release from the school. “I thought we had a lot of opportunities to get something going, but this group is still trying to figure out who they are and who they want to be as a team. Right now, we are really struggling any time we have any adversity. I thought Southeast Missouri was the better team.
“I thought there were some moments tonight where we did sit down and showed some grit, but we have to be able to put that together for longer stretches of time, and right now we are not doing that.”
Ole Miss will host Georgia Southern at 11 a.m. Monday at The Pavilion in Oxford.
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