Where does Ole Miss Basketball rank? Rebels take light dip in AP Top 25

Ole Miss Rebels shared their action at SJB Pavilion in Oxford last week and took down Texas Longhorns on Wednesday before dropping a hard fought game against No. 1 Auburn Tigers on Saturday. As a result, the rebels took a small step back in Monday’s AP Top 25.

Ole Miss (16-6, 5-4 sec) entered last week as the No. 23 team in the country, but it will meet this week’s action with a ranking of No. 25 next to his name, right on the edge of the locations.

The rebels are one of nine teams from the Southeastern Conference to cut this week and you can see the full rankings below with SEC teams specified in bold.

1. Auburn Tigers

2. Duke Blue Devils

3. Alabama Crimson Tide

4. Tennessee Volunteers

5. Houston Cougars

6. Florida Gators

7. Purdue Boilermakers

8. Iowa State Cyclones

9. Michigan State Spartans

10. Texas A&M AGGIES

11. Marquette Golden Eagles

12. St. John’s Red Storm

13. Texas Tech Red Raiders

14. Kentucky Wildcats

15. Missouri Tigers

16. Kansas Jayhawks

17. Memphis Tigers

18. Maryland Terrapins

19. Uconn Huskies

20. Arizona Wildcats

21. Wisconsin badgers

22. Mississippi State Bulldogs

23. Illinois fights for Illini

24. Michigan Wolverines

25. Ole Miss Rebels

Other SEC teams that receive votes: Vanderbilt (4), Texas (1), Oklahoma (1)

The good news for the rebels is that they have plenty of opportunities to improve their placement in the polls in the coming weeks beginning Tuesday night as they host No. 14 Kentucky Wildcats in Oxford. Ole Miss then travels to LSU on Saturday before hitting the road to South Carolina on February 12.

After the loss to Auburn over the weekend, Rebels head coach Chris Beard stated that despite the final result, his team’s performance against Tigers “validated their status as a top-25 team.

“I think it validates that we are a top-25 program,” said head coach Chris Beard in an interview Postgame. “This was the second time that Auburn and Ole Miss have played in all these years that both teams were ranked.

“We will continue to try to build our program where we are in the position we were today where we are more than competitive.”

Tip-off between Ole Miss and Kentucky Tuesday night is set to at 1 p.m. 18 ct on ESPN.

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