JD Williams vs. Ole Miss 2018
Josh McCoy / Ole Miss Athletics
60
ULM ULM 3-4
83
Winner Ole Miss OM 5-2
ULM ULM
3-4
60
Final
83
Ole Miss OM
5-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
ULM ULM 31 29 60
Ole Miss OM 44 39 83

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

ULM Closes Out Five-Game Road Trip with 83-60 Loss at Ole Miss

OXFORD, Miss. – Breein Tyree led a well-balanced scoring attack with 20 points to lead Ole Miss to an 83-60 non-conference victory over ULM Saturday, Dec. 1 at The Pavilion. Tyree hit 8-of-15 field-goal attempts, including 4-of-9 three pointers, as the Rebels never trailed while remaining unbeaten at home (4-0) this season.
 
Ole Miss (5-2) jumped out to a 7-0 lead as Dominik Olejniczak converted a hook shot in the lane and Tyree followed with a pull-up jumper inside the top of the circle and connected on a 3-pointer from the right wing. Blake Hinson buried a 3 from the right wing as the Rebels moved out to a 14-5 lead with 16:01 left in the first half. ULM (3-4) cut its deficit to 14-9 as Tyree White scored on a layup and JD Williams hit a 15-foot jumper from the right baseline. Ole Miss answered with a 10-2 run and built a 13-point advantage at 24-11 on Hinson's trey from the left wing with 11:31 to play in the opening half. A 3-pointer from the left wing by Williams sparked an 8-2 spurt and the Warhawks pulled to within 29-22 on Michael Ertel's pull-up jumper from the left baseline with 8:01 on the clock. The Rebels outscored ULM, 7-1, over the last 2:18 and took a 44-31 lead to the locker room.
 
Ole Miss shot 63 percent (17-of-27) from the field in the first half, including 6-of-14 from 3-point range, and outrebounded ULM, 19-9. Hinson netted 14 first-half points, hitting 5-of-7 shots from the floor including 3-of-4 3-pointers.
 
Travis Munnings hit a 3-pointer out of the left corner and followed with a 17-foot jumper from the left wing as ULM managed to cut its deficit to 11 at 61-50 with 11:10 remaining in the second half, but the Warhawks failed to close the margin any further. Ole Miss took its largest lead at 25 points, 77-52, as Terence Davis rebounded his own missed shot.
 
For the game, the Rebels shot 52 percent (33-of-63) from the floor, including 11-of-29 3-pointers. Ole Miss recorded 25 assists on 33 made field goals and outmuscled the Warhawks on the backboards, 41-24. ULM hit just 38 percent (20-of-52) of its field-goal attempts, including 7-of-21 from behind the 3-point arc.
 
"We had a difficult choice to make heading into this Ole Miss game: either try to take away layups or 3s," ULM head coach Keith Richard said. "We chose to try to take away the layups in the first half; however, Ole Miss hit 6-of-14 3s. But the real story of the first half is that Ole Miss still got the ball inside and scored with its physical play and toughness. We also missed six or seven shots at the rim that we really needed to make to keep pace. We missed some running layups and some short mid-range shots. We really needed to make those shots because we needed the halftime score to be 44-40 or something of that nature. We ran good stuff on the offensive end of the floor, but we needed to put the ball in the basket at a higher percentage. We couldn't afford to be down double-digits at halftime.  
 
"I'm disappointed in how we competed on the boards for 40 minutes. At times, we lost our will to compete physically, so things snowballed on us a little bit. From a physical standpoint, we competed well at times but not nearly enough to give us a chance in this game. Give Ole Miss and Kermit Davis a lot of credit. He didn't recruit many of the players, most of them are Andy Kennedy's, but you can see Kermit's toughness spilling over to this team. Like his Middle Tennessee teams, Ole Miss played with physical toughness on both ends of the floor. And it's not just the frontline players, his guards are physical too."
 
Two other Rebels scored in double figures as Hinson finished with 17 points and Davis added 15.
 
Munnings paced ULM with 17 points while Williams contributed 12 points to go along with a career-high seven rebounds. Daishon Smith, who came into Saturday averaging 20.0 points per game, hit just 2-of-11 shots from the field and finished with a season-low nine points.
 
"Ole Miss really pushed out its defense and really tried to guard the 3-point line," Richard said. "That's why we needed to make some of those layups and mid-range shots in the first half. This was a good learning experience for both Daishon Smith and our entire team. When the defense is extended, you've got to figure out ways to score some inside the 3-point line.
 
"For the past month, we've played against teams that play different styles of basketball, and that's a good thing. Now, we get to go home for the next four games and focus on getting better as a basketball team. This is time self-evaluation. What have we done well over these first seven games? What do we need to improve upon? We have faced a wide assortment of packages over these first seven games. Tonight was a game of toughness, and we didn't win the toughness battle. Other games have presented other issues and challenges. These next 10 days will be important for us to regroup and see where we can improve moving forward."
 
After five consecutive road games, ULM returns to Fant-Ewing Coliseum on Tuesday, Dec. 11 to open a four-game homestand against Grambling State, with tipoff set for 7 p.m. It marks the Warhawks' second home game of the season and their first since Nov. 10.

 
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