Women’s Basketball Hosts Ole Miss for Power of Pink/Play4Kay Game

Thursday, February 11

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

6 p.m. CT

Alabama

Ole Miss

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Women’s Basketball Hosts Ole Miss for Power of Pink/Play4Kay Game

2/10/2021 9:22:00 AM | Women's Basketball

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Game is set to tip at 6 p.m. CT on SEC Network+

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – One of three remaining home games this season is up next for Alabama women's basketball as it hosts Ole Miss on Thursday. The game, which will serve as the Crimson Tide's Power of Pink/Play4Kay game for 2021, will tip at 6 p.m. CT in Coleman Coliseum.

FOLLOW ALONG

Thursday's game will air live on SEC Network+ with Eli Gold and Rick Moody on the call and can also be heard on the Crimson Tide Sports Network (WTBC-AM 1230 in Tuscaloosa) with Roger Hoover providing the play-by-play.

OPENING TIP

Alabama enters Thursday's game against Ole Miss at 12-5 overall and 5-5 in Southeastern Conference play.
The Crimson Tide is coming off three top-25 losses, with the most recent in overtime to No. 25 Georgia.
The Tide won five of its first seven SEC games for the first time since 1997-98 season.
Alabama currently ranks 32^nd in the NET with all five of its losses coming to teams ranked 23 or higher in the NET in No. 3 (South Carolina), No. 14 (Tennessee), No. 21 (Georgia) and No. 23 (Kentucky).
The Tide is one of seven SEC teams ranked in the top 35 of the NET.
Alabama's 75.3 point-per-game average is the highest average it has had in nearly two decades.
The Tide is No. 2 in the SEC in free throw percentage (75.3) and No. 2 in the league in nearly every three-point shooting category.
Alabama is led by its big three of Ariyah Copeland, Jordan Lewis and Jasmine Walker. Walker leads the way, averaging a double-double of 20.0 points and 10.0 rebounds, while Lewis adds 16.6 points, 4.5 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game and Copeland 14.0 points and 8.4 boards per outing.
Alabama has one of the top three-point shooters in the SEC and in the nation in Walker, who leads the league in three-pointers per game (3.12).
Walker is also the only player in the SEC to rank in the top five in the conference in both scoring and rebounding, in all games and in conference-only competition.
Walker was recently named a finalist for the 2021 Katrina McClain Award and to the Naismith Trophy Women's Midseason Team.
The Tide has the most experienced point guard in the SEC in Lewis, who has started every game she's played in since she arrived on campus in 2016 (119 games).
Lewis is also the SEC's active leader in assists (471) and is No. 4 in career steals (149), No. 5 in career points (1,404) and No. 12 in career rebounds (493).
Alabama is the only school to boast two of the top five scorers in SEC play with Lewis at No. 4 (18.6 ppg) and Walker at No. 5 (18.5 ppg).

SERIES NOTES

Alabama has won the last six games against Ole Miss in the series that dates back to 1977.
The Rebels dominated the early meetings before the Crimson Tide won 13 of 15 meetings from 1993-2004.
Ole Miss claimed the next eight, however Alabama owns an 11-3 advantage in games played since 2009.
The Tide has won the last five meetings in Tuscaloosa.
In 2020's lone matchup between Alabama and Ole Miss, the Tide overcame a seven-point, fourth-quarter deficit to win 57-56 in Oxford.

Last Five Meetings

Feb. 2, 2020	W	57-56	Oxford, Miss.
Feb. 28, 2019	W	46-43	Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Feb. 11, 2018	W	82-79	Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Jan. 22, 2017	W	65-57	Oxford, Miss.
Jan. 5, 2017	W	90-80	Tuscaloosa, Ala.

ABOUT OLE MISS

The Rebels snapped a five-game losing streak last time out with an upset over No. 14 Kentucky, 72-60.
With the win, Ole Miss moved to 8-7 overall and 2-7 against league opponents.
Shakira Austin, SEC Co-Player of the Week and Lisa Leslie Award Finalist, scored 21 points and hauled in 12 rebounds to lead the Rebels in the win over the Wildcats and averages a team-best 17.1 points, 8.1 rebounds, 1.6 steals and 1.5 blocks per game.
As a team, Ole Miss is averaging 73.7 points per game and 39.1 rebounds per contest.
The Rebels are under the direction of third-year head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin. She owns a 24-52 record in her tenure in Oxford and a 118-115 overall record in her eight seasons as a head coach.

LAST TIME OUT

For the fifth time in the last seven meetings, the women's basketball game between Alabama and Georgia was decided in overtime, with the matchup going in the 25th-ranked Lady Bulldogs' favor, 83-76.
Alabama had two players record double-doubles as Jasmine Walker finished with 24 points and 12 rebounds while Ariyah Copeland added 17 points and a game-high 14 boards.
Jordan Lewis dished out a game-best five assists to go along with her 10 points and six rebounds, and Destiny Rice had another big game off the bench with a career-high 12 points.
It was a game of runs with five lead changes and four ties with both teams' largest lead stopping at eight.
The Tide began the night on an 8-0 run before Georgia scored 11 of the next 13 to take its first lead of the contest.
UA led 18-15 at the end of the first following a layup from Walker with 27 seconds to go.
In the second, Alabama built up another eight-point advantage, however the Lady Bulldogs would counter and cut it down to one with 1:04 remaining.
A three from Hannah Barber closed out the first half scoring and gave the Tide a 35-31 lead after 20:00 of play.
Walker knocked down a three on Alabama's opening possession in the third, but eight unanswered by Georgia gave the Lady Bulldogs the lead at the 8:10 mark.
UGA would lead by as many as seven in the quarter before another three from Walker evened the score at 50.
The Lady Bulldogs would hold a 53-50 edge after scoring the final points of the frame.
With 4:25 remaining in regulation, Alabama trailed 66-60, however a five-point swing with a layup from Megan Abrams and an and-1 from Walker cut the lead to one.
A Barber layup at 3:06 knotted the game at 67 and free throws from Walker at 2:27 gave the Tide a 69-67 lead.
Georgia tied the game on its next possession and neither team scored for the duration to send it into overtime.
In the bonus period, the Lady Bulldogs would go on to lead throughout after scoring the first four points.

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