Back-to-back wins and SEC honors for Scott. What can’t these Ole Miss women do right now?
Madison Scott had but one thing on her mind as she went up for her game-tying, overtime-forcing, final-seconds-defying layup against rival Mississippi State.
“Win the game,” Scott said in her postgame comments.
The Rebels did, of course. But Scott also won some individual hardware for her efforts. Scott, the senior Ole Miss forward, was announced Tuesday as the SEC’s Co-Player of the Week.
The Rebels (18-7, 8-4 SEC) are winners of back-to-back games, including another overtime fight last week, but instead at Florida and on Thursday. Scott had a career-high 27 points against the Gators. She added 12 rebounds for her fifth double-double of the season and the 26th at Ole Miss.
Scott moved into eighth in school history in career double-doubles.
Her point total was the highest by any one Rebel since the 2022 SEC Tournament.
Ole Miss needed every single one of them, too. The Rebels trailed by as many as 16 in the game.
Scott finished with 20 points, nine rebounds and three assists in the Rebels’ rally of a win over the Bulldogs. Scott scored nine of her points in the fourth quarter alone. Ole Miss has now won at least eight SEC games for the third straight season — another program first.
“We just want to continue to be tough, play together as a team and just come out here and compete for 40 minutes or however long. Doesn’t matter,” Guard Kennedy Todd-Williams said after the State win.
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“We’re starting to see that through and through these last couple of games.”
⛹️♀️WK15 | SEC Women’s Basketball Weekly Awards
— Southeastern Conference (@SEC) February 20, 2024
CO-PLAYER: Madison Scott@OleMissWBB x #SECWBB pic.twitter.com/0ozfdVGdny
Scott has been named SEC Player of the Week twice this season.
Each is the first of her illustrious Rebel career. Scott is the first Rebel to earn SEC Player of the Week multiple times in a single season since Armintie Price back in 2006-07.
Ole Miss has four regular season games left. The Rebels next host Georgia Thursday (February 22) at 6:30 p.m. CT on SEC Network +.
“We’re in the backstretch, y’all,” Ole Miss head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin said Tuesday in her weekly press conference. “Four more games remaining. It hit me when I was walking out the house today and I had two more stacks of tickets for games. We are now wanting to finish strong. As a program, we’re chasing something significant. We’re going to make sure we go into March red-hot.”
