From the Locker Room: Yolett McPhee-McCuin and Angel baker on Ole Miss' win at Mississippi State
The Ole Miss women’s basketball team continues to end lengthy droughts of success and Sunday was no different. The Rebels went down and knocked off Mississippi State in Starkville for the first time since 2007.
In head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin’s nearly five-year tenure at Ole Miss, getting to the consistent standard of beating Southeastern Conference teams such as Mississippi State on the road was the goal.
Sunday’s victory was the second for Ole Miss (13-2, 2-0 SEC) in its last three meetings with the Bulldogs. Each team held serve on its home court last season and the Rebels have a chance to improve it to 3-1 in the last four games when they meet in Oxford later this month.
“That tells you how hard it is to win here,” McCuin said of ending the 15-year losing streak in Starkville. “We’re working to build something like this. We’re getting there. Mississippi State has been to the Final Four and we haven’t yet but we’d like to get there.
“It just shows where the program has come. I don’t think my job is done here at Ole Miss until I helped a team win the national championship, but I’m only five years in. For me, this is a huge win in my book as we continue to go.”
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Ole Miss was once again carried by the play of Angel Baker who scored a game-high 22 points.
An Ole Miss team that is not known for its offensive prowess Baker was going to be asked to become the majority of the offense along with Madison Scott and Snudda Collins playing supporting roles.
Those three are the top three leading scorers for the Rebels through 15 games, including two games into SEC play.
“To be honest (McCuin) got in me and said, ‘It’s time,'” Baker said. “That’s all I needed. I feel like once I seen the first one go in the rim got bigger. After that I feel like it’s my job as the position that I’m in with this team. That’s my role.”
Watch the rest of McCuin and Baker’s postgame press conferences plus game highlights below. Videos provided by Ole Miss Sports Productions.
