Pedulla a Top 10 basketball transfer; Ole Miss offensive line most experienced in CFB
On3 earlier this week rolled out its top basketball portal commitments from the SEC.
Included was Ole Miss point guard Sean Pedulla.
Pedulla left Virginia Tech in the off-season to join a Rebel transfer class ranked by On3 as the 16th-best in the nation. The Rebels are fourth in the SEC.
Ole Miss also added Ja’Von Benson (Hampton), Davon Barnes (Sam Houston State), Dre Davis (Seton Hall), Malik Dia (Belmont) and Mikeal Brown-Jones (UNC-Greensboro).
“We’re obviously going to be an experienced team,” second-year Ole Miss head coach Chris Beard said. “We have eight seniors on the team. Four or five are playing their fifth year. I’d argue there’s going to be nobody more experienced than us just in terms of games played.”
Pedulla was an All-ACC guard for the Hokies.
He played north of 100 games in three seasons and totaled over 1,200 points and 300 assists. The 6-foot-1, 195-pound Pedulla had a team-high 16.4 points a year ago.
“I’ll be at the point mostly, but I’ll play off the ball some when JuJu (Murray) or some of the other ball-handlers are in the game,” Pedulla told the Ole Miss Spirit’s Chuck Rounsaville. “All I know is that I’m really excited to get to Oxford.
“My game is to be aggressive on offense and defense. I can create off the bounce and for my teammates. I like to play pressure defense. We played slower than I like at Virginia Tech. That was one of the selling points.”
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NOT THEIR FIRST RODEO
The Ole Miss offensive line is the most experienced in all of college football.
The Rebels feature a front with a collective 222 career starts — eight better than No. 2 Oklahoma State. Florida State (190) is third. Louisville (172) and Purdue (165) round out the Top 5.
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Ole Miss won a program-record 11 games last season and made its second New Year’s Six bowl appearance of the last three. The Rebels return a host of linemen with starting experience: Jeremy James, Caleb Warren, Micah Pettus, Jayden Williams, Reece McIntyre and Eli Acker.
They also added transfers Diego Pounds (North Carolina), Gerquan Scott (Southern Miss) and the Washington pair of Julius Buelow and Nate Kalepo.
“Ole Miss, everybody’s talking about it right now,” Pounds said on the Spirit’s ‘Ivey League’ podcast back in March. ‘Cause y’all are getting all these players out of the portal.
“So, as soon as I hit the portal and I realized I had an opportunity to come here? And with (Ole Miss offensive line) coach (John) Garrison being here? Coach Garrison recruited me out of high school at NC State. Me and him had a really good connection; he had a (NFL) first-rounder under him at NC State.
“It was kind of a no-brainer.”
