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How To Watch: No. 4 Tennessee at Ole Miss

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The Pavilion at Ole Miss | Ole Miss Athletics
The Pavilion at Ole Miss | Ole Miss Athletics

No. 4 Tennessee is back on the road tonight, playing at Ole Miss in a 9 p.m. Eastern Time start on ESPN at The Pavilion at Ole Miss. The Vols have won seven of their last eight games, including wins in their last two road games at Texas A&M and LSU.

Tennessee (24-5, 11-5 SEC) beat Alabama 79-76 Saturday at Food City Center, winning on Jahmai Mashack’s 35-foot buzzer-beater after rallying from down nine points in the second half.

Ole Miss (20-9, 9-7) got a 3-pointer from Sean Pedulla with 19 seconds left Saturday night to put the Rebels ahead 85-84 against Oklahoma, on the way to an 87-84 win at The Pavilion at Ole Miss. The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Rebels.

How To Watch: No. 4 Tennessee at Ole Miss

Start Time: Wednesday, 9 p.m. Eastern Time

TV: ESPN2

Streaming: ESPN App or WatchESPN.com

Radio: WNML-FM 99.1 in Knoxville. The Vol Network radio broadcast can be heard on local affiliates across the state of Tennessee.

KenPom Prediction: Tennessee 69, Ole Miss 65 (62% chance to win)

The LineTennessee -2.5 (Total: 137.5)

The Series: Tennessee vs. Ole Miss

Tennessee is 79-45 all time against Ole Miss in a series that dates back to 1924. The Vols have won four straight in the series and nine of the last 10 dating back to February 2017. 

Tennessee beat Ole Miss 90-64 in Knoxville last season and beat the Rebels 70-55 in the SEC Tournament in March 2023. The Vols won 63-59 in Oxford in December 2022 and lost 52-50 there in February 2021. Tennessee teams also won in Oxford in 2018 and 2019.

Ole Miss won the first two meetings against Tennessee in the Rick Barnes era — 83-60 in Knoxville in 2016 and 80-69 at Ole Miss in January 2017 — before starting the current run of nine wins in the last 10 games.

A Closer Look: The Ole Miss Rebels

Ole Miss started the season 15-2, including four straight wins to start SEC play. The run culminated with a 74-64 win at Alabama on January 14.

Since then, though, the Rebels are 5-7. The win at Alabama was followed with four losses over the next five games, losing at Mississippi State, at home against Texas A&M, at Missouri and home against Auburn.

Ole Miss then won three straight, beating Kentucky at home and LSU and South Carolina on the road, before losing three straight to Mississippi State, at Vanderbilt and at Auburn.

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