Women’s hoops battles LSU next.

By Bill Bunting
Daily Mississippian

(February 26, 1999) — Ole Miss followed up its best game of the yearwith what could arguably be called it’s worst asKentucky knocked the Lady Rebs from the SECTournament with a 75-59 win.

Ole Miss (15-12, 6-8 SEC) ended the season inthe first round of the SEC Tournament, only thesecond time the Lady Rebels have fallen in the first round of the tournament.Kentucky (19-9, 7-7) continues on to play LSU in the second round of thetournament Friday.

“Give Kentucky credit for playing hard and giving us difficulty in ouroffense,”Ole Miss head coach Ron Aldy said. Defensively they put is in aposition to create lots of foul situations with the way they took the ball to thehole and penetrated.”

Kentucky came up with 11 steals against the Lady Rebels and forced 20turnovers for the game. Ole Miss came out of the gates looking tentative andnervous and never recovered, forcing shots and making poor ball handlingdecisions throughout the game. “Kentucky came out ready to play and wedidn’t,” said senior forward Lesli Vollrath.

“We didn’t step up and hit shots when we needed to.”

Ole Miss had trouble holding on to the ball in the first half of the game,turning the ball of several times with traveling viloations. The most notabletraveling offense in the first half came as Corbitt left her feet after taking anelbow that knocked her to the ground.

The Lady Rebels needed to limit the offensive output of Tiffany Wait andLaura Meadows in order to be in a position for a win. It didn’t happen. Waitput up 20 points for the Wildcats while Medows put up 18 points and pulleddown 11 rebounds. LaTonya McDole notched 16 points. Also stepping upbig was Shantia Owens who pulled down 17 rebounds for the game,including 11 defensive boards.

Ole Miss was led by senior forward Tarsha Bethley who put up 17 pointsand pulled down 10 rebounds for her 15th double-double of her career.Bethley was joined by sophomore guard Becky Myatt who posted 14 pointsfor the Lady Rebels.