Wednesday SEC Basketball Schedule

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• After logging approximately 17,764 miles of air travel in the season's opening month, claiming wins in seven of their eight contests and climbing into the Top 10, the Aggies continue their four-game homestand Wednesday.
• Texas A&M has quickly built one of the country's most impressive résumés with four wins over four high-major opponents - West Virginia, Oklahoma State, Penn State and USC.
• The Aggies rank No. 5 in the NCAA's daily RPI report (through Dec. 11 games) ... Duke ranks first.
• Through Dec. 11 games, Kenpom.com rate the Aggies as one of the nation's elite defensive teams by slotting them third in adjusted defensive efficiency (89.3) ... A&M ranks first in the SEC in field goal percentage defense (fifth nationally), allowing opponents to shoot just 36.2 percent from the field.
• On the offensive end, Texas A&M has also been one of the country's best as well, checking in at No. 25 in Kenpom.com's adjusted offensive efficiency ... overall, kenpom.com ranks the Aggies sixth in its College Basketball rating.

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PROMOTIONS
First 1,000 fans receive Mt. Rushmore collectible (1 of 4) featuring Stefan Moody.

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- Four of the previous five matchups between Ole Miss and Sam Houston State have taken place in Oxford.
- Wednesday’s contest will be the first of four games played over a span of nine days for the Rebels.
- Ole Miss begins a five-game homestand to end the 2017 calendar year.
- The Rebels have used six different starting lineups in eight games, one of seven different teams nationally to have done that.
- Ole Miss is 54-3 all-time versus current members of the Southland Conference; the Rebels will play two of their next three games against Southland Conference opponents.
- The Rebels are 19th in the country in fewest turnovers surrendered (96).
- Senior Deandre Burnett ranks second in the SEC and 21st nationally with a 3.5 assist/turnover ratio; he’s recorded 25 assists and only four turnovers over the past four games.
- With 85 career blocks, senior Marcanvis Hymon ranks 11th on the school’s all-time list and is four away from jumping into the top 10.
- Against Middle Tennessee, Hymon went 6 of 6 from the floor, becoming the first Rebel to go perfect from the field (minimum five shot attempts) since he went 6 of 6 as a sophomore (Dec. 15, 2015 vs. Louisiana Tech).
- In his first career start at Ole Miss, junior college transfer Bruce Stevens posted a career-high 10 points at Middle Tennessee.
- Guards are accounting for 75.8 percent of the Rebels’ scoring.
- Terence Davis has scored double digits in 22 of the last 23 games dating back to last season, including 13 straight.
- Ole Miss is in the 12th season of the Andy Kennedy era; Kennedy, the Dean of the SEC, is the winningest coach in school history with 238 victories.
- Only eight games into this season, Kennedy already has the fifth-most wins in SEC history by a coach in his first 12 years in the league at one school.

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The game is the second of the “Christmas Wadecation” games in December and the first 2,000 fans to the building will receive Beanie Hats.

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The Tigers are expected to continue with the lineup of the last two games with Tremont Waters (18.3 ppg, 6.6 apg, 3.6 rpg), Skylar Mays (12.1 ppg, 3.4 2.6 apg) and Randy Onwuasor (5.2 ppg, 1.2 apg) at guards with Wayde Sims (7.7 ppg, 3.9 rpg) and Aaron Epps (6.5 ppg, 3.7 rpg) at the forwards.
SEC Player of the Week Duop Reath will continue to come off the bench where he has had success, including 30 points in 27 minutes of the game against UNCW Sunday.

LSU leads the nation in shooting percentage inside the arc at 63.1 percent including 45-of-74 over the last two games. This is up from last season when LSU shot 50.2% inside the arc. LSU is making 30.7 field goals per game overall, 14th in the NCAA and up 2.3 from last year’s season average of 27.5.

Waters just missed a triple double against UNCW with 20 points, 10 rebounds and 9 rebounds. He is the first to have back-to-back double figure assist games since Randy Livingston had three straight games of 10 or more assists during the 1994-95 season.

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The Cougars 8-1 record is their best start to a season since the 2007-08 team began 11-1 … Houston has outrebounded its first nine opponents to open the season, something that has not happened since 1981-82.

Houston is led by Rob Gray, the senior guard, leads the team averaging 21.6 points and 3.5 assists per game. Houston also starts Lafayette product Corey Davis, Jr. (9.6 ppg, 3.0 apg) and Galen Robinson, Jr. at guards (3.7 ppg, 3.6 apg) with Devin Davis (13.1 ppg, 7.4 rpg) and Breaon Brady (5.6 ppg, 5.8 rpg) at the forwards. West Van Beck comes off the bench and scores at an 11.0 points per game clip.

Kelvin Sampson is in his fourth year as head coach of the Cougars and in his 29th year as a head coach.

Gray leads the league in points and ranks among league’s top-eight leaders in free throw percentage, 3-point field goals per game, 3-point field goal percentage and assist-turnover ratio.

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