FAYETTEVILLE – The Arkansas women’s basketball team (18-12, 6-9 SEC) is looking to snap their three-game losing skid and finish the regular season with a win, as the Hogs head to Oxford, Mississippi to face Ole Miss (21-7, 11-4 SEC) on Sunday. The game will tipoff at 3 p.m. on SEC Network at SJB Pavilion.
Arkansas women’s basketball plays one final regular season SEC contest before the SEC Tournament with a road matchup at Ole Miss
Arkansas is looking to get win No. 19, seventh in SEC, as well as a bye on Wednesday of the SEC Tournament
Ole Miss has won three straight against the Hogs, and enter Sunday’s game 21-7 with a lock for the three-seed of the conference tournament
Taliah Scott leads the Hogs in scoring with 22.1 points per game, and is the only player in the SEC to average 20.0+ points per game
Saylor Poffenbarger is one of the top defensive rebounders in the country. She leads the SEC in defensive rebounds/game (9.6) and is second in rebounds/game (11.4), which are second and seventh in the NCAA. She has pulled down 331 boards, which surpasses the total she had all season as a redshirt freshman in 2022-23 (255). Her 53 3-pointers is tied for the most on the team
Samara Spencer leads the team with 107 assists. Her 357 career assists is No. 11 on the career list and her 1,333 points is No. 18 on the all-time scoring list
Maryam Dauda has made a big jump this season, pacing the team with 71 blocks, which is third in the league (2.4 per game), and her 2.8 blocks per game in SEC contests paces the league. She is No. 3 on the individual season block list at Arkansas
Makayla Daniels is an elite defender and leads the team with 49 steals and is tied for a team’s most 53 3-pointers made. She is the highest scoring point guard in school history with 1,821 points, making her a top five scorer in school history, while holding a program’s most starts and games played records with 152, as well as career minutes (4,482). Daniels was selected on the All-SEC Preseason Second Team, as chosen by the league’s coaches
The Hogs lead the league in 3-pointers per game (9.1), which is 12th in the NCAA, 3-point attempts per game (30.1), a number that is third in the country, as well as turnovers per game (12.6), 19th in the country
SCOUTING OLE MISS
Ole Miss is 21-7 and 11-4 in SEC play
In the SEC Preseason Polls, Ole Miss was picked to finish fourth in both the media and coaches after finishing the 2022-23 season 25-9 with an 11-5 mark and a trip to the NCAA Sweet 16
Madison Scott was tabbed to the All-SEC Preseason Team, first by the coaches and second by the media. Last season, she averaged 11.6 points per game and a team-leading 8.0 rebounds per game with 72 assists, 36 steals and 31 blocks
Former Hog Marquesha Davis leads Ole Miss with 13.8 points per game and 40 total steals
Rebounding is well distributed across the lineup with Scott and Rita Igbokwe leading the way with 5.9 boards per game. Scott also leads the team with 89 assists and Igbokwe has a team’s most 48 blocks
Head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin just achieved win No. 100 at Ole Miss on Thursday in her sixth season at the helm. McPhee-McCuin is coming off leading Ole Miss to the Rebels’ 11th NCAA Sweet 16 after the Rebels defeated No. 1 Stanford in the second round (W, 54-49)
HISTORY AGAINST THE REBELS
Arkansas trails Ole Miss in the all-time series, 29-21, as Sunday will mark game No. 51 of the all-time series
In games played in Oxford, Ole Miss has the 17-4 advantage
Head coach Mike Neighbors is 5-3 vs. Ole Miss
Ole Miss has a three-game winning streak vs. Arkansas. In the past 10 meetings, Arkansas has a 6-4 advantage
Arkansas fell to Ole Miss in a heartbreaking 76-73 overtime loss despite being up by 19 points at the half at Bud Walton Arena. Spencer logged 16 points, five rebounds and six assists, while Daniels has 12 points, six rebounds, three assists and three steals
LAST TIME OUT
Arkansas lost to No. 1/1 South Carolina in Arkansas’ final regular season home game, 98-61. The Hogs trailed 26-22 after the first quarter, but were outscored 72-39 in the remaining three quarters
Dauda had a career-high 19 points with three blocks
Carly Keats delivered 11 points off 6-of-8 from the field with three rebounds and two steals
Spencer logged 11 points and went 6-of-8 from the line, adding three assists and three steals
Daniels registered 10 points, four rebounds, three assists and one steal
Jenna Lawrence recorded six points with a career-high six boards in a career-high 21 minutes off the bench
UPCOMING
Sunday’s game impacts seeding for Arkansas at the SEC Tournament, which is held from Wednesday, March 6 to Sunday, March 10 at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina.
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