The University of Mississippi is a public research university in Oxford, Mississippi, with a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and is the state's largest by enrollment.
The Ole Miss Rebels are the 18 men's and women's intercollegiate athletic teams that are funded by and represent the University of Mississippi, located in Oxford. The first was the football team, which began play in 1893.
Gerald Damon Glass is a retired American professional basketball player.
Carrollwood Day School is a non-sectarian, co-educational, independent day school for students, from age two through high school in Tampa, Florida.
Rebel, The Black Bear was the mascot of the Ole Miss Rebels, the collegiate athletic teams of the University of Mississippi. The anthropomorphic black bear replaced Colonel Reb as the official mascot in 2010. On October 6, 2017, Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter announced that the new university mascot would be the Landshark, beginning with the 2018–19 season. Rebel's design would later be recycled for Joe Bear, the mascot of the Lenoir-Rhyne University in late 2019.
Marshall James Henderson is a former professional American basketball player. He last played for Pavia Basket in the Italian Serie C-Gold league. He played college basketball for the Ole Miss Rebels and was a former graduate manager for the team. Henderson is now an Assistant Coach at Independence Community College in Independence, Kansas.
Yolanda Moore is a former American professional basketball player. She was the post game radio analyst for the Memphis Grizzlies in 2007.
Aaron Eugene Jones is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for Golden Eagle Ylli of the Kosovo Superleague. He played college basketball for Ole Miss.
Cheikh Tidiane Mbodj is a Senegalese professional basketball player, who plays for Bambitious Nara of the B.League. He competed in college basketball for Cincinnati.
Josh Ritchart is an American former professional basketball player. After five years at UC Davis, Ritchart began his professional career in Japan, before splitting the 2016–17 season in Greece and Sweden. In 2018, he moved to Australia and joined the Rockingham Flames of the State Basketball League (SBL).
The Bambitious Nara are a Japanese professional basketball team based in Nara, Nara Prefecture, that competes in the second division of the B.League.
Trevor Crosby Gaskins is a Panamanian professional basketball player for El Calor de Cancún of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, and the Panama national team. He played college basketball at Ole Miss and Louisiana Tech.
Damier Erik Pitts is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Marshall before starting his professional career in 2012. During his first professional season, he led the Icelandic top-tier Úrvalsdeild karla in scoring. In 2018, he won the Portuguese League Cup with S.L. Benfica.
Murphy McQuite Holloway is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Daegu KOGAS Pegasus of the Korean Basketball League. A power forward/center, he played college basketball for University of Mississippi before playing professionally in Turkey, Israel, Italy, France, the Philippines, South Korea, Bahrain, and Germany.
Naraden Arena is an arena in Nara, Nara, Japan. It is the home arena of the Bambitious Nara of the B.League, Japan's professional basketball league.
Julian Tawanda Mavunga is a Zimbabwean-American professional basketball player. He is the older brother of WNBA player Stephanie Mavunga of the Indiana Fever. He played four seasons of college basketball for Miami University, where he broke Miami's career games record at 124 appearances. He was intentionally elbowed by Shiga forward Henry Walker on March 3, 2019. His younger brother Jordache Mavunga plays for the Bambitious Nara of the B.League.
Arianne Hartono is a Dutch tennis player. On 8 April 2024, she reached her career-high singles WTA ranking of No. 135, and on 11 July 2022, she achieved No. 123 in doubles. Hartono has won three singles titles and 20 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Cameron Jackson is an American professional basketball player for Bambitious Nara of the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for the Wofford Terriers.
Channing Taylor Foster is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder.
The 2023–24 Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball team represented the University of Mississippi during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Rebels were led by first-year head coach, Chris Beard. The Rebels played their home games at The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss in University, Mississippi, just outside Oxford, as members of the Southeastern Conference. The team posted their first 20-win season in five years but did not participate in any postseason tournaments, failing to qualify for the NCAA Tournament and subsequently declining an invitation to compete in the National Invitation Tournament.
