Charleston Southern beats Ole Miss on tip dunk at the buzzer
Opening night gave us a wild finish that ended in the biggest upset of the early season slate.
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Ricky O'Donnell has covered basketball at all levels for more than a decade at SB Nation. He’s currently the Associate Director of Programming.
Insanity is a fact of life in college basketball, and the sport won’t even give you one full night of games before it reminds you of it. On Friday night, Ole Miss hosted Charleston Southern in a game that should have been an early season tuneup for the Rebels. Ole Miss isn’t considered a great team, but the Rebels still finished 19-13 in the SEC lat season. By contrast, Charleston Southern went 13-18 in the Big South.
Well, as the old saying goes, you can throw out the record books when Ole Miss and Charleston Southern hook up. Behind 17 points from guard Arlon Harper and a strong all-around game from Saah Nimley (eight points, 10 rebounds, five assists, two steals), the Buccaneers nipped the Rebels, 66-65. This video above is how it ended.
Obviously, that is extremely close, but it appears to be the right call. Charleston Southern's football team was pretty happy about it. The only bummer is that Marshall Henderson hasn't tweeted about it yet.
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