Ole Miss rallies behind Murrell, Ruffin for 63-55 win

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Matthew Murrell scored 21 factors and Daeshun Ruffin had 17 with the 2 combining for 28 within the second half when Mississippi rallied to beat Temple 63-55 on Saturday.

After capturing simply 27% and giving up 16 factors off turnovers within the first half the Rebels (8-3) rebounded to shoot 48% within the second half and overtake the Owls.

Damian Dunn scored 16 factors and Khalif Battle 15 for Temple (6-6), which shot 24% within the second half.

Ole Miss led 51-44 with 5 minutes to after play after two baskets every from Ruffin and Murrell and Murrell’s first 3-pointer after seven misses. Ruffin assisted on a Myles Burns dunk to make it an eight-point edge with 3:43 left.

Regardless of the lead, the Bulldogs gave up fouls that despatched Temple to the road 4 occasions the place the Owls transformed seven free throws and left them trailing by three with 1:14 remaining.

The Rebels’ Jayveous McKinnis swatted a Temple shot into the face of teammate Jaemyn Brakefield that knocked Brakefield to the ground however McKinnis recovered the ball and made a free throw with 45 seconds remaining. Burns took a long inbounds pass and broke away for a layup and Murrell added 4 free throws from there to ice the win.

A Ruffin layup adopted by his feed to Murrell for a transition dunk tied the sport at 35-all with just below 14 minutes remaining and seconds later a three-point play by TJ Caldwell gave the Rebels their first lead because the opening minutes.

Zach Hicks hit a pair of 3-pointers in a 9-2 run to present Temple a five-point lead early and the Owls led by as many eight earlier than going into halftime forward 27-24.

Ruffin got here in averaging a bit of over six factors per recreation however was 5 of 10 from the sector on this night time with two 3-pointers whereas going 5 of 6 on the line. Burns grabbed 12 rebounds.

Temple was with out 6-foot-11 Jamille Reynolds, who had began all 11 earlier video games and had been averaging 11.1 factors, third on the staff, and was the Owls’ main rebounder. He had proper thumb surgical procedure Wednesday and is anticipated to overlook six to eight weeks.

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