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UNEMPLOYMENT RATES ON THE RISEmississippi has reached its highest unemployment rate since last February, hitting 9.3 percent in January. professionals and students are concerned not only with the job outlook, but the absence of rising employment as well.
The renovation of Lamar Hall on campus was to be completed by this spring se-mester, but the process has lasted longer than expected.
Architect Ian Banner said the reinforced concrete floors inside Lamar Hall were post-
tensioned, meaning the con-crete was wrapped around steel tendons to decrease ten-sion. The removal of these floors cost more time because control jacking had to be used to cut through the steel.
Banner added that the concrete floors were sagging
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Summer experience for Ole Miss law studentsthe um School of Law will host a clinic this summer to provide ole miss students the opportunity to explore human rights and criminal justice policy issues, both in mississippi and abroad.
Dear seniors, job pros-pects in Mississippi haven’t improved yet this year.
The state’s unemploy-ment rate jumped to 9.3 per-cent in January – the high-est it’s been since February 2012 – according to the Mississippi Department of
Employment Security. The starting point was this past December’s unemployment rate of 8.6 percent.
It’s not just Mississippi, though, as unemployment rates increased nationwide from 7.8 to 7.9 percent in the same months. Nine states reported an increase in un-employment, with Missis-sippi and Illinois reporting
the largest increases at 0.4 percent.
Tom Garrett, associate professor of economics at Ole Miss, said Mississippi’s comparatively high unem-ployment rate is not unusu-al.
“Although Mississippi’s unemployment rate is high-
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Law students are going to get some practice outside of the classroom this sum-mer, as The University of Mississippi School of Law hosts the MacArthur Jus-tice Clinic.
Richard Gershon, dean of the Ole Miss School of Law, outlined the goals of the program, saying it will
provide law students the skills they practice in the professional world.
“The MacArthur Justice Clinic will allow students to engage in impact litiga-tion and is a great way for them to learn how to prac-tice law while helping those who do not have access to attorneys,” Gershon said.
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BY JEREMY K. [email protected]
Campus faceliftsLamar hall, the old law school building, has been under construction for over two years, raising questions about what kind of transformation the building will have. new classrooms, meeting rooms and offices are among the $8.5 million renovations.
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Sympathizing with the convicted Steubenville rapists:how cnn’s coverage proved the culture of victim-blaming
Last spring, I wrote a col-umn entitled “Sexual assault, rape and our culture of victim-blaming: How some women are fighting back.” Unlike many of my pieces, it was not in response to a specific national headline or break-ing news. I wrote the column with the help of several strong women in the Oxford com-munity because I believe that sexual assault is a crime that is not only despicable, but mis-
understood. We have all heard the statis-
tics: One in four women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime, and 60 percent of those attacks go unreported, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN).
Yet the perpetuation of mis-information has contributed to the culture of victim-blam-ing, where victims of sexual assault and rape are told that they brought the violence upon themselves. That they were asking for it, as if their own actions somehow justify the attack.
We’ve all heard the excus-es: They were drunk; they led him/her on; they dressed provocatively; they already
have a reputation. Even when our society doesn’t use these excuses to pardon the at-tacker, it uses them to put at least part of the blame on the victim. When a rapist is con-victed, society often laments the loss of their “future,” their “potential” and not the loss of the victim’s dignity, mental health or physical health.
Which brings me to the sub-ject of this column.
This past Sunday, a guilty verdict was handed down to Trent Mays and Ma’lik Rich-mond, two star Steubenville, Ohio, football players who were on trial for the rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl at a party on Aug. 11.
The two boys shamelessly posted evidence on Face-
book, Twitter, Instagram and in text messages. Smartphone pictures taken by other party-goers only corroborated the existing ones, showing the girl unresponsive as two boys carried her by her wrists and ankles.
But even though social me-dia and testimony provided irrefutable evidence for the case, when the police took the boys into custody on Aug. 22, their arrest divided the town and the country. While some were supportive of the vic-tim and called for justice, an equally vocal faction blamed her. Some even went so far as to claim that it was a plot to sabotage the football team or
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fell back to the classic “crying rape” excuse.
Victim-blaming ideals were even perpetuated by lead-ers of the football team itself: “The rape was just an excuse, I think,” assistant coach Nate Hubbard said. “What else are you going to tell your parents when you come home drunk like that and after a night like that ... ? Now people are try-ing to blow up our football program because of it.”
Regardless of public opin-ions, the country followed the case as developments pro-gressed. The two boys were put on trial. As news of the guilty verdict broke on Sun-day, cable stations immediate-ly picked up the story. CNN was one of them.
CNN’s immediate coverage took an unexpected, sympa-thetic tone toward the now-convicted rapists, and they failed to mention the victim at all.
Correspondent Poppy Har-low’s statement says it all:
“(It is) incredibly difficult, even for an outsider like me, to watch what happened as these two young men that had
such promising futures — star football players, very good students — literally watched as they believed their lives fell apart.”
Now, I realize that two cry-ing boys in court make a bet-ter visual focus for cable TV than an anonymous victim. But regardless of how unin-tentional CNN’s sympathetic commentary may have been, it is the perfect example of how our society perpetuates the idea of victim-blaming.
Instead of talking about how these two young men affected a 16-year-old girl’s life after raping her, CNN chose to talk about how their lives “fell apart” because of the charges she pressed. The blame is thus not put on the rapists themselves, but on the victim for causing the trial in the first place. A viewer is left to wonder what she did to cause the rape, and falls back on the classic idea of “She was drunk, so she was asking for
it.”If this idea holds true, does
that mean that every girl who gets drunk during a weekend at Ole Miss is “asking” to get raped?
The first step toward cor-recting the victim-blaming phenomenon in our society is
to recognize that there is an is-sue to begin with. The second step is to shift the blame off of the victim and onto the perpe-trators.
We have to stop making ex-cuses for the people who take advantage of others in the most intimate and violating of ways.
As I wrote in my last col-umn, rape doesn’t just happen to girls you think are putting themselves at risk. It happens to women, men and children of all ages, races, religions, shapes and sizes. It happens to mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, your sis-ters, your brothers and your friends.
If one good thing has come out of the CNN blunder, it is the fact that their insensitiv-ity has drawn national and international attention to our persistent culture of victim-blaming. Maybe, just maybe, this could be the first step to-wards change.
Lexi Thoman is senior inter-national studies and Spanish double-major from St. Louis, Mo.
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Gerald McLeod said he be-lieves the new clinic will have a significant impact on his future within the law school.
McLeod, alongside other undergraduate students, plans to participate in the clinic this summer.
“It will give the students a hands-on experience and help them to decide if this profession is one that they want to pursue,” McLeod said.
Phillip Broadhead, direc-tor of the criminal appeals clinic and clinical professor of law, said the clinic will benefit law students through practice and the advance preparation that law firms expect students to undergo.
“Clinical instructions in law school are increasing,” Broadhead said. “The first year of law school is mainly core courses, reading the law and getting to under-stand legal analysis.”
Gershon agreed that the impact of the program lies in its real-world application.
“This is an opportunity for our students to work with live clients on real is-sues that will have impact throughout the state,” he said.
For McLeod, participating in the clinic will be a chance to improve his chances of securing a job after graduat-ing. He said the clinic will be an experience that will facilitate networking within the law community.
In addition to community and theory, Broadhead said the clinic will also establish a public interest law firm
designed to help third-year students gain practical ex-perience as attorneys.
“The cases that the Rod-
erick MacArthur Founda-tion wants to find are high-profile cases that people will be reading about in the
newspaper,” Gershon said. “They will know that stu-dents at The University of Mississippi School of Law are helping to handle these cases.”
The MacArthur Justice Clinic will be added to an already extensive list of ser-vices and programs the law school offers to help stu-dents gain experience.
“The opportunities for stu-dents to actually become in-volved in public interest law will open many doors for students who otherwise will have a difficult time finding jobs,” Broadhead said.
The law school is currently seeking a tenure-track clini-cal faculty member to teach in the clinic. To receive more information about the position or submit an ap-plication, visit the Depart-ment of Human Resources website.
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across the length of the build-ing.
“While this was not a safety issue, it was necessary to add a lightweight concrete topping to level the slab,” he said.
WorkingBuildings Compa-nies, a construction consultan-cy, is the operating contractor for the building, overseeing its design, construction and op-eration.
According to WorkingBuild-ings’ website, the renovation of Lamar Hall allows the building to meet certain construction codes such as hazardous mold and asbestos, life safety and accessibility compliances. The total cost of the renovation is $8.5 million.
While the building needed work on existing classrooms and the William Winter In-stitute, most of the building’s construction has been for new classrooms and modified space.
Banner said Lamar Hall will have four new classrooms with 109 seats, 11 classrooms with 26-35 seats and one classroom with 54 seats.
There will also be two new large meeting rooms and space
dedicated to the Ole Miss Writ-ing Center.
Lamar Hall will also house about 35 new offices on the third floor, with around 15 to 20 additional offices on other levels of the building.
Renovations will include the addition of new bathrooms, two new elevators and food service.
In 2011, Banner told The Daily Mississippian the build-ing wouldn’t be open for use until it had registered for a certification after renovations were complete.
One year must pass between the time of registering and receiving the certification to make sure there are no prob-lems with the building.
A few other buildings on campus are also getting face-lifts this year.
According to Banner, John-son Commons West, the me-chanical plant on Gertrude
Ford Boulevard, the National Center for Products additions, Ventress Hall restoration, Stockard-Martin brick replace-ment, Alumni House guest wing roofing, Fulton and Meek Hall stage rigging and the Uni-versity Gates at Jackson Av-enue are all current projects.
The total cost of the current construction projects on cam-pus come to approximately $88 million.
“I think the construction on campus is great, and it’s good that buildings are being modi-fied and updated, but I still think some of that $88 mil-lion could go toward building a parking garage on campus,” Broadcast journalism senior Landon Heath said.
Some students are frustrated with the parking issues and road blocks on campus, seeing those as bigger issues than ap-pearance; however, others ap-preciate the updates.
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er compared to the nation, this is usually true historical-ly and is not an artifact of the recent recession,” he said.
Garrett also said both the U.S. and Mississippi should be more concerned that un-employment rates have not fallen as much as they usu-ally do following previous recessions.
These numbers do not in-clude those who are only looking for work sporadi-cally, working part-time or have given up looking for work altogether. In 2012, unemployment including these individuals in Missis-sippi averaged 15.1 percent. Nationwide, it averaged 14.7 percent.
In Lafayette County, the unemployment rate is 9 percent, and according to the Mississippi Department of Employment Security, roughly 2,170 county resi-dents are without jobs.
Of Mississippi’s 82 coun-ties, 60 have unemployment rates above the state aver-age. Rankin County has the lowest unemployment with 6.6 percent jobless, while Tu-
nica County has the highest rate with 20.9 percent.
“It is almost four years since the official end of the recession and unemploy-ment rates are much higher than they were before the re-cession,” Garrett said.
Garrett said one reason for these higher rates is the significant uncertainty in the business community regard-ing future costs.
“Businesses are performing average to good, but instead of expanding, hiring more workers and making addi-tional investments, they are storing cash,” Garrett said. “I think that until many of these factors turn around, unemployment rates will remain elevated for some time.”
Sophomore public poli-cy leadership and English double major Sara Elizabeth Baker said she thinks most students are worried about the job possibilities available after college.
“I feel that this is especial-ly a concern in Mississippi and this is causing many of our educated youth to go job searching in other states, which truly worries me be-cause right now we need young leaders to help better our state,” Baker said.
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Proposition 8 defines who can and cannot legally mar-ry. The theater world is chal-lenging that law, starting with a play in small-town Oxford.
“It’s amazing how the power of theater can hone in on human nature,” Director Rory Ledbetter said. “There is language, words and con-flict and because you are sit-ting in an auditorium, you are going to become en-gaged with it. You put your-self in their shoes.”
He added that personaliz-ing the characters can allow the audience to learn from a different perspective.
This Friday, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, a lesbian couple with four boys, and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarril-
lo, a gay couple, will spend 90 minutes sharing their lives during the stage read-ing of “8” at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Perform-ing Arts.
Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter for “Milk,” cre-ated the play to illustrate the struggle for gay marriage by using the actual testimonies from the Perry v. Schwar-zenegger (currently called Hollingsworth v. Perry) trial.
Since 2012, readings of the play have become more common in the U.S. as a way to illustrate the personal side of a court case. Since this specific case will be argued later this month, Ledbetter thought it would be impor-tant to introduce the play to students.
“The neat thing about this
Through their eyesthe university of mississippi theatre department, law professors and oxford residents will present a stage reading of the play “8” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, march 22. the play exposes the personal side of the proposition 8 decision.
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There aren’t many times when a music fan can “claim” a particular genre. People ev-erywhere can adore rock and roll or country, but who can truly call any genre their own?
These genres provide a backbone of character for many, but what group’s iden-tity do they belong to?
Fortunately for Mississippi-ans, we can stake a bit of claim in a genre.
For years now, the mu-sic world has come to blows about the questionable origins of the blues.
Did it start in Memphis with the huge onslaught of popular nightclubs on Beale Street? Did it emerge on the streets of New Orleans as a by-product of jazz? Or maybe it was in Chicago with their previously-unmatched efforts at recording the blues.
Some go back further and assert that the blues was born from the institution of slavery – a descendant of the slave
song and the camp holler.There is one place who has a
more reasonable stake. Mississippi has produced a
sizable amount of bluesmen, and nearly all of the first ones. In this question of blues ori-gins, it is hard for any place to make a better claim on them than our humble home state.
The first name that comes to mind, for better or worse, is Robert Johnson, the Hazlehu-rst native.
The classic media explo-sion over a boy who “sold his soul to the devil” launched the blues into an American phe-nomenon, a foreshadowing of the next 30 years when Amer-ica would obsess over finding, recording and mass-producing the porch-bound guitarists of the Delta.
However, Robert had his own predecessors. The hum-
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play is that it displays both sides of the argument,” he said.
René Pulliam, associate professor of theater arts, said she believes the play will make the court case clear to people who are confused about Proposition 8.
“One of our key goals is to embrace diversity, and it’s important to show ideas on stage that help explain events that people have questions about,” Pulliam said.
The cast is made up of law professors, Oxford residents and students and faculty from The University of Mis-sissippi’s theater department.
“By having people from different walks of the univer-sity, people can experience skills that students didn’t think their professors had,” Ledbetter said. “The com-munity can see itself in a brand new light.”
Katharine McNair, admin-istrative assistant to the chair for the theater department, said she thinks the genre should not scare people away from watching the show.
“The show is heartwarm-
ing and has a lot of laughs to be had along with the tears. So it is not just drama,” she said.
The event is free and plays for only one night. Ledbet-ter said he programmed the play this way to allow the audience to experience a stronger sense of community while observing the human condition displayed on stage.
Ledbetter also said he hopes the audience will mar-vel at the work as much as he did.
“I think that a lot of the information is going to blow people’s minds,” he said.
PROP 8, continued from page 6
COURTESY KATHARINE McNair
ble blues accompanist Willie Brown from Clarksdale had a slightly earlier start than our soulless hero.
Son House, perhaps one of the most intriguing and un-confirmed stories in blues lore, was a rabble-rousing blues-man one day and a repentant preacher the next.
Son came before Robert, and his voice and style have been vital to the creation of the Mississippi blues vernacular.
The blues’ early creators are not the only names na-tive to Mississippi though. For the first 30 years of the blues, the names that mattered were Mississippi names.
Quality increases as one gets closer to the source, and I’m of the opinion that Missis-sippi has been the wellspring of blues in America, one of the many things that contributes to my deep obsession with the character of this place.
This culture is a direct result of the long days, the longer nights, the cheating women, the flowing alcohol and the mythical porches of Missis-sippi that provided a back-drop for the blues completely
unique to this amazing place.Like any organism, the body
of the blues grew and grew, but its heart stayed in the Delta.
Something happened in the sprawling flatlands of Northwest Mississippi during the early 20th century. With names like Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Junior Kim-brough, John Lee Hooker and Honeyboy Edwards, the Delta developed into a microcosm of blues, prolific in creativity and vital in genre-making.
It would be a true sin to ad-dress the entirety of the blues in 600 words, and in fact my plan to approach the topic is
still not a just depiction of the gigantic legacy it possesses, but it’s something.
My next few columns will focus on a different aspect of the blues, perhaps a particu-lar performer or place or mo-ment.
It is my hope that, by the end of it, I’ll have produced a survey definition of blues ori-gin and culture through short columns and vignettes about the blues identity, its founders, their homes and the almost-mythical blues history they’ve created.
This is the first in a series of columns about the blues in Missis-sippi.
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SEC Baseball Power Poll: week 1in this week’s installment, the daily mississippian’s sports editor david collier ranks the 14 Southeastern conference teams. weekend opponents are also included for each team.
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This weekend at Kentucky
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ARKANSAS14-7, 1-2 SEC
This weekend at South Carolina
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TExAS A&M14-7, 3-0 SEC
This weekend at Ole Miss
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AUBURN13-6, 0-3 SEC
This weekend at LSU
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The Ole Miss softball team (18-15, 1-5 SEC) hosts Samford (9-13, 1-5 Southern Conference) today in a midweek tilt before traveling to No. 23 Georgia for a three-game set that begins Fri-day.
The Lady Rebels (18-15, 1-5 SEC) are looking to snap a four-game losing streak, which in-cludes a three-game sweep at the hands of No. 8 Missouri on the road, when the Lady Bulldogs (9-13, 1-5 Southern Conference) roll into town for the start of the second half of the season.
“We are ready to come out Wednesday and play some good softball,” head coach Windy Thees said in an Ole Miss athlet-ics release. “Our focus is taking
on the second half of the season and winning games.”
Juniors Shelby Jo Fenter (6-6) and Carly Hummel (7-8) lead Ole Miss in the circle, as Fenter has a team-high of 69 strikeouts to go along with a 3.40 ERA, and Hummel boasts a 3.77 ERA with 62 strikeouts on the year.
At the plate, junior center field-er R.T. Cantillo leads the Lady Rebels, hitting .385 with 22 RBI and five home runs. Sophomore Allison Brown is second on the team with a .330 average to go along with 25 RBI.
Samford holds a team ERA of 2.99 and are led by Mollie Han-son (7-8), who has a 1.76 ERA. Offensively, the Bulldogs hit just .225, but Madison Dickey leads the team with a .385 average.
First pitch is set for 6 p.m. at the Ole Miss Softball Complex.
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‘We’re not just happy to get here’head coach Andy Kennedy, senior guard nick williams and senior forward murphy holloway talked to the media tuesday about the ncAA tournament matchup Friday against wisconsin.
The Rebels have made it to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in a decade, but that doesn’t mean they are content with bowing out in the second round to higher-seeded Wis-consin.
“We’re not just happy to get here,” senior guard Nick Wil-liams said. “It’s been fun to this point and we did some great things, but we want to win.”
Ole Miss hadn’t won an SEC Tournament in three de-cades and had qualified for the NCAA Tournament just six times before this year.
So pulling off three come-back wins in three days, in-cluding a three-point victory over Florida in the champion-ship, would seem like the peak of this year’s success. But along with Williams, senior forwards Murphy Holloway and Regi-nald Buckner don’t want their careers to end with a loss to Wisconsin on Friday in Kansas City.
“I think that our guys will be excited about the opportu-nity,” head coach Andy Ken-nedy said. “For those three seniors, they know when that buzzer sounds, if we come up short, it is over. And with that, comes a real sense of urgency. I hope that we play with the same kind of enthusiasm, the same kind of focus that we did in Nashville.”
For Ole Miss, the enthusi-asm and desperation to win will be necessary. The Rebels didn’t play perfect basketball en route to the SEC title. Over the three games, they were out-rebounded by opponents and committed more turn-overs than assists.
But, after studying the game tape, Kennedy said Ole Miss got to 70 percent of the loose balls in Nashville, a rough measure of desire and luck, which will likely be needed to knock off Wisconsin. The Bad-gers are known for their slow pace and their ability to limit quality offensive looks.
Ole Miss clinched the auto-
matic bid to the Big Dance but was on the bubble and likely wouldn’t have been deserving of an at-large bid had they lost their first SEC Tournament game to Missouri. But by win-ning the SEC Tournament, Ole Miss proved its worth.
“I think we belong (in the NCAA Tournament),” Hol-loway said. “Coach (asked) us when we were playing Florida, ‘Do you actually think we be-long here?’ At halftime, every-one said, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘Play like you belong here. You have earned it.’
“I think we have earned it. We belong to be in the spot we are.”
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He’s the all-time winningest coach in Ole Miss history. He’s now guided the Rebels to a re-cord seven-straight winning seasons. But Andy Kennedy still has had to prove his worth to the Ole Miss fan base.
With a 66-63 victory over the Florida Gators to claim the SEC Championship, Ken-nedy proved his worth and secured a spot in the NCAA tournament for the first time in his tenure at Ole Miss.
His job security has been questioned every time his team failed to receive an NCAA Tournament bid.
This year, he’s been criti-cized for creating too weak of a schedule. The Rebels’ biggest nonconference win
is Rutgers. They traveled to and lost to Middle Tennessee State. Ole Miss was counting on drawing tough opponents in the Diamond Head Clas-sic, but after falling to Indiana State in the first game, they missed the opportunity to play Arizona, Miami or San Diego State.
Kennedy’s been criticized for not getting his players mo-tivated, which was highlighted by this year’s losses at South Carolina and Mississippi State.
He’s been criticized for not winning big games, for losing every game where something important was at stake.
But his team just won three games in less than 48 hours to exorcise all of those demons.
They knocked off an NCAA Tournament lock in Missouri, which has some of the most individually talented players in the SEC from Phil Pressey to Alex Oriakhi to Laurence Bowers.
They defeated the home-town, and suddenly streaking,
Vanderbilt Commodores who manhandled Kentucky the day before.
Then they knocked off the Florida Gators, the SEC regu-lar season champions. They trailed by as many as 14 and gave Florida just their third loss after leading at halftime.
And they did it all as a bat-tered group.
Ole Miss basically received no production from junior forward Demarco Cox this season as he suffered multiple leg injuries. Then sophomore forward Aaron Jones went down for the season, leaving Ole Miss desperately thin in the front court.
Ole Miss had time to adjust to these blows, but during the first game of the tournament, starting sophomore point guard Jarvis Summers went down with a concussion. This left Ole Miss with one true point guard.
Kennedy adjusted and rode freshman point guard Derrick Millinghaus to a thrilling win
over Missouri, but during the next two games, Kennedy al-ternated between Millinghaus and his impromptu backup point guard, sophomore LaDarius White.
Of course, none of this would have happened if tournament MVP Marshall Henderson
hadn’t sparked the Rebels in all three games. The junior guard has fueled the Rebels all year, and Kennedy deserves all the credit for bringing him to Oxford.
Henderson has a past that would prevent most coaches from pursuing him, but Ken-nedy knew his team had a des-perate need. They needed a shooter, a scorer, a life source.
Henderson led the SEC in scoring. He broke the single season record for 3-pointers made. He sparked this team game after game. All this happened because Kennedy allowed Marshall to be him-self. As dangerous as that may have been, it worked.
Kennedy managed the in-juries and the personality. He eliminated the bubble and is now dancing as the Ole Miss head coach.
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