The first week of SEC Basketball was a ride.
If you’re reading this, I’m sure you’re aware of Missouri winning their first two games.
But are you also aware they’re 2-0 with Texas A&M, Mississippi State, Arkansas and Vanderbilt. A few of these teams are not like the others.
Vanderbilt wasn’t predicted by most to be who they are at this point. We probably were the only outlet to have them in the top half of the league. But nobody could have predicted Tyler Tanner turning into a round 1 draft pick after
watching last season. Arkansas has John Calipari and high level recruiting, so it’s not surprising they are where they are.
Texas A&M probably isn’t that good, but the style of play is disruptive, and they’ve played an over-inflated LSU team to a narrow win, and needed a weird huge run plus some officiating magic to beat a mediocre Auburn team. Mississippi State won an overtime game at Texas, another bad team. Then turned around and blew out Oklahoma at home… beating another bad team.
Missouri is in the middle of these two teams. Vandy has been excellent from the jump, and look like SEC title contenders. Arkansas was expected to be good. Meanwhile little was expected of A&M and MSU. Mizzou was expected to be a tournament team, and are finally looking like it.
Vanderbilt has LSU at home, they should be 3-0. Texas A&M has Oklahoma at home, which should be a pretty close contest. Arkansas is at Auburn, so they probably should be 3-0. Meanwhile MSU is at Kentucky and who knows how that is going to go. UK is a mess, but would they really lose to a team who lost to K-State by 19 just a few months ago?
Mizzou has gone to Ole Miss and won before. The Rebels aren’t the best version of themselves these days. It appears Chris Beard is still searching for a good team.
The Tigers have won at Ole Miss in 2018, then again in 2022 and 2023. The last time the two teams played in Oxford an 0-18 Missouri team lost by 3. That was an awful 2024 season when the Rebels won 5 of their first 8, and then lost 9 of their last 11, with their only wins coming against that Mizzou team who didn’t win any games all year.
All I’m saying is Mizzou should provide some payback for that.
Missouri-Ole Miss Basketball: How to Watch, Game Info:
TIME: 5:00 p.m. CT
DATE: Saturday, January 10, 2026
LOCATION: SJB Pavillion at Ole Miss; Oxford, MS
TELEVISION: SEC Network
STREAM: WatchESPN
FORUMS: Rockm.Plus/Forums
College Basketball Games to watch, January 10th, 2026
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