third-year Ole Miss head coach Chris Beard said<\/a> of landing Kamardine. \u201cSpain or Russia or France or Italy, just like somebody in Jackson, Mississippi. Just the access to the information. Basketball is a small world when you really get at it. There\u2019s all sorts of connectors.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201c(Ole Miss assistant) Brian Burg was the lead recruiter and everyone on our staff did a great job on all these players. But we were able to develop a relationship with Ilias and his family, his representation, his basketball family. Just excited that he\u2019s trusting us with his next step in his basketball future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ole Miss is No. 19 in On3\u2019s transfer team rankings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ole Miss returns three players (Malik Dia, Eduardo Klafke and Zach Day) from last season\u2019s 24-win and Sweet 16 team. They also signed seven transfers and three Top 100 high-school players.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have enough talent on our team to win any 40-minute game,\u201d Beard said. \u201cThere won\u2019t be a 40-minute game this year we just throw up the white towel because of talent. We\u2019ll be there. We\u2019ll have to piece this thing together and play winning basketball.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all enjoyed that ride last year. That team was built on character. That team was built on guys that from the first day to the last day, through the ups and downs (and) the valleys and peaks, just kept fighting. We got a little spoiled. This year we tried to put really good human beings together. Now, can we turn this into a culture? Yet to be seen. That\u2019s what we\u2019re working on.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ole Miss basketball has opened summer workouts, with every player reporting except former Eurobasket MVP Ilias Kamardine. Kamardine,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,4002,217,20409,231,772,1544,4001,20398,9345,12418,195],"class_list":{"0":"post-93952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chris-beard","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ilias-kamardine-25-france","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-basketball","14":"tag-ncaab","15":"tag-ole-miss","16":"tag-ole-miss-basketball","17":"tag-ole-miss-rebels","18":"tag-ole-miss-rebels-basketball","19":"tag-regwall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114671274174045111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}