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Ole Miss Basketball To Host North Carolina State In First-Ever ACC/SEC Challenge

The Ole Miss Rebels are coming off a 12-21 season with a 3-15 record in Southeastern Conference play, but will look to turn the tide under new head coach Chris Beard.

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The Ole Miss Rebels just learned their Southeastern Conference opponents for the 2023-24 season, but now a nonconference opponent has been revealed.

Ole Miss will play North Carolina State in the first edition of ACC/SEC Challenge Nov. 28 at 9 p.m. at The Sandy and John Black Pavilion, according to a release. The ACC's teams used to play an annual game against a Big Ten opponent, but with the latter cutting ties with ESPN in a new media rights deal, the annual nonconference meetings between the two conferences was played for the final time last year.

This will be the fourth-ever meeting between the Rebels and the Wolfpack and the first since 2000. 

Ole Miss won the first matchup against North Carolina State en route to a 1928 Southern Conference title, while losing to the Wolfpack in the conference tournament 34-32 one year later. The latest meeting was a 77-54 loss in the 2000 National Invitation Tournament.

It was reported by CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein June 2 that Ole Miss will host Bryant on New Year's Eve. The Rebels were supposed to play in the Cayman Islands Classic, but will not compete in the tournament, according to a bracket on its website.

For its announced conference opponents for next season, Ole Miss will play Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Vanderbilt only at SJB Pavilion, while traveling to Georgia, Kentucky, LSU and Tennessee.

The Rebels will have both home and road games against Auburn, Mississippi State, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas A&M.

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