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WATCH: Ole Miss' Coach Yo Puts Women's Basketball on Notice After Massive Upset Win vs. No. 1 Stanford

Ole Miss shocked the women's college basketball world on Sunday night, and 'Coach Yo' has the nation on notice.

Matt Galatzan

The Ole Miss Rebels women's basketball team pulled off arguably the biggest upset in (men's or women's) program history on Sunday night, taking down the No. 1 seeded and heavily favored Stanford Cardinal to advance to the Sweet 16. 

The Rebels 54-49 on Sunday night, also kept the historic Cardinal program out of the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2007.

And following the win Ole Miss head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin - or Coach Yo as she has become affectionately known - put the nation on notice in the process in an emotional post-game interview. 

"Just an incredible amount of gratitude," she said. 'I'd just like to thank my lord and savior Jesus Christ. I'd like to thank my family and this team. We just love each other so much. We've been waiting for a big one. And I'm on social media, and everyone said, 'Yo can't win the big one,' and so for our team to do this, I'm just full of gratitude."

And the Rebels did it by playing the Coach Yo brand of basketball to boot - with defense, holding the Cardinal to just 32.7-percent shooting from the floor. 

Coach Yo wasn't done there, however, telling ESPN that, while she knows she wasn't necessarily the first choice for the Rebels in their head coaching search, she was the right one for the program.

"I wasn't Ole Miss' first choice," she told ESPN. "But I was the right one. And I was naive enough to think that I could do it."

Now, heading to Seattle for their first Sweet 16 since 2007, Coach Yo and her Rebels will await the winner of No. 4 seed Louisville and No. 5 seed Texas on Monday night.

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MATT GALATZAN

Matt Galatzan the Editor-In-Chief of TheGroveReport.com. Galatzan graduated from the University of Mississippi, where he studied integrated marketing communications, with minors in journalism and business administration. Galatzan started in the sports journalism industry under Mike Fisher at DallasBasketball.com in 2014, which at the time was part of the 247Sports network. He also spent two years covering the SMU Mustangs for PonyStampede.com on the 247Sports network. When DallasBasketball.com and CowboysCountry.com moved over to Sports Illustrated's Fan Nation network in 2020, Galatzan followed suit, eventually being taking over as the Managing Editor and Publisher of LonghornsCountry.com and AllAggies.com a year later. Through the years, Galatzan has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, former Longhorns players Dan Neil and Phil Dawson, and many other recruits, and current/former players for each of the teams he has covered. Galatzan is also a full-time employee in the digital media department for Audacy and KRLD FM's 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, which is the official radio home of the Dallas Cowboys. You can find Galatzan on all major social media channels.

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