No. 19 Ole Miss Falls 66-58 to Texas A&M on Senior Day

No. 19 Ole Miss fell at home to Texas A&M, 66-58, in the Rebels’ regular-season finale and Senior Day at SJB Pavilion in Oxford on Sunday, March 1, 2026, a defeat that closed out the home slate and carried implications for SEC tournament positioning.

The loss left Ole Miss with a late-season slide and a spot in the conference bracket. The Daily Mississippian reported Ole Miss as the No. 7 seed in the SEC Tournament and listed the Lady Rebels at 21-9 overall and 8-8 in SEC play; OleMissSports’ game capture shows the team at 21-10, 8-8 SEC while listing Texas A&M at 14-11, 7-9 SEC. The differing totals appear in the supplied reports and leave the final regular-season tally unclear in the immediate aftermath.

Sunday’s Senior Day defeat extended a difficult stretch for the Rebels. The Daily Mississippian noted Ole Miss lost its penultimate regular-season game at Florida on Feb. 26, 74-67, and that the losing streak had extended to four games. In Gainesville, guard Tianna Thompson led Ole Miss with 25 points and shot 7-of-11 from three, draining four of those triples in the first half and finishing the half with 14 points. The Daily Mississippian also reported guard Sira Thienou did not play in the Florida game.

Head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin framed the moment for the program after the Florida loss, a perspective that carries into the Texas A&M result. “I hate that we lost, but I’ve been doing this so long. I just know this isn’t the end of the story,” McPhee-McCuin said. “For the people that feel disappointed, it seems like we’re on a decline right now, (but) I like to argue differently.”

OleMissSports’ game page headline reads “No. 19 Women’s Basketball Falls to Texas A&M” with the March 1 date, and the site lists game leaders and players mentioned including Cotie McMahon, Tianna Thompson, Latasha Lattimore, Kaitlin Peterson, Christeen Iwuala, Jayla Murray, Debreasha Powe, J'Adore Young and “KP.” The official athletics capture does not provide a full box score in the supplied materials, so individual March 1 statistics beyond the final 66-58 score are not available in the collected reports.

Looking ahead, SEC Tournament play runs March 4-8, 2026, in Greenville, S.C., with Ole Miss slated as the No. 7 seed to play the winner of No. 15 Auburn or No. 10 Texas A&M at 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 5, with the game broadcast on SEC Network as reported by The Daily Mississippian and reflected on OleMissSports.

For historical context, schedule entries from the prior season as captured in the supplied material read: “November 14, 2024 4:30 pm, ESPN+ | No. 19 | at Delaware State | W 80–42 | 2–1 | 18 – Jacobs | 9 – Todd-Williams | 7 – Deans | Memorial Hall (Delaware State) (300) Dover, DE”; “November 18, 2024 11:00 am, SECN+/ESPN+ | No. 17 | Jackson State | W 76–44 | 3–1 | 16 – Thienou | 6 – Tied | 5 – Scott | SJB Pavilion (8,653) Oxford, MS”; “November 25, 2024 4:00 pm, FloHoops | No. 18 | vs. Boston College Baha Mar Championship semifinals | W 92–55 | 4–1 | 17 – Todd-Williams | 11 – Jacobs | 5 – Todd-Williams | Baha Mar Convention Center (567) Nassau, Bahamas”; “November 27, 2024 6:30 pm, FloHoops | No. 18 | vs. No. 2 UConn Baha Mar Championship game | L 60–73 | 4–2 | 17 – Deans | 7 – Scott | 6 – Scott | Baha Mar Convention Center (1,507) Nassau, Bahamas”; “January 9, 2025 6:30 pm, SECN+/ESPN+ | Vanderbilt | W 87–59 | 11–4 (2–1) | 25 – Todd-Williams | 6 – Todd-Williams | 7 – Tied | SJB Pavilion (3,825) Oxford, MS”; “January 12, 2025 3:00 pm, SECN+/ESPN+ | No. 18 Alabama | L 78–84 | 11–5 (2–2) | 21 – Jacobs | 12 – Jacobs | 5 – Scott | SJB Pavilion (7,844) Oxford, MS”; “January 16, 2025 8:00 pm, SECN | Florida | W 94–69 | 12–5 (3–2) | 29 – Thienou | 6 – Tied | 6 – Todd-Williams | SJB Pavilion (2,884) Oxford, MS”; “January 19, 2025 2:00 pm, SECN | at Mississippi State | W 71–63 | 13–5 (4–2) | 30 – Scott | 8 – Jacobs | 4 – Tied | Humphrey Coliseum (6,925) Starkville, MS”; “January 26, 2025 2:00 pm, ESPN | No. 7 Texas | L 58–61 | 13–6 (4–3) | 17 – Scott | 7 – Jacobs | 3 – Tied | SJB Pavilion (4,073) Oxford, MS”; “January 30, 2025 5:00 pm, SECN+/ESPN+ | at Georgia | W 63–58 | 14–6 (5–3) | 19 – Scott | 8 – Tied | 5 – Scott | Stegeman Coliseum (2,262) Athens, GA”; “February 2, 2025 2:00 pm, SECN+/ESPN+ | at No. 23 Vanderbilt | W 76–61 | 15–6 (6–3) | 24 – Jacobs | 10 – Jacobs | 3 – Tied | Memorial Gymnasium (6,021) Nashville, TN”; “February 6, 2025 6:30 pm, SECN+/ESPN+ | No. 15 Oklahoma | L 56–66 | 15–7 (6–4) | 15 – Jacobs | 9 – Iwuala | 4 – Sadler | SJB Pavilion (2,720) Oxford, MS”; “February 10, 2025 6:00 pm, ESPN2 | No. 8 Kentucky | W 66–57 | 16–7 (7–4) | 22 – Scott | 9 – Tied | 4 – Todd-Williams | SJB Pavilion (2,875) Oxford, MS”.

An unrelated headline that appeared among the collected materials was “Baptist Memorial Hospital puts patient care first during historic storm” from The Daily Mississippian; that story is separate from the Ole Miss basketball coverage.