

Anyone purchasing a ticket to Friday's Senior Day football game can use that ticket for free admission to the men's basketball game. Tickets for the game can be purchased by calling 40 or by visiting.

Georgia State will return home to face IUPUI on Friday night at 7 p.m. Shipes, who got the start, finished with seven points on 3-of-4 shooting for the Panthers in 32 minutes. The Rebels continued to lead by five to eight points most of the second half before the Panthers final run. Dennis finished the game with nine points in 30 minutes off the bench. Junior Isaiah Dennis responded with a 5-0 run of his own to cut the lead back to two midway through the half. Ole Miss led by one, 35-34, before using an early 6-0 run to start the second half. Hollowell finished the half with 12 points. Keyed by five points from Hollowell, Georgia State used an 8-0 run in the final minutes to cut the deficit to just two before going into the half trailing 35-32. Leading 12-11, Ole Miss used a 6-0 run to push the lead to 18-11, a margin the Rebels kept most of the half before pushing it to 10 with just over three minutes to play. Tomasz Gielo added 13 points and six rebounds for the Rebels who shot 47.7 percent from the floor. Stefan Moody led Ole Miss with 21 points and five assists, going 7-of-8 from the free throw line. We have some things that need to be cleaned up, but that will come.” I really like our toughness and that will be important as the season goes on. “After playing some non-D1's, I still had some questions about our team, but many of those were answered tonight. “We didn't handle ourselves like a veteran team tonight,” head coach Ron Hunter said. In the match-up of NCAA tournament teams from a year ago, Georgia State fell to 2-1 while Ole Miss improved to 4-2 on the young season. The Panthers cut the deficit to two at 58-56 with 2:18 to play before the Rebels used a 6-0 run to push the lead back to eight before a Malik Benlevi 3-pointer. Georgia State trailed by seven, 56-49, with 7:51 to play, before limiting Ole Miss to just four free throws over the next six-plus minutes. However, the Panthers forced 15 Rebel turnovers which led to 14 points. Georgia State, which was held to just 41.2 percent shooting, was also outrebounded by Ole Miss 39-20. He went 6-of-8 from the free throw line, but Georgia State managed to go just 11-of-20 from the line as a team. Hollowell finished 7-of-14 from the floor, knocking down three of the Panthers six 3-pointers. The Panthers trailed by just two with 2:18 to play, but couldn't get over the hump in the final minutes. OXFORD, Miss.-Despite 23 points from redshirt-junior Jeremy Hollowell, Georgia State fell 68-59 to Ole Miss on Wednesday afternoon at the C.M. * Georgia State will return home to face IUPUI on Friday at 7 p.m. * The Panthers were limited to just 41.2 percent shooting, but forced 15 Rebel turnovers and trailed by just two with 2:18 to play. * Despite 23 points from Jeremy Hollowell, Georgia State fell at Ole Miss 68-59 on Wednesday afternoon.
