Chris Beard has his second Ole Miss basketball team ranked No. 17 nationally in the latest Associated Press basketball poll. Beard, whose first Ole Miss team won 20 games, has lost only once and that by two points to Purdue, which lost in the national championship game last season. Beard talks about his team’s early success and what it faces in the SEC, which boasts five of the top seven ranked teams in college basketball.

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Rick Cleveland, a native of Hattiesburg and resident of Jackson, has been Mississippi Today’s sports columnist since 2016. A graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor’s in journalism, Rick has worked for the Hattiesburg American, Monroe (La.) News Star World, Jackson Daily News and Clarion Ledger. He served four years as executive director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame before joining Mississippi Today. His work as a syndicated columnist and celebrated sports writer has appeared in numerous magazines, periodicals and newspapers. Rick has been recognized 14 times as Mississippi Sports Writer of the Year and has been inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, the Hattiesburg Hall of Fame, the USM Alumni Hall of Fame and the Mississippi Press Association Hall of Fame.

Tyler Cleveland is a senior reporter for Scorebook Live and the co-host of Mississippi Today’s Crooked Letter Sports Podcast.





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