Always good to win on the road in the conference. Obviously losing Burnett hurt Ole Miss, but we did win by 20, and we built a 8-10 point lead in the 1st half with him in there. All of our starters played well, imo. JJ hitting from outside early made a huge difference.

I think you overrate Edwards' rebounding. He's OK, but I wouldn't go so far as to say "very good". In rebounds per minute, he's about mid-pack on the team among guys you expect to rebound - well behind Ogbeide & Maten and about even with Parker, and slightly ahead of only Geno, Diatta & Kessler (JJ, Harris, Jackson & Wilridge you don't expect a lot of rebounds). His other stats per minute are near the bottom of the team. His production just does not justify the number of minutes he's getting.

Ogbeide, as usual, made things really tough against their bigs, and like you say Maten had a solid game.

So we're sitting at 3-1 in conference with the only loss to undefeated (in conf.) USC. We got a tough schedule draw this year - we play all of the top 3 teams twice - but if we keep playing like last night, we'll be OK.