While those teams have had a phenomenal season, the Ole Miss Rebels also made some noise before being eliminated. Ole Miss, led by head coach Chris Beard, made a run to the Sweet

The last at-large team in the NCAA field, UNC couldn’t replicate its wire-to-wire spirited play from its First-Four win. The 11th-seeded Tar Heels fell behind early to No. 6 Ole Miss and never fully recovered.

The Ole Miss Rebels wrapped up the 2024-25 season on Friday in the Sweet 16 following a loss to the top-seeded UCLA Bruins in Spokane. Head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin and Co. will now enter a critical offseason in Oxford with the program looking to reconstruct the roster.

The No. 6 seed Ole Miss Rebels (23-11, 10-8 SEC) survived and will advance to the round of 32 in the NCAA tournament after defeating the No. 11 seed North Carolina Tar Heels (23-14, 13-7 ACC) 71-64, Friday afternoon at Fiserv Forum. The victory marks the first tournament win for the Rebels since March 17, 2015.