Cameron Larkin
Two Ole Miss Women’s Basketball players, senior guard/forward Madison Scott and senior guard Marquesha Davis, were named to the All-SEC First Team by the Southeastern Conference on Tuesday, March 5.
Alongside Scott and Davis, Alabama’s Sarah Ashlee Barker, LSU’s Aneesah Morrow and Angel Reese, South Carolina’s Kamila Cardoso, Auburn’s Honesty Scott-Grayson and Tennessee’s Rickea Jackson also received first-team recognition.
Only Ole Miss and LSU have two players on the first team.
Madison and Davis have spearheaded a 180-degree change in the Ole Miss Women’s Basketball program. Scott arrived in Oxford for the 2020-2021 season, and she has been a staple of the team ever since then. As a Lady Rebel, Scott averages of 10.7 points per game, 7.1 rebounds per game and about a steal and a block per game.
To go with her All-SEC first-team selection, Scott also was named to the All-SEC Defensive Team, accompanied by Missouri’s Mama Dembele, Vanderbilt’s Jordyn Cambridge, LSU’s Reese and South Carolina’s Cardoso.
Scott has been the defensive backbone for a team, whose motto is, “We defend.” Scott’s 6-foot-2-inch frame allows her to disrupt everything opposing offenses attempt to do.
“Madi means the world to this program. This is Madi’s program,” Ole Miss Women’s Basketball Head Coach Yolette McPhee-McCuin said to the media last year. “She is continuously getting better. She wants to put Ole Miss on the map. She wants to do it for her family, herself, and she is an ultimate joy to coach.”
On Wednesday, March 6, Scott announced on X that she is returning to play another year at Ole Miss.
“All I can say is I’m just so happy. I’m so blessed. I’m so grateful. I’m just happy to be an Ole Miss Rebel. This is what I came here for,” Scott said. “I’m just so happy, and I keep saying it because I believe it. We all believe it: We’re not done.”
Although Davis she has not been at Ole Miss for her whole college career, she has made a deep, lasting and genuine impact on the trajectory of women’s basketball in Oxford.
“(Marquesha Davis) is a bucket,” Coach Yo said. “I remember when she went into the portal, I saw her film, and I was unsure, because she didn’t have a motor. I sent it to one of my former assistant coaches, and he said, ‘If you don’t get that girl, you’re crazy.’ And it was one of the best decisions I have made since being here.”
Davis has been a steady producer and a consistent source of offense for the Rebel team. Her career averages as a Rebel are 12.2 points per game, 4.8 rebounds per game and just under one steal per game.
The former Arkansas Razorback has been known to lift Ole Miss out of some sticky situations on both the offensive and defensive ends of the court. Her tenacity shines through in all facets of the game.
As a tandem, Scott and Davis, who have played together for two years, have led Ole Miss to 20 wins in each of their past two seasons. Ole Miss has secured that feat overall for the third year in a row. The two simply know what it takes to win, and they have found out how to put Ole Miss Women’s Basketball on the national stage.
Now, the duo has found its way onto the All-SEC First Team, further cementing their legacies as Ole Miss Rebels and superstars in women’s college basketball.
