100 Years of Hoops: A Personal Perspective of Ole Miss Basketball

Author

Whitney Lauren Tarpy

Date of Award

2009

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Journalism

First Advisor

Brad Schultz

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

This thesis explores the past 100 years of Ole Miss Basketball and the role it plays in the University’s athletics and student-athletes’ lives. Through in-depth interviews with four former players, the study focuses on significant eras in the program’s history and how that person’s story fits in with Ole Miss history. After the research was conducted, it could easily be seen what Ole Miss basketball meant to that person during their collegiate career as well as the present. It can be concluded that although Ole Miss basketball does not have a powerful program in terms of national championships, conference titles or nationally-recognized players every season, the program still holds meaning to former athletes and is searching for its identity at Ole Miss and in a powerful athletic conference.

Recommended Citation

Tarpy, Whitney Lauren, "100 Years of Hoops: A Personal Perspective of Ole Miss Basketball" (2009). Honors Theses. 2135.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2135

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