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Weather issues push Vandy-Ole Miss women’s basketball game to Friday at Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — No. 5 Vanderbilt and No. 17 Mississippi have pushed back their women’s basketball game to Friday and relocated it to Birmingham, Alabama.

This game originally had been set for Thursday at Oxford, Mississippi. It’s being moved because of icy conditions in Mississippi from the weekend’s winter storm.

Tip-off is at 2 p.m. local time (3 p.m. Eastern) at Birmingham’s Legacy Arena. Admission is free, and all seating will be general admission.

Vanderbilt (20-1, 6-1 Southeastern Conference) will be coming off its first loss of the season. The Commodores fell 103-74 at No. 2 South Carolina on Sunday.

Ole Miss (17-4, 4-2) hasn’t played since winning 82-61 at Missouri on Thursday. A scheduled Monday home game with No. 17 Tennessee was postponed because of the weather conditions.

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Hawkeyes are set to play Vanderbilt in a November women’s basketball game in Sioux City, Iowa

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Vanderbilt and Iowa, both ranked in the top 10 late last season, will meet in a women's basketball game early next season in northwest Iowa, the schools announced Tuesday. The neutral-site game is set for Nov. 15 at the Tyson Events Center, which is 290 miles from Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City. Vanderbilt is 4-0 all-time against the Hawkeyes. This will be the teams' first meeting since 1997. The Commodores are expected to return national scoring leader Mikayla Blakes. She averaged 27 points per game and was Southeastern Conference player of the year. Vanderbilt was ranked as high as No. 5 and finished No. 10 with a 29-5 record after reaching the NCAA Sweet 16.
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