2026–27 season
Southern Miss
Golden Eagles · Sun Belt
- Record
- 2–1
- Unranked in the AP poll
- Projected seed
- Out
- Outside the projected field
- Efficiency
- -2.7
- No. 213 in Division I
- Head coach
- Jay Ladner
- Since 2019–20
- Home
- Hattiesburg, MS
- 5,864 mi from Detroit
- National titles
- 0
- Still chasing the first
Statistical profile
Percentiles compare this team with all 345 Division I teams. 100th is best in every row, including defense, where lower raw numbers are better: green bars are the top of the country, red the bottom, blue a style (pace, three-point rate) rather than a strength. Season totals include tournament games. Opponent-adjusted efficiency and schedule strength appear after 8 games; until then they swing too much to mean anything.
Efficiency
Scoring & shooting
Possessions
Defense & roster
Strengths and weaknesses
Flagged automatically when a stat sits in the top or bottom 15% of all 345 Division I teams.
- WeaknessTurnover-proneTurnover rate: 24.0%4th
- StrengthSmothers three-point shootersOpponent 3P %: 23.0%94th
Tournament history
Every NCAA tournament appearance since 2002, with who Southern Miss beat and who ended the run.
Appearances
1
Record
0–1
Sweet 16s
0
Final Fours
0
Titles
0
- 20129Round of 64Lost to 8 Kansas St 70–64. Bracket
Roster
Season per-game stats for every player who appeared.
- Leading scorer
- Anthony Igiede
- 10.5 ppg
- Tallest
- Max Blank
- 7′0″
- Best at the line
- —
- —
- Longest in program
- Brewer Carruth
- 3 seasons
| Player | WT | Yrs | GP | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2Jalyke Gaines-WyattPoint Guard · Wyandanch, NY | 6′0″ | 194 | 1 | 2 | 24.5 | 8.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 27.3 | 83.3 | 17.6 |
| 8Anthony Igiede · Baton Rouge, LA | 6′5″ | 200 | 1 | 2 | 23.5 | 10.5 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 26.6 |
| 10Isaac TaverasGuard · Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 6′6″ | 185 | 2 | 2 | 20.0 | 8.5 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 33.3 | 50.0 | 25.2 |
| 20Brandon WestonGuard · Brooklyn, NY | 6′5″ | 210 | 1 | 2 | 19.0 | 9.0 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 50.0 | 83.3 | 17.8 |
| 6Mike Montano · Alexandria, VA | 6′8″ | 224 | 1 | 2 | 19.0 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 2.0 | 16.7 | 100.0 | 19.9 |
| 49Max Blank · Nurnberg, Germany | 7′0″ | 264 | 1 | 2 | 16.0 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 6.9 |
| 24Cameron WallaceForward · Little Rock, AR | 6′8″ | 228 | 1 | 2 | 15.5 | 6.5 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 30.3 |
| 0Chandler WattsGuard · Clermont, FL | 6′6″ | 212 | 2 | 2 | 11.5 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 13.4 |
| 1Camden CereseGuard · Roselle, IL | 6′4″ | 200 | 1 | 2 | 11.5 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 13.8 |
| 23Brewer CarruthGuard · Lake Dixie Springs, MS | 6′5″ | 210 | 3 | 2 | 11.0 | 1.5 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 8.4 |
| 4Elliot Tulip · Meridian, MS | 6′6″ | 210 | 1 | 2 | 7.0 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 25.0 | 66.7 | 27.5 |
| 22Marcus OverstreetForward · Chicago, IL | 6′9″ | 230 | 1 | 2 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 15.4 |
| 5DeAndre Harvey · Williston, FL | 6′4″ | 204 | 1 | 2 | 5.5 | 4.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 33.1 |
| 13Dorion Bowen · Memphis, TN | 6′6″ | 198 | 1 | 2 | 5.0 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 27.2 |
| 7Fallou DiagneForward · Dakar, Senegal | 6′11″ | 214 | 2 | 2 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.6 |
| 11Brooks RobertsGuard | 6′2″ | — | 1 | 1 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 26.9 |
| 3Cy Merrett · New Orleans, LA | 6′5″ | 200 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Yrs = seasons with this program (transfers count from their arrival). Headshots appear once rights-cleared images are available.
Season schedule
Every game with consensus closing lines (median across sportsbooks) and against-the-spread results.
ATS overall
1–1
ATS as favorite
0–1
ATS as underdog
1–0
ATS neutral court
0–0
ATS vs. tournament teams
1–0
ATS vs. ranked teams
0–0
Over / under
1–1
| Date | Opponent | Result | Spread | Total | ATS | O/U |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2 | vsTOUTougaloo | W82–35 | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 6 | @ISUIowa State5 | L57–83 | +31.25 | 145.75 | Cover | Under |
| Nov 11 | vsJACJackson State | W84–80OT | -8.5 | 151.25 | Miss | Over |
| Nov 13 | @TEXTexas State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 17 | vsUT UT Arlington | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 19 | @GRAGrambling | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 21 | NNICNicholls | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 22 | NVALValparaiso | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Nov 29 | vsGRAGrambling | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 2 | vsTULTulane | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 5 | @OREOregon State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 10 | @MCNMcNeese11 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 14 | vstuskegee | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 19 | vsJAMJames Madison | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 22 | NOLEOle Miss8 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Dec 31 | @georgia-state | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 2 | @GA Georgia Southern | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 7 | vsCOACoastal Carolina | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 9 | vsOLDOld Dominion | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 13 | vsTROYTroy | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 16 | @ARKArkansas State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 20 | vsUL UL Monroe | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 23 | @SOUSouth Alabama | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 28 | @LOULouisiana Tech | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Jan 30 | vsLOULouisiana | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 6 | @APPApp State14 | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 11 | vsLOULouisiana Tech | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 13 | @LOULouisiana | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 17 | @UL UL Monroe | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 20 | @TROYTroy | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 24 | vsARKArkansas State | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |
| Feb 26 | vsSOUSouth Alabama | Scheduled | — | — | — | — |