The No. 23 Ole Miss Rebels dropped a hard-fought game to the No. 1 Auburn Tigers on Saturday in Oxford, but the visiting head coach thinks very highly of the job that Chris Beard is doing with the Rebels on the hardwood.

Texas coach Rodney Terry, Chris Beard's former lead assistant at UT, says the Ole Miss coach remains one of "my really close friends in the business."

Chris Beard has the Ole Miss Rebels in the thick of the Southeastern Conference standings. He credits what he learned from Bob Knight.

"This was the second time that Auburn and Ole Miss have played in all these years, that both teams were ranked."We're going to continue to try and build our program where we're in the position we were today,