For the first time since December 2015, the Ole Miss men’s basketball team will play a game in the Tad Smith Coliseum, hosting Sam Houston State on Friday, November 17 at 8 p.m. for their first Throwback Game in the Tad Pad, presented by Cellular South, now C Spire. The team will be honoring former head coach Rob Evans, who won national and conference coach of the year honors in 1997 and spent six seasons at the helm in Oxford.