For the first time ever both Ole Miss basketball teams are headed to the NCAA Tournament.

Ole Miss women’s basketball heard its name called on Selection Sunday for the fourth year in a row.

The appearance will be the 21st NCAA Tournament in program history. The Rebels are the No. 5 seed in the Spokane region and begin its tournament journey on Friday, March 21 in a first-round matchup in Waco, Texas, facing off against No. 12 seed Ball State.

If Ole Miss advances to the second round, it will either face off against No. 4 seed Baylor or No. 13 seed Grand Canyon. Game time has yet to be determined.

Ole Miss has posted four straight 20-win and 10-SEC win seasons. The Rebels also secured two AP top 10 wins for the first time since the 2006-07 season after defeating No. 8 Kentucky and No. 7 LSU in Baton Rouge.

Ole Miss boasts 11 Sweet Sixteens and five Elite Eights in its 50 years of women’s basketball, as McPhee-McCuin will head to the madness for her fifth time as a head coach.

Ole Miss men’s basketball team was awarded with a No. 6 seed in the upcoming 2025 NCAA Tournament, where they will match up with the winner of No. 11 seed San Diego State vs. No. 11 seed North Carolina on Friday, March 21 in Milwaukee, Wis. at Fiserv Forum.

The Rebels, who won 22 games including 10 in the SEC, were given the No. 6 seed in the South Region and are next to No. 3 Iowa State and No. 14 Lipscomb in their section of the bracket. This marks the 10th NCAA Tournament berth for the Ole Miss program, and the highest seed they’ve earned since 2001 when the Rebels were a three seed.

Among their victories during the regular season, Ole Miss picked up wins over fellow tournament teams Colorado State (No. 12 seed), BYU (No. 6 seed), Louisville (No. 8 seed), Georgia (No. 9 seed), Arkansas (No. 10 seed), Alabama (No. 2 seed), Texas (No. 11 seed), Kentucky (No. 3 seed), Oklahoma (No. 9 seed), and Tennessee (No. 2 seed). The Rebels were ranked as high as No. 16 in the nation by the AP this season and earned a pair of top-five wins over No. 4 Alabama and No. 4 Tennessee.

This marks the fourth program head coach Chris Beard has guided to the NCAA Tournament (also Little Rock, Texas Tech, and Texas), joining an exclusive group of active head coaches to hit that mark including Steve Alford, Rick Barnes, John Calipari, Fran McCaffery, Rick Pitino and Kelvin Sampson.