You NEED to Watch Ole Miss Play This Week

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Rarely, if ever, when Bahamians in sports make history, do Bahamians get the chance to see it up-close and in-person. 

Mychel Thompson played in College in Minnesota before spending his NBA career in Portland, San Antonio and Los Angeles.

The Bahamas Olympic women’s Gold-Medal winning 4x100m team won their gold in Australia in 2000, the Men’s 2012 4×400 Olympic champs won in London… heck, if you ask Nassau native Deandre Ayton, he’ll say he grew up in Phoenix, and although a certain sect of Bahamians would find that offensive, it’s not at-all innacurate.

Bahamians achieve all sorts of accomplishments in sports, but they never get a chance to do it in their home country, in front of their compatriots. 

It’s not their fault or ours, high level sporting events rarely occur in The Bahamas, that’s just how things work. As a not-so great world leader once said, “them’s the breaks”.

In the history of US college sports, there has been one Bahamian who has ever coached a power-5 team sports that person is Yolette McPhee McCuin of the University of Mississippi women’s basketball team. She is Bahamian history.

Bahamians will have the rare opportunity to see one of our own international sporting figures make history in-person this upcoming week when Coach “Yo” and her Lady Rebels play in the Baha Mar Hoops event starting Monday.  

Bring a flag, show it off, be loud.

These occasions are rare so treasure it.