Still, Beard isn't too concerned with positive momentum just yet. He's taking things one game at a time. “This is an 18-round fight. I don’t know much about momentum," Beard s

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."

Here's where Chris Beard's Ole Miss basketball team stands in the latest NCAA tournament bracket predictions after a loss at Missouri