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Eight players from the Ole Miss men's basketball team knelt during the national anthem before Saturday's home game against Georgia in response to a Confederacy rally near the arena.

Minutes before the game, both teams formed lines for the anthem. As "The Star-Spangled Banner" began, six Rebels players -- who appeared to be KJ Buffen, D.C. Davis, Brian Halums, Luis Rodriguez, Devontae Shuler and Bruce Stevens -- knelt one by one. Two more players -- appearing to be Breein Tyree and Franco Miller Jr. -- took a knee on the song's final line.

The game was being played while two pro-Confederacy groups organized a march onto the campus in Oxford, Mississippi.

"The majority of it was just that we saw one of our teammates doing it and didn't want him to be alone,'' Ole Miss scoring leader Tyree said after his team's 72-71 win. "We're just tired of these hate groups coming to our school and portraying our campus like we have these hate groups in our actual school."


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"We're just tired of these hate groups coming to our school and portraying our campus like we have these hate groups in our actual school."


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As an Ole Miss grad, I can't tell you how happy this makes me.

I understand that there were also student protests on campus against the confederate groups. The administration strongly condemned those groups and their activities, but advised students against going downtown, for fear of violence.


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