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Ole Miss vs. Arkansas game has brief power outage


There were no players shooting the lights out of the gym during Mississippi's game against Arkansas, but there was a brief power outage at C.M. 'Tad' Smith Coliseum in Saturday's game at Oxford, Miss., according to several media members covering the game.

The lights apparently went out with 5:37 left in the first half and Arkansas leading 24-21. Ole Miss went on to win 76-64. Eli and Archie Manning were at the game sitting courtside.

One tweet read: "#SECBasketballFever was so bad at Ole Miss/Arkansas, they pulled the plug on it. #lightsout"

The game was televised on SEC Network and led many viewers to voice their distaste with a delay in the game for several minutes.

Coincidentally, a similar power outage happened during an Ole Miss-Arkansas football game in 2007.