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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
 Will Marshall Henderson light up Kentucky?
By Joe Kaiser

 Ole Miss junior Marshall Henderson doesn't shy away from the big moment, and tonight he could very well find himself in another as No. 16 Rebels host Kentucky on ESPN. Will the SEC's leading scorer be the next guard to put up crooked numbers against the young and inexperienced Wildcats?

There's reason to believe that he could. ESPN's Seth Greenberg astutely points out today that one of UK's biggest issues this season stems from its lack of a lockdown defender, and that's true particularly on the perimeter. That was evident earlier this month when Texas A&M's Elston Turner poured in 40 points to lead the Aggies over the Wildcats.

"They don't have an invested player like [Darius] Miller who has the toughness, strength and experience to take on the opponent's best perimeter player," Greenberg writes. "They will definitely be challenged by one of the country's most confident and aggressive perimeter scorers in Ole Miss' Marshall Henderson in Tuesday night's matchup."

Here's our own Eamonn Brennan with more on what has the potential to be a wildly entertaining matchup tonight.

Eamonn Brennan
Henderson has a chance to introduce himself to the nation
"Henderson is one of the country's true gunners: He's shot 207 3s already this season (compared to just 66 2-point shots), third most in the country. He's making 35.7 percent of those 3s, leads the SEC in scoring and is taking 30.5 percent of Ole Miss' shots. ... More than anything, though, you probably know Henderson because of his antics. He talks. He talks a lot. At the end of the Auburn game, when he made the game-winning free throws, he ran to the Tigers' student section, lustily popped his jersey and pounded his chest and catalyzed one of the purest expressions of in-game basketball crowd hilarity I've ever seen. Alongside the already solid interior players Ole Miss had before he arrived, Henderson has lifted the Rebels into SEC contention. Now Tuesday night, on national television, against the defending champions, Henderson has a chance to not only showcase his skill but to introduce his insanity to a much wider audience."