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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Carol Ross was hired to restore the Mississippi women's basketball team to national prominence. Now that she has, she's ready to do something else. Ole Miss announced Thursday that assistant coach Renee Ladner will replace Ross, who led the Rebels to postseason appearances in each of her four seasons and this year's NCAA national quarterfinals.
"It has taken it's toll," athletic director Pete Boone said of that reclamation. "She said that she was a sprinter and she knew it was a marathon race. She gave everything she had for as long as she could."
Boone took Ross' advice and hired Ladner, who played with Ross at Ole Miss in the late 1970s and early 1980s and coached on the staff of the two-time Southeastern Conference coach of the year at Florida and in Oxford.
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