BancorpSouth, Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi. As of March 2012, it had nearly $13.3billion in assets. The company has over 4400 employees.
University of Mississippi sports teams, originally known as the "Mississippi Flood", were re-named the Rebels in 1936 and compete in the twelve-member Southeastern Conference of the NCAA's Division I. The school's colors are cardinal red and navy blue , purposely chosen to mirror the school colors of Harvard and Yale, respectively. With a long history in intercollegiate athletics , the university competes in 18 men's and women's sports. Student-athletes, 630 in all, received all-conference academic honors from 1995–2004.