Southern Miss has dealt with several losing streaks this season. Finally, it’s learning how to cope with winning some games.

The Lady Eagles shot 50 percent for the third consecutive game, and used a 23-point effort from Tanecka Carey to beat East Carolina 67-57 on Sunday afternoon in Hattiesburg.

Southern Miss (8-15, 2-8 Conference USA) won back-to-back games for only the third time this season. It had snapped an eight-game losing streak by beating Memphis on Thursday.

USM built a 13-point lead at halftime against East Carolina and never led by less than 12 in the second half. Jamierra Faulkner finished with 15 points, seven rebounds and seven assists for USM, Nitesha Pierece had 11 points and Ance Celmina scored 10.

Shala Hodges led East Carolina (6-16, 0-9) with 16 points.

Florida 84, Ole Miss 55

Senior guard Lanita Bartley had a game-high 17 points and 10 rebounds for her first career double-double, and Florida (15-8, 5-5 Southeastern Conference) rolled to an easy win over Ole Miss (12-12, 2-9).

The 29-point margin of victory was Florida’s biggest in an SEC game since 2001.

Ole Miss shot just 34.4 percent for the game, and endured a 2-for-19 stretch from the field in the first half. Florida took advantage of the Lady Rebels’ dry spell to take a 41-26 lead at halftime.

Valencia McFarland led Ole Miss with 11 points and Tia Faleru had 10 points and seven rebounds. Azania Stewart and Brittany Shine scored 14 points apiece for Florida.

Vanderbilt 65, Mississippi St. 59

Stephanie Holzer had 21 points and 13 rebounds, Christina Foggie added 17 points, and Vanderbilt (18-15, 6-4 SEC) used a 7-0 run late in the game to pull away from pesky Mississippi State (13-10, 3-7).

Mississippi State overcame an 11-point deficit in the first half to get within three by halftime, and tied the game at 40 on a basket by Diamber Johnson with 11:59 to play. Vanderbilt eased ahead after that, but State pulled even again on a jumper by Catina Bett with 4:05 left.

Finally, Vanderbilt surged ahead to stay. Holzer’s jumper with 3:09 left broke a 54-all tie and triggered the 7-0 run that decided the game. State went two minutes without scoring and didn’t get closer than five points the rest of the way.

Johnson led Mississippi State with 17 points and Bett scored 16.

LSU 61, Kentucky 51

Adrienne Webb scored 16 of her 19 points in the second half and LSU snapped No. 6 Kentucky’s 10-game winning streak.

LaSondra Barrett scored all of her 12 points in the final 20 minutes for the Lady Tigers (15-8, 5-5 SEC), who came in having lost five of six games but rarely trailed as the Wildcats managed to shoot only 35 percent (21-of-60).

A’dia Mathies scored all of her 12 points in the second half as she tried to keep Kentucky (21-3, 10-1) unbeaten in league play. Keyla Snowden added 11 points for the Wildcats, who came in having won 13 straight SEC games dating to last season.

Tennessee 82, Auburn 61

Glory Johnson had 14 points and 11 rebounds to help No. 8 Tennessee beat Auburn.

The Lady Volunteers (17-6, 8-2 SEC) turned 23 Auburn turnovers into 21 points and outshot the Tigers (11-13, 3-8) 50 percent to 37 percent in the second half.