Now, Ole Miss will play the waiting game.

The Rebels were eliminated from the Southeastern Conference Tournament on Thursday with an 11-2 loss to LSU, completing a late-season slide in which they lost six of their last seven games.

With an RPI ranking of 23rd entering the tournament, as well as the reputation of the SEC on its side, Ole Miss (35-24) should be among the 64 teams invited to the NCAA Tournament when the field is announced Monday. Where it’ll go, what seed it will get and how quickly it can bounce back from its recent slump are all questions, however.

Ole Miss has been shut out twice during its skid, and scored a total of nine runs in the past six games.

“I think we feel OK as an offense. We have a lot of guys who are swinging it pretty well. But in the week leading up to the regional we have to work on finding whatever it is to get more runs across the plate,” said Ole Miss second baseman Alex Yarbrough, who had two hits in Thursday’s loss.

Even with their sluggish offense, the Rebels kept top-seeded LSU (43-15) within striking distance until the eighth inning. That’s when the Tigers scored five runs to take a 9-2 lead.

Jordy Snikeris drove in two runs with a double, then scored another on an RBI single by Raph Rhymes. Snikeris, who entered as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning, added a two-run homer in the ninth to make it 11-2. He went 2-for-2 with four RBIs.

LSU finished with 17 hits. Seven players had at least two each.