Lol you lost by 30+ points to BYU.

Well at least y'all won't have to worry about Bucknell this time around.

Maybe try to figure out a way to get yourselves off the 8/9 line before worrying about Mizzou, m'kay?

I can feel the absolute pain your projecting. Let it go BWillie. You guys will still probably make the NCAA tourney, but if not you could win the NIT!

There's always football season...

Think they'll have 4 guys likely to get drafted and still fail to make a bowl game again?

I'd bet everything I own on both of those things not happening. They're going to go back to the cellar of the Big 12 and they might luck into 2-3 wins next year.

Ain't it cool? We started 3 centers baby just to stick it to everyone!

Mizzou has had some quality players even during the Norm Stewart years...the shame was they would always stumble in the tourney....nothing worse than letting someone drive the length of the court to put up a layup that ends the game, and then your team becomes part of the never ending replay for years.

One of the purest shooting guards to ever come out of Mizzou was Jon Sunvold....unfortunately he played before the 3 point shot came into play.

Always loved Marcus Denmon too...his play against Kansas...and that 3/4 court shot against Memphis in the tourney were gold.

Some of the same things that were said about Marty could have also applied to Norm.

Marty put so much into beating the Raiders/Broncos and going after winning the West that they seemed less able to turn it up for the post-season. The accusation was that the priorities were out of whack.

Well that was Norm as well. Beat KU and win the conference -- those were his goals.

So their best teams accomplished those things then didn't have another gear when the Tourney started.

And then of course, like Marty, there was just some bad luck involved and occasionally odd decisions at the worst times.

Those 2 are far more alike than they are different.

I wish Mitchell would have went to Kansas. Would be a Bill Self love child.

He'd be on the bench behind KJ Adams.

As awesome as we played last night and as fun as it was I was ironically really impressed with Alabama.

They came out terrible but did a great job of keeping up shot for shot after that no matter how down bad we thought they were they kept coming back to make interesting.

Hell of a win for Mizzou though.

Like I said, both teams played incredibly well.

I hope Mizzou recognizes how well they played defensively even if the box score doesn't reflect it. They forced 'Bama into a TON of tough shots. Somehow they just hit the damn things.

If I were going to complain about anything on defense its that they did get a little aggressive crashing on the ball-handler and left a fair number of open perimeter looks in the last 10-12 minutes. For as many possessions as they really forced Alabama to work for it, there were probably 8-10 when they just left a shooter completely uncovered in the corner.

If there's anything that made this less than a perfect ballgame, it would've been the FT shooting and some occasionally spotty perimeter defense.

But man, that was a 90% effort. I really just struggle to think a team in all of college basketball has played a better single game than Mizzou played last night. I mean they were just outstanding.

Last night's performance, while marred by 16 missed free throws, was certainly noteworthy. If we set those free throws aside, it's fair to say we saw a glimpse of this team's potential, which seems to be exceptionally high.

We beat a top 5 team that's scored 98 points themselves by double digits. They shot 54% from the field, 42% from three-point range, and made 13 three-pointers.

Scoring 110 points in regulation against a top-5 team typically suggests a high volume of three-point shooting. However, this wasn't the case. We achieved this score with a 60.3% field goal percentage, 9 three-pointers (39% from three), and 31 made free throws out of 47 attempts.

Our three-point performance was consistent with our season averages (9 threes made, 37% from three). The high field goal percentage was largely due to Mark Mitchell's strong inside game and numerous fast-break points generated from 12 steals.

The free throw shooting is an area that needs improvement, but the overall performance might have been the best game I've ever seen Mizzou play if you don't include any cupcake games.

And you really kinda felt bad for Pierce.

He's hit 5 of his last 15 FT attempts and man, he missed BADLY on at least 3 of those FT attempts last night. I don't recall the 4th miss, but I know on three of them it was an obvious miss from the moment it left his hand.

He played really well in that game but the thing you'll remember from it is how ugly those FTs were.

Most everyone else did about what you'd expect from them from the stripe. Robinson missed his 2, but that's a small enough sample size to barely warrant mentioning. Mitchell I figure is gonna be 65-70% most nights; he's just not much of a pure shooter.

Perkins went 6 of 8 which is again right in line with what he typically does. Gray is Gray -- he's good for 1 of 2 just about every time.

The FT 'woes', such as they were, came down mostly to Pierce being lousy and Anthony not getting as many attempts as he often does while missing the 2 he had. Nothing else really all that earth shattering there. If they go 35 of 47 instead of 31/47, that puts them at 75% and that's more than reasonable in a college game. If Pierce goes 3/5 while Ant and Mitchell make 1 more each, that's where you find yourself.

I don't actually think the FT thing was THAT bad.

Denmon is probably my favorite tiger of all time. He was so clutch and played well off of English. He was a dude. Caleb Grill is climbing my ranks of favorite tigers though, he just does everything right.