Terrible ****ing call on that fifth foul got A Rob. Looked like a good block to me.

I've never seen so many offensive fouls called on one team in my life. That was legit, but the others weren't.

Wtf is that call on Mark Mitchell? These ****ing refs need shot in their heads.

Tamar Bates is a ****ing stud.

What a ****ing horse shit ruling. Should be a foul, but instead the fouling team gets the ball under their basket.

Wow! SMH. Ole Miss ball because he fouled

Bad play by Grill right there. Damn.

Way to knock down both free throws

That's not getting overturned

Nice defense in the paint there

Nice win! I wish that they could have beaten the dang Longhorns. That one will probably knock them out of the top 25 despite this win

We are a good team. Can beat any team on any given day.

Schedule coming up is brutal. Need to go 2-1

They're 16-4 with yet another top 25 win. Texas beating aTm should help them too.

They're a clear top 20 team

I missed the game, when I saw Hamas was the last post I thought it was an L. ROFL

Caleb Grill might be in my top 5 favorite tigers in my lifetime

Same song and story the sec refs suck ass

This Mizzou team can get off to one hell of a start lol

It's really cool, as a human, to see Caleb Grill having this season.

Kid has had some obstacles, and it is always fun to see someone overcome difficulties.

This team can be a LOT of fun. I really like the Gray-Mitchell-Pierce-Grill-Robinson or Perkins lineup. Lot of size, athleticism, and offensive ability with that group. Only real weak link is Grill as on-ball defender.

So they're just going to whistle us every time we breathe on them?

OMG, Gray made both FT's!

I think you guys are actually good.

It would appear so.

Holy shit, Grill is en fuego!

Gates is finding some nice rotations for his guys. There is definitely some real talent there.

Another good game today. Such an amazing turn around from last year. Going from winless in the SEC to winning against 4 ranked opponents so far. How far can this team go in the tournament? At this rate, sweet 16 is realistic.

They kicked ass today.

Hoops are fun again.

Damnnnn. Just watched it. We might make some noise in the tourney this year. That was beyond impressive.

Next two are pretty tough. If we can somehow beat Tennessee watch out.

If they wouldn't have gone completely cold against Texas, then they'd be top 10 next week.

Who was the idiot that suggested Gates was a one-trick pony, or some such?

Probably Pepe Silva, he's usually pretty stupid when it comes to this stuff.

I on the other hand have never said a bad thing about Dennis Gates. He's my favorite Mizzou coach ever.

What will we be ranked this week? Top 15? I’m thinking switch with miss state at 13

Lol. Yeah. There was a lot of hate for Gates with going winless in the SEC last year. Even though we knew that it would it be a down year, I don't think anyone expected that. But he's turned it around this year. I, for one, am glad that we have Gates.

That team is probably a lot different if Caleb Grill doesn’t get hurt + experience a mental health crisis, and Tonje doesn’t get hurt.

Everything came together perfectly for this squad.

Gray has given them the size, physicality, defense and rebounding they lacked. And he’s bad-ass defending the pick and roll.

Mitchell is the perfect F for Gates. Big and athletic, can defend bigs and rebound, but also has wing skills and can defend the wing in switch situations or drive on bigger guys.

Perkins is the perfect combo guard to pair with Ant. Physical, can handle, gives them a really nice floor for PG performance game in, game out.

The. You throw in Pierce and Ant taking nice steps forward, and Grill getting healthy and shooting like he’s Larry Curry or something, and even a few freshmen giving them good minutes when needed, and it’s a deep, talented squad with a lot of depth.

I hate to break it to you guys but Caleb Grill is not this good. He will shoot you out of some games on his own. But hes streaky and hes hot. Gotta hope for the best.

I hate to break it to you, but that’s college basketball. It’s the same with that Hunter Dickinson guy on KU. He can get lucky every now and then and put together a good stat line, and then disappear completely against teams like Creighton or in big games in Ames.

Well yeah I don't expect he will keep shooting 49% from 3, but I bet he finishes at worst in the low 40%s. He's clearly gotten alot better than he was in years past.

I hate to break it to you but you're always wrong about everything.

Bwillie is the one that said he can't coach defense. I never said one trick pony.

We got ranked 15th which is an absolute joke. One spot ahead of kansas one spot behind Kentucky. We play number 4 ranked Tennessee Wednesday and number 10 ranked a&m Saturday. Big games this week, need to go 1-1 at least. This conference is no joke.

Gotta beat A&M.

If you beat Tennessee, this is a no-shit potential Final 4 team. If you can go into Knoxville and win that game, there's not a game you CAN'T win. You can beat anyone.

Now I'm not gonna get THAT optimistic so I harbor few illusions about beating TN.

But that A&M game is a real stress test moment. At home with a chance to prove you're a legitimate top 4 seed in the tournament.

You make it to that 2 or 3 line and anything can happen. You hang tough with TN and beat A&M and that's absolutely on the table.

But....Mizzou.

We got but Mizzou'd in Texas just recently. It's so hard to get too excited about anything Mizzou. Lol

Thats college basketball though? Right? Was that "Mizzou'd" to have an off night on a conference road game in college basketball?

Pretty much lol. They had a chance to be a top 10 team and really set themselves up for a really nice seed in the tourney.

Don't they still have that chance?

Oh yeah definitely, but that loss made it harder.

Beating Tennessee will do it pretty quickly

Welp. 34-28 against #4 TN at the half.

Yeah - win or lose, this is a legit squad.

They're gonna shit the bed at least one more time this year but on any given night they seem to be able to beat anyone in the country. And they can do it in different ways. We've seen them play great defense, get hot from deep, do it inside, drive/dish, win with ball movement.

They don't seem to have only one way to win. I'd say their ceiling depends on their shooting but that goes for literally every team in the country.

It's just a very good basketball team.

Hold on for twenty minutes and the story of this season takes a dramatic turn as far as our tournament run.

Hold on tonight and win on Saturday and this is a top 10 team next week.

The white boys always whip up on Mizzou.

Of course they can't miss a shot

80 percent from 3.

That's a horse shit foul call

That's horseshit. ****ing refs.

Ant needs to chill the **** out with the foul trouble. He barely gets any playing time because seems to be in foul trouble every game.

Barrett is gonna be good but he’s just young right now. Perkins just can’t quite handle the ball good enough for a pg. we need Ant to play because he can handle and can shoot from deep which it looks like Barrett can’t yet. He missed a big three that would’ve cut it to a 3 point game late and it looked ugly on a great look from Grill.

Also we have to hit our free throws for the love of God. Killed us last night. Well that and the number four team on the road shooting over 70% from three.

Disappointed that we lost, but I expected it. I was just hoping that we would keep it competitive and we did. They really had to work for that victory. No shame in losing on the road to the #4 team. Our guys know that could have and should have won that game.

Now, take care of business against A&M on Saturday.

Yeah - the Texas game and TN game both were times when I'm watching Barrett out there as the game is in the balance thinking "Man, we HAVE to get this kid off the floor..."

And sho 'nuff, he duffs a look he really needed to hit for a shot at winning that game. You'd have heard buttholes pucker in Knoxville from all the way in CoMo had that shot fallen and we HAVE the guys to hit it. We just didn't put it in their hands.

Barrett is still a fun young prospect, but he's not ready. We need to stop acting like he is.

The 2nd run really hurt.

You knew you weren't getting through a road game against a top 5 team without them putting on a run. Suddenly we went from up 10 to down 7ish. Then we pulled it to within 3 and lost the plot again.

They answered the first run and that's what good teams do to win those tough road games. But then they allowed the 2nd run and you really just can't do that against excellent teams on the road.

Oh well -- shouldn't be any harm done. They acquitted themselves nicely in that game and battled their asses off to the end. Tennessee is good and we didn't play quite well enough for the full 40 minutes to steal it. Shit happens.

Ant should have been playing more, but he only had 6 minutes on the floor because he keeps ****ing fouling lol. He's had 30 fouls in his last 8 games, so he's averaging about 4 fouls a game. Idk what's gotten info him recently, because he only had 32 fouls in the 13 games before this stretch. Seems the SEC officials are calling more fouls.

We need him on the court, because he's our best ball handler and the guy had 4 fouls in 6 minutes of play time lol. That's insane.

Man we have some really bad FT shooters on this team.

Also, while looking at stats I ran across a name that I had almost forgot was on the team. Aiden Shaw. That guy has become demoted to bench warmer. He's gotten 17 min in conference play. I'm betting he transfers out.

Josh Gray is bad. Other than him, there isn't an egregiously bad FT shooter on the squad.

What killed them last night was literally the best FT shooter in the conference missing two front ends when they were struggling on offense.

That game plays out a little differently down the stretch if all you change is Bates converting all 4 of those FTs like you'd expect, instead of them ending up as 0-2.

Shaw's role has been sniped by Mark Mitchell and Trent Pierce. Each of those guys can give you everything Shaw offers on defense (size, rebounding, athleticism, length) while also offering nice offensive contributions (Pierce is a legit inside-outside guy, Mitchell can drive and create).

What was funny (in a sad way) was Gray went 3-4 during the same stretch that Bates went 0-2. So maybe it all evened out in the end?

There are many 4 star recruits that pull a Glen Dandrige at Mizzou, its baffling.

It's not just Mizzou.

There are 100+ 4* recruits every year. There AIN'T that many great players that come into the NCAA every season.

Maybe a quarter of those guys actually pan out anywhere near their prospect standing. I wouldn't worry a ton about it -- it's pretty rare that any of them leave Mizzou and amount to much either.

Just the nature of the beast. These kids are 17/18 years old when they get these ranks. We really don't know dick about how they'll develop when they're stuck in a grownups world and told its time to sink or swim.

Yeah, I'm not remotely worried about losing Shaw. I honest to God forget he was on the team lol. He just hasn't played at all with the big boys.

I mean, you'd expect him to go 2-4 there (it also helps that his setup is so unique he's leading the world in drawn lane violations - he gets a do-over on about 1/4 of his attempts, it seems like).

So you're +1 over expectation there, but you'd expect Bates to make 4/4. So -4. Still a net loss.

When Mitchell isn't effective and Robinson is in foul trouble we lose the two most productive guys in terms of getting to the rim on offense. Mitchell hasn't been as effective since we started conference play. There are so many solid defensive bigs in the SEC that he can't get around like he did non-SEC teams.

I don't ever remember seeing a league that has as many good teams as the SEC does right now. They're like the Big East and ACC of the past, but they're a 16 team league that legit goes about 12 or 13 teams deep. Teams that can beat any team in the country on any given night. The fact that Auburn still hasn't lost a conference game is pretty crazy.

Which reminds me I ****ing hate Bruce Pearl. Shady cheating mother****er. Can’t stand Auburn.

Anyone have a stream for this game?

Yes, it's coming in great on Youtube TV. I can see us looking like complete garbage in Hi-Def.

****ing Pat Adams is such a trash mother****ing ref. That's an awful ****ing call too.

Terrible ****ing call on Bates. Jesus Christ.

****ing disgusting start.

Finally on the board.

This is ****ing ridiculous