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By Boo Radley on March 1st, 2010
That was ugly. I was really at a loss for words watching that game. Not sure I can ever remember watching a basketball game with
That was ugly. I was really at a loss for words watching that game. Not sure I can ever remember watching a basketball game with that much talent on the floor in which it looked liked for the first 20 minutes that no body knew how to make a basket. KU and Kentucky played a game a couple years ago that I thought was the worst big time basketball game I had ever watched, but
If you would have told me that back in January when they first played that these two teams would be meeting the last weekend in Feb for the #2 seed, I would have been pretty surprised. Not that I didn't think that both teams were good teams, but I assumed Texas would be a solid #2 and our biggest fight would be just to get the first round bye. We are still fighting for that
Euclid pretty much outlined what has to be done the next few weeks, and this is clearly a monster game for Conference seeding and NCAA Tourney bids. While I don’t want to jinx it, a win gets us to at least 9-7 in the conference which I think is on the right side of the bubble, but 8-8 is clearly on the bubble. Chet should have more on that soon. So what can we expect
The Baylor game was very disappointing. Pull out that win and we are in the driver's seat for a bye in the first round of the Big XII tournament. Following the game I figured we had virtually no chance of finishing in the top 4 given our challenging remaining schedule and poor tie-breaker position vis-à-vis Baylor and Texas A&M. But after just a few minutes of homework I have a renewed faith in the Tigers
Second Half
19:00 English air ball, but nice rebound by Safford. 4th foul on Lomers 38-35. If Bowers is not on the floor, Safford is our most active player. Why is Keith Ramsey even playing?
17:00 First bucket by Udoh, but Kimmie answers from downtown. 40-38. I like the way this half has started. We are much more aggressive on both ends of the floor. Again, why is Ramsey playing? ON cue, here come Bowers.
15:37 44-42 Baylor.
Live from Waco, here we go. Brad Sham and Miles Simon onthe call. Good, new blood plus I love Miles Simon after they beat KU in the tourney and Brad Sham is the Dallas Cowboys announcer which I love as well.
20:00 Bowers and Denmon not starting. Dammit. Against a team like Baylor, I think you need your best offenive team to start.
17:37 Wow Baylor is tall. I don't see many points being scored inside the
Really. Miguel Paul is the face of this team. WAIT. Wait, don't go away. Hear me out.
This article isn't really even about Miguel Paul. It's about the character of this team. See, Miguel Paul represents the faceless, selfless player that rotates in and out of this carousel system. Who are you going to remember 10 years from now? There's no Peeler, Stipanovich or Rush on this team. Denmon, English, Taylor?
That’s a bad loss, for a number of reasons. In a conference that appears to be loaded with eight quality teams, you can’t lose a home game to a team you are fighting for a first round bye in the Big 12 tourney and more importantly an NCAA bid. Just a killer. From tied for second, to fifth just like that. Spots 2-8 are going to change over the next four weeks,
Not very often my favorite sportswriter (apologies to Scipio and Phenom) writes about my favorite Mizzou player.
Poz on Danario
Coach Mike Anderson officially signed three players to play for the Tigers in 2010, including perhaps the point guard of the future. Here is the official release from mutigers.com
http://www.mutigers.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/111309aab.html
Now we just need Tony Mitchell and Bradley Beal to sign as well, and things will be rolling under CMA.
How can you not be in utter awe of this
guy?
Last year I posted this at about 11:45pm on Halloween as I was drinking and carving pumpkins. This year it will be slightly more timely.
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At today's KC Tiger Club meeting Dave Matter told the audience about a new site the Columbia Tribune was launching to focus exclusively on Mizzou sports.
TigerExtra.com
Dave billed it as one-stop shopping for all your Mizzou sports news. Dave mentioned it should be up and running later this week or sometime next week but it appears to be fully operational today. Based on my quick perusal it looks like this will include all Dave Matter