Mizzou: Sec

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[Justin Spencer]

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Best trash talking ever!

[moguy1973]

Can't beat the other Big 12 team on the road.

[ozark trout fisher]

Well, Missouri clearly does have plenty of trouble on the road. With about ten games left (counting the last 9 regular season games and at least 1 SEC tournament game), I think it's time to look at where Missouri stands....Texas A&M isn't a bad team, so this loss by itself isn't too concerning. But the 0-5 mark in true road games is. Missouri isn't on the bubble yet, with computer numbers still safely inside the 30s, and some quality wins that outweigh the two iffy losses. But I don't think it's an overstatement to say that tomorrow's game against Ole Miss is big. Definitely not a must win to get into the tournament, just very important...But it would put us in much more safe territory if we could pick up another quality win.

However we get there, Missouri probably needs to get to 11-7 in conference play (22-9 overall) to feel good about things, as long as they can win at least one more in the SEC tournament and avoid any truly awful losses. At 5-4, we have road games against Mississippi State and South Carolina, as well as home games against LSU and Arkansas. Missouri even at it's current mediocre level of play probably won't lose any of those, though anything is certainly possible now. It's hard to see us beating Florida at home or Kentucky on the road right now. But if we do win either of those games (particularly against Florida), we are probably in barring a sub-500 SEC record.

So basically, the season at least in theory comes down to road games at Arkansas and Tennessee, as well as Saturday's home game against Ole Miss. Assuming we win all the rest of our games except Florida and Kentucky (which I wish I felt more confident about), if we can win 2 of the 3 above games, Missouri should be relatively safe. Missouri could easily end up losing more than that, and at 9-9 or 10-8 we'd probably need to win multiple games in the SEC tournament just to slide into the NCAAs. They could just as easily take care of business, go 12-6, and end up with a 6 or a 7 seed, possibly better. I don't know what to expect at this point.

The only thing I'm sure about is that I'm tired of the mid-to late season concerns about whether Missouri's basketball and football teams are going to make the postseason. Our football team kept me nervous for so long that I was hoping basketball would be a bit more relaxing in that regard. Three months into the season, it's not. This has been a rough year, but I suppose we were probably due for that after years of success in both football and basketball.

As for Kansas, naturally I don't see them winning another game.... (wish I could say that with a straight face...they will probably win the national title now that Bill Self is pissed off at the them.)

[stlfisher]

pressey threw that ball so far out out of bounds it landed in lawrence. awful.

[ozark trout fisher]

Missouri bounced back nicely today against Ole Miss. The striking thing is that we lost to them by 15 on the road. Won by 19 at home. I'm not good at math but I think that's a 34 point difference. And that sums up our season so far, pretty much.

Anyway, it's a win over a likely tournament team, and I'll take it however it comes. This puts Missouri in a much better position than it was in a few hours ago. But the highs and lows of this team are starting to wear on me. They need to win at Mississippi State this week.

[Jerry Rapp]

February basketball doesn't mean much. Ask Indiana. It is just plain tough to win on the road. The main thing that I noticed about Pressey was that I didn't see one visible tattoo. Maybe he is investing his contibutions. LOL! He does go hyper every once in a while. And he does play much better at home (or neutral courts). As always, what happens in March is what will be remembered.

[ozark trout fisher]

So, um, Missouri isn't looking for it's first road win anymore. Beat Mississippi State last night 78-36. I realize that this Miss St. isn't a great team but it was still very nice to see that this team is actually capable of winning on the road in this conference, and doing so emphatically. And this is coming off our best performance of the season, a 19 point home win against Ole Miss. Pressey has had two straight excellent games. Against Ole Miss he was primarily a scorer, and a more efficient one than usual. Against Mississippi State I think he had 8 assists and just one shot. That is a pretty good stat-line for Pressey, in my opinion. Though I don't mind him taking some shots just so long as they're in the flow of the offense. Bell and Brown played really well. Just a very promising game, all said.

On a side note, I felt really bad for Mississippi State. They literally had no bench last night (I think they have seven or eight total players, counting non-scholarship guys. )And they lost one of their better guards for a decent portion of the game due to injury. So this game was probably always going to be a little unfair, to be honest. They're pretty much all freshman and sophomores, so they are sure to improve greatly in the coming years. I think they have a good coach who was just dealt a tough hand with a whole bunch of injuries.