Missouri has only two reserves on scholarship. One of them was all the Tigers really needed to beat Texas Monday night.
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Saddle Up is our semi-daily preview of the night’s best basketball action. No. 4 Missouri at Texas, 9 p.m. ET, ESPN: The 2011-12 Missouri Tigers are not known for their defense. That’s not because the Tigers’ defense is particularly bad; it’s more like average, or slightly above. But beyond that, the main reason the Tigers aren’t known for their defense is their offense. We think about Missouri as an offensive team not only because the Tigers were an offensive, fast-break style team throughout former coach Mike Anderson’s tenure, but because this current group of Missouri Tigers happens to be really, really awesome at scoring the ball.
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Saddle Up: Missouri’s best offense
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The Longhorns return home to the Frank Erwin Center Wednesday evening for a 7 p.m. contest against the Tigers.
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Women’s Basketball preview: vs. Missouri
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WACO, Texas — Here are some quick thoughts from Missouri’s 89-88 victory over Baylor Saturday at the Ferrell Center. Overview: Marcus Denmon’s free throw with four seconds remaining proved to be the difference in No. 5 Missouri’s victory over third-ranked Baylor. Denmon’s foul shot gave the Tigers an 89-85 lead. A 3-pointer by Baylor’s Brady Heslip at the buzzer didn’t matter. Ricardo Ratliffe scored 27 points for Missouri, which led by as many as 12 points late in the second half before Baylor made a run late in the game.
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Rapid Reaction: Missouri 89, Baylor 88
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Longhorn guard J’Covan Brown scored 34 points Saturday during a loss at Missouri, the most by a Tigers’ opponent in Mizzou Arena since the building opened during the 2004-05 season. After the game, when I asked Brown about his
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Brown, Barnes and the ankle
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Longhorns and Tigers open another Saturday of Big 12 play.
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Texas at Missouri: Longhorns Look for First Big 12 Road Win
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EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON … Three Tigers the Horns will have to keep close tabs on today: JAMES FRANKLIN, QB Slowing down Missouri’s dual-threat quarterback is vital for Texas.
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Texas vs. Missouri: Three Tigers the Longhorns will be watching
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We’ll hold our weekly Longhorns game chat for today’s Texas vs. Missouri game. The Longhorns and Tigers kick off at 11 a.m., so we’ll kick off our chat at 10:30 a.m. and will keep chatting till after the final
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Texas vs. Missouri live game chat
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Every week, your humble college basketball hoops blogger (er, me) will respond to your questions, comments and nonsensical rants in this here Hoopsbag. To submit a query, visit this page by clicking the link under my name in the upper right-hand corner of the blog. You can also email me or send me your entries via Twitter . (Honestly, the best way to get me is Twitter.) Per the usual, we begin with video. @ Purdidit writes : Each year has one or two: Which preseason top 10 team is most likely to fail to live up to expectations? Eamonn Brennan : This one’s actually pretty easy. It’s Memphis. For much of the summer, I thought the Tigers’ preseason ranking was going to be too high; with all this young talent, it’s easy to forget that Memphis was basically a so-so C-USA team for much of the 2010-11 season. Sure, the Tigers finished strong, and there’s reason to expect scaled improvements from a team that features so many sophomores that played big minutes as freshmen. The addition of highly-touted recruit Adonis Thomas helps, too. But top 10? Didn’t that seem just a little optimistic? What was I missing? I put Memphis at No. 17 in my preseason top-25 ballot . I thought that seemed fair. Then Ken Pomeroy released his preseason rankings (Memphis is ranked No. 20) and ESPN Insider and Basketball Prospectus maven John Gasaway broke things down in this Monday piece for Insider , and I’m more convinced than ever that Memphis isn’t a top-10 team. As John wrote, that doesn’t mean they won’t be a top-10 team by the end of the season. It may even be earlier than that. But the team with the worst offense in Conference USA — the only team to score less than a point per possession in C-USA last season — can’t possibly be the ninth-best team in the country. It may happen at some point, but I’d be shocked if the Tigers didn’t struggle at times, especially early in the season. People will say they were overrated. But whose fault is that? (Speaking of Memphis, by the way: Josh Pastner just keeps snatching up elite recruits . The present was already bright, but jeez, that future! Look out.) @ LakeRosenberg writes : In honor of The Mid-Majority , what team from below The Red Line can go the furthest in the NCAA Tournament? Brennan : It’s a new season with (hopefully) new readers, so I won’t assume everyone knows what The Red Line is. You can get up to speed right here . The short version: The Mid-Majority’s Kyle Whelliston wanted to define what, exactly, a mid-major is. He cut through the usual nonsense about tournament bids and school enrollments (people used to come up with some really wacky mid-major arguments) and instead created an intuitive, simple mechanism: The Red Line. If your conference’s average athletics department spends more than X number of dollars, you’re a high-major league.
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Well, the worst kept secret is finally out and the SEC has a new brother to play with. Sunday, the SEC officially welcomed in Missouri , who will leave the Big 12. For those counting at home, that makes 14 members in the SEC. The Tigers will compete in the SEC beginning in 2012, and according to SEC commissioner Mike Slive, will also be placed in the SEC East, which is a good move, because it will help preserve some traditional SEC. However, traveling from Columbia, S.C., to Columbia, Mo., could cost you a pretty penny. Regardless, the addition of Missouri should be a welcomed addition to the conference. It’s a strong academic school and will be the fourth Association of American Universities school in the SEC. It also brings in two pretty big TV markets in St. Louis and Kansas City. That means more people in front of TV sets when SEC games are on. There are still some challenges ahead for Missouri, with the Big 12 still trying to add West Virginia. Dueling suits between West Virginia and the Big East concerning the league’s 27-month notice required in Big East bylaws are slowing down the Mountaineers’ move to the Big 12. In turn, that could impact the Tigers’ move to the SEC because the Big 12 needs to have at least 10 members in order to fulfill its television contract. Still, Mizzou and the SEC held a public celebration Sunday to officially announce the school’s move to the SEC. “The Southeastern Conference is a highly successful, stable, premier athletic conference that offers exciting opportunities for the University of Missouri,” Missouri chancellor Brady J. Deaton said in a statement. “In joining the SEC, MU partners with universities distinguished for their academic programs and their emphasis on student success. The SEC will provide our student-athletes with top flight competition and unparalleled visibility. We came to this decision after careful consideration of the long term best interests of our university. We believe the Southeastern Conference is an outstanding home for the Mizzou Tigers, and we take great pride in our association with this distinguished league.” Here are some fun facts the SEC gave us about the new Tigers coming into the league: The university, located in Columbia, Mo., was founded in 1839 and has an enrollment of 33,800 students, which would be the fourth largest institution in the SEC. Only Florida, Georgia and Texas A&M have a larger student body. There are more than 260,000 Missouri alumni around the world. The state of Missouri borders three SEC states: Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas. The Tigers’ football team has been to a bowl game for six straight years and 28 times overall. Missouri’s men’s basketball team has made it to the NCAA Tournament three straight seasons and 24 times overall. The softball team has participated in the College World Series each of the past three seasons. The Tigers have won Big 12 Championships in men’s basketball, soccer and softball. The Tigers sponsor 20 varsity sports. Men’s sports include baseball, basketball, football, golf, swimming and diving, wrestling, indoor and outdoor track and field, and cross country. Women’s sports include basketball, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field and cross country, and volleyball. Missouri participates in every sport sponsored by the SEC except men’s tennis and the SEC sponsors every sport the Tigers participate in except wrestling. Missouri boasts national championships in baseball (1954) and men’s indoor track and field (1965).
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