After last week’s game, Missouri needed a palate cleanser. After the first five minutes of the first half yesterday, it certainly looked like they were not going to get one, either.
UCF was fresh off a fairly thorough beating of Ole Miss in Oxford, and were looking to do the same thing to another middle-of-the-pack SEC team. So when they were up 10-0, and the Tigers had yet to score a point, and had missed their first three 3-point attempts, things were looking dire. Dennis Gates had made a change to the starting lineup by swapping out DeAndre Gholston and Noah Carter and inserting Tre Gomillion and Ronnie DeGray III.