They call them free throws for a reason, and Missouri’s men’s basketball team has often thrived shooting the shots from the line that sits 15 feet away from the hoop in this 2017-18 season.
It did not Saturday.
Against LSU, a team that won its previous three conference games the Pete Maravich Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Missouri shot 7 for 17 from the charity stripe. The black-and-gold Tigers fell 64-63, ending their five-game win streak.
“Tough loss,” Cuonzo Martin said in a postgame interview on the Tiger Radio Network. “This loss was tough.