Two weeks ago, everything was going swimmingly for Missouri. They’d just handed Alabama its first SEC loss (albeit in unnecessarily dramatic fashion), they were ranked in the top 10 and were angling for a 2 or 3 seed in March.
Then they went to Mississippi. And if the last few years of Mizzou Athletics have tought us anything, it’s that you don’t go to Mississippi. Nothing good can come of it.
Ole Miss smacked Missouri 80-59 on Feb. 10, and the Tigers went reeling for the next 10 days. With Jeremiah Tilmon out for the following two games, the Tigers narrowly missed sweeping the Arkansas series and then dropped another clunker in Georgia.