Seldomly does a single player’s production dictate a team’s overall performance, but the Missouri Tigers’ stakes rely heavily on one player. And no, it’s not Kobe. D’Moi Hodge’s performance is Mizzou’s pendulum, and how he plays appears to directly impact the Tigers’ results. Mizzou is 14-1 when Hodge scores more than a dozen and 5-7 when he doesn’t.
I did a deep-dive into the games when Hodge scores more than 12, and the only loss I could find was in the kansas game. In that game, most of his points were in the second half when the game was well out of reach.