COLUMBIA, MO. • Three games into conference play and three losses by double-digit margins for the Missouri Tigers. The last time that happened? Mizzou went through a similar three-game stretch last year with consecutive losses to Texas A&M, Auburn and Mississippi State by 11, 18 and 12 points, respectively.
That team came out of its funk with a five-game winning streak. This team, at 9-6 and 0-3 in league play, doesn’t seem equipped to have the same kind of response.
33: That’s the number of points Alabama got from its bench, outscoring Mizzou’s reserves by 18 points.