There were different coaches on both benches and loads of different players on the floor. But the results didn’t change when Missouri made its latest voyage to Mississippi State. The Tigers’ three-game winning streak expired Saturday at Humphrey Coliseum, a place that’s become a graveyard for Mizzou momentum over the last decade.
This time at the Tigers’ Magnolia State house of horrors, Dennis Gates’ team suddenly couldn’t make free throws, couldn’t hold onto the ball and for the first time in two weeks couldn’t connect from deep.
Add it up and Mizzou played its sloppiest game since the start of conference play in a 63-52 loss, the program’s eighth straight defeat in Starkville and seventh straight in the series.