Back at Georgia’s Stegeman Coliseum for the first time since clobbering the Bulldogs by 25 points two years ago, Missouri was on pace Tuesday to match that blowout.
Then the second-half letdown happened, again.
Playing without senior center Jeremiah Tilmon for the second straight game, the No. 20 Tigers soared to a 13-point lead minutes into the second half only to fall apart like so many times this season. Georgia unleashed a 25-7 run midway through the second half and rode that surge to an 80-70 victory.
The loss was the Tigers' third straight as they begins a pivotal two-week stretch against four teams behind them in the Southeastern Conference standings.