Survive, and advance. That’s all you can say this was.
Missouri didn’t play their best game, but they played just well enough offensively to hold off the champions from the Missouri Valley. If it weren’t for the Tigers continued struggles with turnovers (19 for a TORate of 25.6%) their offense would have been too much for Drake in regulation as Mizzou was able to put up 1.4 points per shot, which dropped to a very pedestrian 1.04 ppp.
The Tigers had four in double figures with Sophie Cunningham leading the way with 21 points, but Sophie fouled out in Overtime with Mizzou clinging to a two point lead.