ST. LOUIS — This game was ugly. Like really ugly.
Kobe Brown and D’Moi Hodge combined for 51 points, and Missouri outplayed Illinois from start to finish in a 93-71 blowout win for 2022 Braggin’ Rights at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis.
Illinois led 12-10 early in the first half, but a string of almost nine minutes without a made field goal resulted in Missouri exploding on a 22-3 run to take a 17-point lead. After this scoring clinic, Hodge’s point total (13) almost outscored the entire Illinois team (15).
It just kept getting worse.