AUBURN, Ala. — Three days after Missouri’s finest performance of the season, the Tigers couldn’t overcome their worst start of the year Tuesday at Auburn.
Maybe it was a Tennessee hangover. Maybe Auburn was just the hungrier team. But no matter how the Tigers explain Tuesday’s carnage — an 89-56 clunker — this is a game they’ll want to burn from their memories before the team plane lands in Columbia.
Not 72 hours after DeAndre Gholston’s 35-foot game-winner at Tennessee, the Tigers went one whole miserable half without a 3-pointer Tuesday … rarely visited the foul line … got punished on the boards (again) … and gave away possessions like candy hearts on Valentine’s Day.