Powered by another splendid shooting night from returner Caleb Grill and new South Carolina transfer center Josh Gray’s best performance yet in his new Missouri uniform, Dennis Gates’ Tigers dismissed West Coast Conference’s Pacific 91-56 on Friday night at Mizzou Arena.
Two games after scoring a career-high 33 points in a win against Eastern Washington, Grill scored a game-high 25 points Friday. He rarely missed, making nine of 12 shots from the field and seven of his nine 3-point attempts.
The 7-foot, 260-pound Gray’s seven points and seven rebounds came more quietly, but the bulk of them arrived in a critical first-half surge that nudged a close game toward a lopsided romp.