COLUMBIA, MO. • In a two-point loss there’s plenty of possessions to second-guess, especially when four of those possessions fail to start with a clean pass from under the basket. That was the story of Missouri’s 79-77 loss to Temple on Tuesday, a game in which the Tigers ran their offense and shot the ball as well as they have all season — except for those 15 possessions that ended with a turnover.
Through the season’s first six games, this has all the makings of a transition year, the kind most struggling programs endure in a head coach’s first season.