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Matter's pregame primer: Can Mizzou protect home court from Owls?

TEMPLE AT MISSOURI

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• Missouri has played at a glacially slow pace. The Tigers’ adjusted tempo ranks No. 314 among Division I teams. That’s in the neighborhood of teams like Notre Dame, Michigan and Villanova. Going slow is OK if you’re scoring efficiently. That doesn’t describe this Mizzou team through five games. MU ranks No. 158 in adjusted offensive efficiency, the result of a high turnover rate (21.4 percent) and poor shooting inside the 3-point arc (46 percent). Cuonzo Martin wants to play faster.