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Matter's Pregame Primer: Can Tigers capture road win in Columbia East?

COLUMBIA, S.C. • It’s a rare Sunday afternoon game for Cuonzo Martin’s Missouri basketball team, thanks to the Snowpocalypse that struck the Midwest on Friday and threw off the Tigers’ travel plans.

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He’s right about tempo. His teams are known for playing rugged, pressure defense, and sometimes that type of defensive team is mistakenly associated teams with slow, plodding offense. That’s not the case with Martin’s teams, at least not all of them. Here’s where his South Carolina and Kansas State teams have ranked in adjusted tempo each of the last 12 years: No.