Coming off of a winning streak that saw the Tigers excel against sub-par competition over the past couple weeks, there still wasn’t a lot of expectation for Missouri basketball going against a nationally ranked Arizona squad on the road.
But showing some degree of improvement from their losses against Xavier, Kansas State and Northwestern was something we were expecting, and that didn’t happen. No close game (unless you watched only until the second television timeout), no leader out on the court, and certainly no defense.
One of the major points that everyone is hanging on right now is the fact that through the same amount of games as last year, Missouri have produced nearly the same results against teams that are very similar.