Today marked the sixth annual Rally For Rhyan fundraiser event for the Missouri Tiger basketball program, a day in which over $65,000 was raised at the game to help combat pediatric cancer. The fundraiser was certainly a bright spot in today’s overtime defeat to the rival Razorbacks.
The unranked Arkansas Razorbacks have been quietly treading water in the SEC the past few weeks— sitting at third place in the conference standings (7-4) — and they came into today’s competition looking for a statement win against a short-handed Tiger team.
Mitchell Smith started in place of Jeremiah Tilmon this afternoon, who was absent due to a death in the family, and quickly found ways to get settled in, nailing two three pointers before the first media timeout.