NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ten times Alabama hoisted 3-pointers in the first 11 minutes of a Southeastern Conference tournament semifinal game Saturday. Ten times Alabama missed from deep. Some rimmed out. Some skimmed off the iron. Some missed everything altogether at Bridgestone Arena.
All along, Missouri figured its good fortune was on borrowed time.
“We knew it wasn’t like them to miss so many 3s,” Kobe Brown later said in a hushed Mizzou locker room. “When that first one went in, we were like, ‘OK, they’re making 3s now.’ But we expected that from the jump.