Any hope of Missouri (8-22, 0-17 Southeastern Conference) ending a season-long home losing streak quickly vanished in the blink of an eye in its 101-74 loss to Auburn (23-7, 11-5) on Tuesday evening.
After playing good enough basketball to pull within five at the half, reoccurring problems hit the home Tigers, and within a span of under five minutes, the inability to score, rebound and contain a star player — this time forward Johni Broome — re-emerged and helped the visitors come out on a 7-0 run. This pushed the Auburn lead to 12 and quickly forced Dennis Gates to call a timeout.