LAWRENCE, Kan. — The last time the Missouri men’s basketball team won a game in Phog Allen Fieldhouse, 35 cents could buy you a stamp or a share of Apple stock.
A lot has changed since that Border War victory on Jan. 24, 1999. Now, an Apple share goes for $200 or so and the price of a stamp has doubled to 66 cents. The new millennium hasn’t done much to inflate the Tigers’ prospects of winning in the Phog, though, and Saturday’s 73-64 loss to No. 2 Kansas in Lawrence showed that.
While jumbotron antics questioned everything from Missouri’s statehood to its past performances against KU, the Tigers opened the game with a 14-minute firestorm.