COLUMBIA, Mo. — Some of the proprietary, cutting-edge box scores that college basketball programs pay advanced statistics providers thousands for list the time that a game was analytically “over.”
Whatever the moment was in Missouri’s 111-38 domination of Mississippi Valley State on Thursday night, it must have been early.
The Delta Devils, ranked by KenPom as the nation’s worst D-I program, scored the first bucket of the game to lead for 41 seconds. After that, MU dominated.
In the process, the Tigers tied a program record for the largest margin of victory in a game. The mark, achieved twice before, is 72 points — done previously in a 1995 game against Chicago State and a 1976 game against MacMurray.