COLUMBIA, Mo. — It seems the Missouri men’s basketball team has been thinking more about the Long Island Sharks than expected.
The Tigers played the Sharks in a December nonconference game and beat them by 27 points — one of the series of fairly blah “buy” games that made up the first chunk of Mizzou’s season.
Very little stands out about that game against LIU now a month and change after it was played, but there has been a lasting takeaway for MU: In demolishing the Sharks, it had avoided a letdown.
Six days before that game, Missouri had upset No.