COLUMBIA, Mo. — In the first game of the conference season’s middle third, Missouri and Georgia tipped off Tuesday with identical SEC records, neither arriving with much momentum and both looking destined for the first day of the SEC Tournament in Nashville, when the four bottom seeds square off in front of a mostly empty Bridgestone Arena.
Forty minutes of basketball later, Missouri’s free fall to the bottom of the SEC slammed on the brakes.
In front of 8,451 at Mizzou Arena, the Tigers pulled off one of their biggest comebacks in recent memory, erasing a 20-point deficit to storm back and hold off Georgia 72-69.