COLUMBIA, Mo. — So what was that down in Fayetteville?
A couple of days after the Missouri men’s basketball team dropped a road game to Arkansas, there’s both plenty and very little to make of the loss.
While it was a missed opportunity for the Tigers to advance in the race for Southeastern Conference tournament or NCAA tourney seeding, it didn’t cost them much in national reputation: Splitting games against the Hogs and Alabama resulted in Mizzou moving up one spot in The Associated Press poll, to No. 14, the highest it has been ranked under third-year coach Dennis Gates.