Missouri center Jeremiah Tilmon recently seemed incapable of sustaining a multiple-game stretch of productivity. Just three weeks ago, the Tigers basketball team was coming off of a loss at South Carolina, and Tilmon was finishing up a brutal set of poor performances mainly because of foul trouble.
“Man the refs are picking on me,” Tilmon once said about his about his three-game stretch from late December to January in which he tallied a combined total of just 34 minutes, 11 points and three rebounds. “But I looked myself in the mirror and said it was me.
“Ever since then, it’s changed.