FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — For once, the math caused problems.
No. 15 Missouri men’s basketball is a team that can win multiple ways, able to draw on a deep rotation of players as needed to make that happen.
But Saturday night in Arkansas’ Bud Walton Arena, multiple systems failed. Mizzou lost to the Razorbacks 92-85, unable to bail itself out through any of the ways it usually can.
From turnovers to free throws, from a cold night for a sharpshooter to a cold, perhaps, for an under-the-weather big man, the recipe that the Tigers have used to put together a special season came out bitter and bland — full of “things you can’t do on the road and expect to win,” as MU coach Dennis Gates termed it.