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It’s one of the worst things that can happen optically — a team losing on their own senior day. On Sunday at Mizzou Arena, the Missouri women’s basketball team did just that.
Hosting a Vanderbilt team (16-13, 5-11 SEC) that had lost eight straight games, No. 24 Missouri (21-8, 8-8 SEC) wasn’t supposed to lose this game. That was until the team shot 6-for-22 from the perimeter and 19-for-44 in general, and that lack of offensive success halted the sentimental pregame atmosphere as the Tigers fell 56-52.
“This is really not the way that we wanted to send (our seniors) out,” coach Robin Pingeton said.