COLUMBIA, Mo. — It’s time for Missouri men’s basketball to win out.
At least, if the Tigers want their most advantageous spot in next week’s Southeastern Conference Tournament, anyway.
With two games to go in the regular season, No. 15 Mizzou (21-8 overall, 10-6 SEC) has lost control of its destiny in the race for one of the league’s coveted double byes in the conference tournament bracket. The structure for the SEC’s postseason sends the top four regular season finishers straight to the quarterfinals — one round farther along than where the teams that finish fifth-eighth enter the fray.