It rained in Columbia this morning, but it rained more inside Mizzou Arena Thursday night.

Destiny Slocum caught the kick-out, stepped into her shot from behind the arc on the right wing and drained it.

The basket was her sixth 3-pointer of the game and got her to 22 points. More importantly for the No. 16 Arkansas Razorbacks, though, the conversion put them four points ahead of Missouri with just 33.6 seconds remaining. Arkansas held on to win, 85-80, and lethal three-point shooting was largely the reason why.

The Razorbacks, led by Slocum and Amber Ramirez from three, seemed as if they couldn’t miss from behind the arc.

The pair combined to shoot 11-15 from deep and scored 39 of the team’s points. The team made 14 out of 26 threes in the game.

“I think [Slocum] got off to a great start,” Arkansas coach Mike Neighbors said. “To get 20 [points] and 10 assists, that’s accounting for a lot of our offense tonight and we needed every single one of them.”

Missouri coach Robin Pingeton had similar comments on the Razorbacks’ shooting performance.

“We tried to guard them,” Pingeton said. “It wasn’t like we said, ‘they don’t shoot the three.’ Several of those kids, they can score on three levels. Destiny, Amber and Chelsea [Dungee], they’re a pretty tough [trio.]”

As a team, the Razorbacks shot 53.8% from three-point range — a higher percentage than their attempts from inside the arc. They are shooting 38.2% from deep on the season and 35.8% in SEC play.

Most nights, making 14 threes will put any game well out of reach. But the Tigers shot the ball well too — 48.2% from the field — and kept themselves in the game up until the final seconds.

“I feel like holding them to 48% is kind of a victory,” Neighbors said. “If all you do is look at their record, you don’t realize how talented that team is and how good they are.”

The Tigers kept Arkansas at bay compared to when they faced off in Fayetteville back on Jan. 3. The Razorbacks shot 12-34 from three and Slocum only scored 10 points. Dungee scored 25 points and the team scored 91. Fewer made threes, more attempted threes, but the Razorbacks found another way to win.

Since that game, Arkansas has averaged 9.14 threes per game. If you include tonight’s win over Missouri, that average jumps up to nearly 10. Simply put, the Razorbacks are deadly from deep. If they shoot it well from distance, chances are, they’ll come out on top. They showed exactly how they do it against Missouri.

_Edited by Kyle Pinnell | kpinnell@themaneater.com_