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Kansas downs Missouri in overtime showdown

Seth Boster • February 25, 2012

LAWRENCE, KAN. — There were 8.3 seconds remaining of the ancient Border Showdown inside Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday, and it was up to visiting Missouri to decide how the final chapter would be told. Down...

Tigers ready for final Border Showdown

Seth Boster • February 24, 2012

When he was a freshman, senior guard Kim English made his first start at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kans., where his attempts to make an audible sound to former teammate Leo Lyons right next to him...

Michael Dixon stars as Tigers’ sixth man

Ryan Hood • February 21, 2012

Junior guard Michael Dixon hasn’t taken kindly to attempts by the media to delineate what word best defines his role. “He doesn’t want to be called a sixth man," coach Frank Haith said. "I don’t...

Upset part two: Kansas State stuns No. 3 Missouri again

Ryan Hood • February 21, 2012

The detractors for the Missouri men's basketball team have pegged the Tigers’ lack of depth and size, as well as their reliance upon the three-point shot, as the squad's most likely pitfalls. With perhaps...

101 smiles: Missouri senior class sets record

Ryan Hood • February 17, 2012

As players addressed the media following former coach Mike Anderson's departure for the University of Arkansas last year, then-junior forward Kim English addressed how the team would cope without its former...

Missouri completes revenge, thrashes Oklahoma State

Seth Boster • February 15, 2012

Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford could only frown and shake his head trying to explain what happened in his team’s 83-65 thwacking at the hands of No. 3 Missouri on Wednesday night at Mizzou Arena. He...

The last shoot-out: Tigers ready for last bout with Cowboys

Ryan Hood • February 14, 2012

Coach Frank Haith and the Missouri men's basketball team insist Wednesday’s rematch with Oklahoma State at Mizzou Arena is more about learning from mistakes than exacting revenge. “It’d be just...

Missouri trounces No. 6 Baylor for season sweep

Ryan Hood • February 11, 2012

In his postgame press conference, Baylor coach Scott Drew revealed that his team’s plan of attack was to force Missouri to take threes. As the old adage goes, hindsight is 20-20. The No. 4 Tigers (23-2,...

The next shot: Denmon breaks out in crucial moment

Seth Boster • February 10, 2012

By now, the shot has become just another shot, a ghost among the other 163 three-pointers Missouri senior guard Marcus Denmon has attempted this season. Denmon has to think back on it. He has to reach...

Saturday matinee pits rematch between No. 4 Missouri vs. No. 6 Baylor

Ryan Hood • February 10, 2012

With a win Saturday, No. 4 Missouri would essentially make the Big 12 Conference a two-team race between itself and Kansas. That’s just not how coach Frank Haith and his players are viewing their upcoming...

Tigers roar on ‘GameDay’

Ryan Hood • February 7, 2012

As smoke from a pre-game pyrotechnic show lingered throughout Mizzou Arena, two long-time foes with hatred dating back to the Civil War went to battle on the court. It was the 266th meeting between Missouri...

The rush to the start: MU fans take in unique experience

Nate Atkins • February 7, 2012

First, there were tents, damp and withered from two nights of rain and thunder. Then there was the line, winding round and round the sidewalks and lawn staging Mizzou Arena. None of it mattered when the...