Season glance: Games 26-28 – Mizzou Today: Missouri Tigers Football & Basketball Recruiting

Ok, I didn’t get this series done by opening day like I wanted to, but oh well. I know this exercise feels a bit worse after Monday’s loss, but basketball season doesn’t end after one game, so we’re going to keep rolling through the end of the season.

After 25 games, I have the Tigers sitting at 18-7 overall and 7-5 in SEC play with six games left on the schedule. Let’s get into the first half of those final games as we look at matchups against Alabama, Arkansas and South Carolina.

So many mid-weed 8 p.m. games this year. I hate it.

Alabama is the favorite to win the conference coming in to the season according to the media after posting a 25-12 overall record with a 13-5 mark in SEC play last year. The Crimson Tide lost to Florida in the first round of the SEC Tournament, but went into the NCAA Tournament as a No. 4 seed and beat Charleston, Grand Canyon and Clemson to reach the program’s first Final Four, where they lost to UConn.

Alabama enters the season as the No. 2 team according to the AP and the No. 4 team in the KenPom rankings.

Alabama played a very tough non-conference schedule last year with games against Wake Forest, Ohio State, Oregon, Clemson, Purdue, Creighton and Arizona.

They have a similarly tough road to conference play this year with games against Purdue, Illinois, Houston, North Carolina and Creighton again.

The Crimson Tide beat Missouri 93-75 in mid January last year for the teams’ only matchup. Alabama leads the all-time series with Missouri 15-7 and has won the past four matchups. Missouri’s last win came 92-86 on Jan. 8, 2022 in Columbia, which was the final win in a three-game Tiger winning streak in the series.

Leading scorer Mark Sears is back after averaging 21.5 points, 4.2 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game last season. The 6-foot, 1-inch, 190-pound graduate guard was a first-team All-SEC pick and is on the Naismith Trophy Player of the Year watchlist.

The Tide also return graduate forward Grant Nelson (6-11, 230) who averaged 11.9…

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Publish date : 2024-11-06 16:00:00

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