By The Numbers: Missouri vs. Colorado
I don’t even know where to begin.
Today’s game pits Missouri against another team it should beat, but probably won’t because it’s not ranked and not very good and that just doesn’t seem to inspire Missouri to play.
But if Missouri decided to play today, it would find that it has an advantage in the paint… if Leo Lyons plays more than 9 minutes. Mizzou scores more than Colorado. Mizzou has a better bench and has beaten better teams this year.
Although Missouri hasn’t won a true road game since February of last year, Colorado hasn’t exactly been unbeatable at home. The Buffaloes are 4-5 at home, including a loss to New Orleans.
Make no mistake, the Tigers need this win. Not just to prove they can win on the road. Or even get them back on track in conference play. But because for all the comments I make about the 2005-06 team, this team could slide into that quitting mentality very quickly.
Body language spoke volumes in Lubbock, so watch closely if Mizzou starts to slip today.
Luckily for Mizzou, Colorado was the place it broke an 11-game road losing streak last year. Perhaps that luck could repeat itself.
Here’s how the Tigers stack up against the Buffaloes (Big 12 ranking in parentheses):
| CATEGORY | MISSOURI | COLORADO | ADVANTAGE |
| Scoring offense | 81.5 (3) | 63.8 (12) | Missouri |
| Scoring defense | 69.8 (12) | 62.3 (4) | Colorado |
| FT percentage | .686 (6) | .686 (5) | Colorado |
| FG percentage | .463 (8) | .455 (9) | Missouri |
| 3-pointers made | 7.26 (4) | 6.22 (8) | Missouri |
| 3-point percentage | .327 (10) | .349 (8) | Colorado |
| Rebounding | 37.1 (6) | 30.1 (12) | Missouri |
| Rebounding defense | 37.3 (12) | 31.5 (1) | Colorado |
| Blocked shots | 3.63 (9) | 4.44 (5) | Colorado |
| Total assists | 344 (2) | 254 (7) | Missouri |
| Assists per game | 18.11 (2) | 14.11 (7) | Missouri |
| Total steals | 182 (3) | 115 (10) | Missouri |
| Steals per game | 9.58 (3) | 6.39 (10) | Missouri |
| Total turnovers | 263 (9) | 243 (4) | Colorado |
| Turnover margin | +4.95 (2) | +0.33 (10) | Missouri |
| Assist-to-turnover ratio | 1.31 (3) | 1.05 (7) | Missouri |
PREDICTION:Missouri 85, Colorado 84
Graham, good article today on Carroll. I hope he picks it up for his own sake. I also hope Safford gets some minutes too, just because I like to watch him play.
Graham, good article today on Lyons. I hope he picks it up for his own sake. I also hope Safford gets some minutes too, just because I like to watch him play.
Graham, I thought Lyons was going in to that pout that he did Wed. {that you called correctly}, but he finally pulled his head out the southern area and did what he can do when he’s not pouting. I’m with you on this team Too many knuckleheads that want to play plyground ball. MA needs time for a couple more years.
As a Mizzou Alum, who graduated in 1979, I was at the Basketball game that was played here at CU-Boulder over a month ago. I found that the game had changed dramatically in Mike Anderson’s era, that definitely put a different team on the Court than in the Stipo and Sunvold years when I saw the games in Columbia. The game started out totally differently, with CU jumping out to the lead, and Mizzou coming back into the game. It used to be that, with the heighth advantage, that Mizzou was always expected to win; and therefore, always jumped out to the lead with CU-Boulder battling back. The most interesting thing to me being from the area, was that they seemed to be encouraging aspiring students to stay locally rather than taking many of the excellent programs at Mizzou. At the half all of the Colorado mascots took the Court to advertise in-state schools. I did not stay for the second half of the game as it had changed so drastically from my memories of seeing the two schools play.
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