AUSTIN, Texas • Seemingly in command for the umpteenth time Monday, No. 4 Mizzou nearly paid for its inability to handle prosperity one last time at the Erwin Center.

But Michael Dixon atoned for a flagrant offensive foul call with 1 minute, 11 seconds left that had enabled Texas to take a 66-65 lead by storming to the hoop on MU's next possession, going high off the glass with his left hand with 31 seconds left to give MU a 67-66 lead. And the Tigers won by that score.

"Mike is one of those guys, he's got that mental toughness," MU coach Frank Haith said. "He's not afraid."

Dixon was disconsolate after the call, deemed a "flagrant 1," in keeping with the first-year rule that mandates the penalty for any contact made above the shoulders.

In this case, Dixon's elbow was ruled to have swung in defender Julien Lewis' face.

"It's a simple, easy call," Haith said, not complaining.

Dixon had to move on instantly.

"In the heat of battle, things happen. That's just life on the road," he said, adding that his game-winning shot was supposed to go to Phil Pressey. "But they did a really good job of denying him. ...

"I just saw my defender was playing me to the left, and I just went in and made the play."

Mizzou couldn't exhale, though, until Myck Kabongo missed from the baseline in the final seconds and Marcus Denmon pulled in the rebound and the time ran out.

Afterward, Texas coach Rick Barnes said Big 12 coordinator of officials Curtis Shaw had told him Kabongo was fouled, apparently by Matt Pressey.

MU went into a zone for the final stand, mostly mindful of preventing Texas' J'Covan Brown from shooting.

"He was guarded pretty good that last play," MU's Kim English said, adding, "Once he gave it up, we didn't want J'Covan to get the ball back because he's deadly."

Dixon led MU with 21 points, on nine of 10 field goals, after he'd managed a total of 19 in Mizzou's previous three games.

Ricardo Ratliffe and Phil Pressey added 13 each for MU.

Brown, who had 34 points in the first meeting of the teams, led the Longhorns with 20.

The Tigers improved to 20-2 overall and 7-2 in Big 12 play.

Texas, playing a ranked team for the fifth time in six games, fell to 13-9 and 3-6 as MU swept the Longhorns in the regular-season series. On Jan. 14 in Columbia, Mizzou beat the Longhorns 84-73.

The victory was a contrast to MU's loss last week after a late slide at Oklahoma State, but Haith said he wasn't worried down the stretch.

"In the heat of the battle, I think there's no time to panic, there's no time to stress," he said.

The Tigers and Longhorns were more or less Velcroed to each other until late in the first half, with MU taking its biggest lead on an English jumper that made it 26-18.

Texas cut it to 27-22 at the break on a bucket by Brown.

Dixon seemed to break the game open early in the second half with eight straight Tigers points to give MU a 36-24 lead.

His 3-pointer to start the run made him two of two from 3-point range. To that point in the game, all other players on both teams were 0 for 17.

English changed that with a 3 to make it 39-26, but Texas rattled off a 7-0 run and soon closed to 50-48 on a three-point play by Jonathan Holmes.

But the Tigers went back up eight with a Pressey bucket, his free throw and two assists to Ratliffe, who converted the second basket into a three-point play to make it 60-52 with just over 5 minutes left.

English then hit a 3 after a Brown free throw to make it a 10-point game again.

Texas came right back to cut it to 63-58 on a Kabongo 3 with 3:05 left. Kabongo's free throws with 2:15 left made it 63-60.

MU had the ball and a three-point lead when Dixon turned with the ball and hit Lewis in the face with his arm.

Lewis hit two free throws before Brown scored with 59 seconds left to give the Longhorns their first lead since early in the first half.

Texas fell to 0-7 in games decided by six points or fewer.

Texas entered the game with four losses in its last five games, each to a ranked team. And in each of the last four defeats, it had the ball with a chance to tie or win in the final seconds.

The game marked Haith's first return to Austin of any kind since he left Texas in 2004 after three seasons as Barnes' assistant to take over at Miami. He received a nice ovation from Texas fans when he was introduced.