Those are all incredibly alarming statistics. No matter how much grit and toughness the Tigers display on defense, there’s no way to overcome that kind of dysfunction on the offensive end.

In the Tigers’ four losses, they have more turnovers (40) than field goals (32) in the first half, while shooting just 32% from the field (32 of 100) and 11.1% from 3-point range (3 of 27). Louis Post-Dispatch’s Dave Matter (undoubtedly scouring his mind to think of new ways to write about this team) examined the issue of first half defense in his Mizzou Hoops piece on Monday. Things are bleak, and there’s only so much you can say before you start to get repetitive. Right now, KenPom has them projected to lose every single game until that March 5 date against Georgia. Tuesday’s game against Eastern Illinois represents the last game they’ll play against a non-KenPom top 100 opponent until March, when they’re set to face South Carolina and Georgia in the same week. It’s no secret to anyone here that Missouri is capital-B bad without much prospect for hope in the near future. But game days in 2021 do harbor an odd sort of dread, don’t they? It is once again game day for the Missouri Tigers basketball team, a statement that kind of reads/sounds like I’m being forced to write/speak it at gun point. NET Rankings? What are those? Never heard of ‘em

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