Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Mizzou comes out of the gates with a good game plan, they play a close game in the first half, and even put together a run early in the second half to take a lead. Only to run out of gas down the stretch and lose a conference game.
Not every one of those opponents was a top-10 opponent like Tennessee. And sure, none of those games started with both teams shooting a combined 1-17 from the floor. It took 11 minutes before either team could crack 10 points, but.