MU-NU Game Notes
2/7/2004 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 7, 2004
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NU 78-MU 62 Game Notes 2/7/04
+ Mizzou head coach Quin Snyder and Nebraska head coach Barry Collier, along with their staffs, wore sneakers with their suits at today's game to promote the National Coaches vs. Cancer Awareness program, which has helped raise millions of dollars for cancer research in the past nine years.
+ Mizzou falls to 9-10 overall and 4-5 in the Big 12. They are now 6-3 at home, 3-5 on the road and 0-2 in neutral court games. The Tigers have now lost three of their last four and two straight on the road
+ The loss marked the first time the Tigers have lost to Nebraska since Jan. 24, 2001 in Lincoln, a streak of six games.
+This marks the first time since head coach Quin Snyder's first season at Mizzou that one of his squads has been under .500. The 1999-2000 squad dropped their season-opener in the NABC Classic to Wisconsin to fall to 0-1 on the year marking the only other time that has happened.
+ The Tigers out-shot the Huskers, 46.5 percent to 45.8 percent from the field. Mizzou is now 7-4 when they out-shoot an opponent.
+ Mizzou also outboarded the Huskers, 28-26. The Tigers are now 8-5 when out rebounding an opponent this season.
+Senior Rickey Paulding led the Tigers in scoring with 16 points. This is the ninth time Paulding has paced the Tigers in scoring.
+ Paulding became only the 11th player in school history to record at 1,500 career points. He knocked down his first two free throws of the day to give him 1,500 career points and now has 1,514 points for his career, putting him in 11th place on the all-time scoring list.
+ Junior Jason Conley scored 12 points and pulled down nine boards on the day. The 12-point effort is his best scoring output since his Tiger debut when he scored a career-best 19 points. He also set a career-mark with his nine rebounds and equaled a career-high with 23 minutes of work off the bench for the Tigers. He also knocked down a career-best 6-of-6 free throw attempts.
+ Senior Travon Bryant was second on the squad in scoring on the day with 15 points. He was a perfect 5-of-5 from the field including 1-of-1 from three. He also canned 4-of-4 free throw attempts on the day while grabbing four rebounds.
+ Senior Arthur Johnson scored 10 points and remains in 10th on the Mizzou all-time scoring charts with 1,525 career points. He also remains in second on the career-rebounds charts with 997 career boards.
+ Mizzou took a season-low 43 shots from the field and equaled a season-low with 20 field goals made (46.5 percent).
+ The Tigers now play three straight games at home, where they are 6-3 this season. They face Colorado on Tuesday at 6 p.m. CST on ESPN2 before welcoming UNLV to Columbia on Sunday, Feb. 15 for a 2:30 p.m. CST game one ABC. Tickets are still available for the CU game, but the game against the Runnin' Rebels is sold out.
