Mizzou Post Game Notes after the Kansas Contest
2/1/2005 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 1, 2005
Missouri at No. 6/7 Kansas Game Notes
January 31, 2005
Allen Field House - Lawrence, KS
Missouri Team Notes
- Missouri falls to 10-11 on the season and 2-6 in the Big 12. They are 10-4 at home, 0-4 in road games and 0-3 in neutral court contests.
- This is the only the fourth time the Tigers have fallen below .500 during Coach Quin Snyder's six year tenure at Mizzou. They have never been more than one game under .500 during that time.
- Coach Snyder is now 110-74 in his six years at Mizzou.
- The No. 6 Jayhawks were the fourth ranked opponent and the third top-10 squad Mizzou has faced this season. They are 1-3 against those opponents.
- The loss was Mizzou's first of the season after leading at halftime (they were up 36-28 at the break).
- The Tigers had been 9-0 to this point in the season when leading at the half.
- The Tigers have now dropped six of their last seven contests and six straight at Kansas.
- Mizzou led by as many as 11 points at 41-30 with 19;14 left in the second half.
- The Tiger bench out-scored KU's bench, 25-2.
- The contest featured two ties and four lead changes.
- Mizzou knocked down 9-of-15 free throws compared to KU's 21-of-30 tally from the line.
- Mizzou continues its current three-game road swing at Texas A&M on Saturday in College Station, TX. Tip is set for 6 pm on the Mizzou Sports Network.
Missouri Player Notes
- Senior Jason Conley scored a team-high 20 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the floor.
- Conley was a perfect 6-of-6 from the free throw line and 2-of-3 from three point range.
- Conley is a perfect 12-of-12 from the free throw line over the course of the Tigers last three games.
- Conley also recorded a game-high three steals, two of which he turned into dunks.
- The 20 point performance by Conley is a season high for him. It is also his first 20-point effort of the season (obviously) and the third 20+ point game of his career at Mizzou
- 24 vs. Baylor (2004) - W
- 20 vs. Kansas State (2004) - W
- 20 vs. Kansas (2005) - L
- Sophomore Linas Kleiza was the other Tiger to reach double figures in scoring with 11 points. He also handed out three assists on the night.
- Conley and Kleiza combined to score 31 of the Tigers' 61 points on the night and pull down 10 of their 30 boards.
- Freshman Glen Dandridge made the second start of his career with his second straight appearance as a starter.
- Freshman Jason Horton played 36 minutes on the night. He has played at least 30 minutes in 12 of the Tigers 21 games. He scored nine points on 4-of-8 shooting on the night.
- Junior Jimmy McKinney started his 77th straight start for Mizzou despite a sprained left wrist he suffered in the first half of the Tigers' game with Kansas State.
- McKinney and fellow junior Kevin Young continue to be the only Tigers to have started all 21 games so far this season.
