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Men's Basketball

Men's Basketball Takes On Oklahoma St. At Gallagher-Iba Arena On Monday

Feb. 3, 2001

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TIPOFF: 7:00 p.m. (central time).
ARENA: Gallagher-Iba Arena (13,611). Opened in 1938. OSU is 571-174 there, including 7-0 this season. OSU is 23-17 there vs. MU alltime.
RADIO: Tiger Network (Mike Kelly, play-by-play/Gary Link, color). Carried on more than 50 stations statewide, and on the Internet at www.mutigers.com.
TV: ESPN-Plus (Big 12 Network). Fred White, play-by-play, Paul Splittorff, color.
RANKINGS: Neither team is currently ranked. SERIES: MU leads, 67-35 overall, but OSU has won 3 of 4 meetings as part of the Big 12
COACHES:
Missouri: Quin Snyder (Duke `89), 32-19 at MU (2nd season), 32-19 overall (2nd season). Snyder is 0-1 vs. OSU and 0-1 vs. Eddie Sutton.
Oklahoma State: Eddie Sutton (Oklahoma State `58), 242-99 at OSU (11th season), 672-264 overall (31st season). Sutton is 1-0 vs. Quin Snyder and 12-9 vs. Missouri.
OFFICIALS: Will be announced prior to tipoff.

TIGERS, COWBOYS SQUARE OFF MONDAY IN RESCHEDULED GAME
The Missouri Tigers (14-6 overall, 5-2 in Big 12 Conference play) head to Stillwater, Okla., where they'll take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys (13-4, 4-2) Monday evening at 7 p.m. The game was moved from its original date of Feb. 3 to accommodate service arrangements for those lost in the tragic plane crash last Saturday in Colorado. Missouri has won two straight games entering the contest, and is coming off a 75-66 win over 3rd-ranked Kansas last Monday. The Tigers will face three games in seven days, beginning with Monday's tilt in Stillwater. Oklahoma State has not played since Jan. 27th, when they had a five-game winning streak broken at Colorado, where they lost, 81-71. It was later that evening on the return trip home that saw 10 lives lost in the fatal crash.

KANSAS RECAP

  • Missouri won for the fifth straight time at Hearnes against a top-10 ranked Kansas team. The others came in 2000 (Kansas was #7 at the time), 1998 (KU #3), 1997 (KU #1) and 1996 (KU #3).
  • Missouri held Kansas to 35.5% from the floor in the first half on the way to a 37-23 halftime lead. Kansas entered the game as the nation's top shooting team, at 51.3%. MU held the Jayhawks 19 points below their season scoring average of 85.3 points per game.
  • MU held a 17-point lead with 18:10 left in the game, but Kansas rallied to score 18 straight points and took a 44-43 lead with 12:20 left. After a couple of lead changes, MU took the lead, 47-46 on a layin by Arthur Johnson, a lead which the Tigers never relinquished.
  • Missouri outrebounded Kansas, 41-37, and snapped a streak in which they had been outboarded in seven straight games.
  • The Tigers sank 17-of-23 free throws (73.9%), and benefitted from Kansas' poor shooting night from the charity stripe, as the Jayhawks went just 7-of-18 (38.9%).
  • Kareem Rush had a superb performance, as he had game-high totals of 27 points and 11 rebounds. He had 18 of his points in the sec-ond half, and finished 9-of-17 from the floor.
  • Brian Grawer had a season-high 14 points, on the strength of 4-of-7 from three-point range. Eleven of his points came in the second half.

    REMEMBERING A FRIEND
    The Missouri Basketball family, as well as the entire University community, grieves for the family and friends who lost their loved ones last Saturday. Big 12 basketball SIDs, as well as many in the league community, will wear or-ange and black ribbons to remember those lost.

    EDITOR'S NOTE:
    Our profession lost a shining light and a gem of a person in OSU basketball SID Will Hancock. For anyone who never had the pleasure of meeting him, Will was truly one of the good people who would bend over backwards to lend a hand. In today's world that gets so hectic, Will was never too busy for anyone, and he was always sincerely interested when he asked, "How are you?" I always felt a sort of kinship with Will, as we were the same age and cut our teeth in the business at the same time. Simple geographics and schedules kept us from interacting as fre-quently as I would have liked, but I always knew he was there for me as a colleague, and most important as a friend. In my opinion, he was one of the most talented individuals we had not only in the conference, but nationwide. -- C.M.

    THE QUIN-TISENNTIALS
    The 15th head coach in Missouri basket-ball history, Quin Snyder is 32-19 in his second season as a head coach. He was named the national rookie coach-of-the-year by Basket-ball Times last season after leading the Tigers to an 18-13 record and an NCAA appearance. Snyder is 0-1 vs. Oklahoma State, as the 10th-ranked Cowboys won in Columbia last season by an 84-72 count. Snyder's mission is to take the Tiger pro-gram to the next level. And if that next level represents the Final Four of the NCAA Tour-nament, Snyder will be a repeat visitor. In 10 years at Duke, he took part in five Final Fours -- three as a player (1986, 88, 89) and two more as a coach (1994, 99). For those of you keeping score at home, that's exactly five more Final Fours than Mizzou has qualified for in its pre-vious 93 years. Snyder had served as Duke's associate head coach the previous two seasons, and was entrusted with numerous on-court coaching re-sponsibilities, as well as recruiting duties for the Blue Devils by Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski. He was widely credited with re-cruiting the group of student-athletes (includ-ing 1999 national player-of-the-year Elton Brand) at Duke who compiled a 37-2 record in 1998-99 and finished as NCAA runners-up.

    Game #20 -- Missouri 75, #3 Kansas 66
    Jan. 29, 2001 -- Columbia, Mo.
    Kareem Rush had 27 points and 11 rebounds for the Tigers, in a 75-66 victory over the Jayhawks. Brian Grawer added 14 points and was 4-for-7 from 3-point range and Clarence Gilbert had 12 for Missouri. The floor was named for former longtime coach Norm Stewart">Norm Stewart during a halftime ceremony, and after the game Stewart was given the game ball. Kansas erased a 17-point second-half deficit with an 18-0 run over a stretch of 5:50. Jeff Boschee had two 3-pointers in the run and Kirk Hinrich's 3-pointer gave the Jayhawks the lead for the first time at 44-43 with 12:20 left. Missouri quickly regained control. Rush scored eight points in a three-minute span as the Tigers pulled ahead 59-52 with 7:30 to go. Kansas, despite shooting 50 percent the second half, never got any closer than five points the rest of the way. Missouri held Kansas to 35.5 percent shooting in the first half, leading 37-23. The Tigers were 5-for-10 from 3-point range and Gilbert had 11 points. Kansas, which led the nation with 52 percent shooting coming into the game, began the game 2-for-12.

    Game #19 -- Missouri 66, Texas Tech 64
    Jan. 27, 2001 -- Columbia, Mo.
    Kareem Rush scored 23 points and hit the game-winning 3-pointer with 22 seconds to go as MU ended a three-game losing streak with a 66-64 victory over Texas Tech. The Tigers improved to 9-0 at home, but had a difficult time holding off Texas Tech, which rallied after shooting just 21 percent in the first half. Marcus Shropshire missed the first of two free throws with 6.6 seconds left as Texas Tech, which trailed 28-16 at the half but shot 59 percent the rest of the way, missed a chance to tie it. Clarence Gilbert added 14 points for Missouri. He added a free throw with 4.9 seconds to go and Rush stole the ball from Cliff Owens after Gilbert missed his second free throw to sew it up. Rush had 16 points in the second half. He drew two early fouls and played nine minutes in the first half. Three-point shooting helped Missouri survive. The Tigers were 8- for-17 overall and 6-for-9 after the break.