Jan. 21, 2003
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* From 8:48 to 3:51 in the 1st half the Tigers forced 5 Iowa State turnovers on 7 possessions
* Junior Rickey Paulding has scored 10 or more points in all of Missouri's games
* Junior Arthur Johnson scored in double-digits for the 13th time out of Missouri's 14 games and for 7 games in a row, the only single-digit performance came against Illinois, when the Illini held Johnson to 8 points...Johnson now has 979 career points, which places him 34th on the all-time list (only 33 have eclipsed the 1,000 point plateau), tonight he passed Brian Grawer (965 pts.), AJ is now averaging just under 12 points per game in his career...Johnson also scored his 6th straight double-double and his 10th on the season.
* Missouri went on a 13-0 run in the 2nd half from 6:41 to 2:46, over that time MU shot 5-of-9 from the field and forced the Cyclones to turn the ball over 3 times and miss 5 shots
* MU continued the following streaks: Home wins (9), wins over non-ranked teams (12), wins when entering the game with a record of 10-3 (7)
* Missouri dropped 10 spots in the latest AP poll, from 11 to 21...That's the largest in-season poll drop in MU history and the largest drop in polls between games...The previous record (for between games) was 9 spots, when in 1955 Missouri dropped from #8 to #12 to #17...on January 19th, 1955 #8 Missouri lost to non-ranked Kansas State at home 67-78...the following game actually occurred 12 days later on February 1, 1955 when, then 10-3, #17 Missouri played in their 14th game of the season at Iowa State and won 84-67...Missouri is currently 10-3 and is playing game #14 in the 2002-03 season, and will play Iowa State tonight, but this time it's at home...since the break between the KSU-ISU game was 12 days another poll came out before Missouri had the chance to play Iowa State, that poll came out on January 24th, 1955 and had the Tigers at #12...in other words, Missouri lost 5 spots on the poll without playing a game...so, that's why 9 is the previous record for drops in the poll between games...the previous record for all poll drops was 7, when last year #10 Missouri lost to DePaul on December 29, 2001, 62-63 in Chicago and then fell to #17 in the poll....Missouri at #17 was able to close out a 3-game losing streak when they beat Coppin State at home on January 2nd, 2002, 74-47