MISSOURI 70, Coppin State 61
12/2/2003 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Dec. 2, 2003
GAME NOTES
MISSOURI MEN'S BASKETBALL EXHIBITON
#4/5 MISSOURI 70, COPPIN STATE 61
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
GAME INFO
* Starters for the game
o MISSOURI - Sophomore Jimmy McKinney, Senior Travon Bryant, Senior Josh Kroenke, Senior Rickey Paulding, Senior Arthur Johnson ... same starters for game vs. Oakland ... the group is now 2-0 as starters
o COPPIN STATE - Darron Bradley, Jimmy Boykin, Chad Yates, Nicholas King, Raheem Scott
* Missouri won tip
* Attendance: 9,091
TEAM INFO
* Tonight's game marks the first regular season matchup for the Tigers in the final year using the Hearnes Center ... Missouri is now 396-68 at the Hearnes
* Head Coach Quin Snyder ... 86-49 at Mizzou after win
* The Tigers now lead the all-time series vs. Coppin State, 4-1 ... the Tigers have now won 20 games straight against non-ranked non-conference opponents at home ...
* Mizzou moves to 13-2 when ranked No. 4 in the AP poll, the last time Mizzou was No. 4 was in 1990 ... in 1989, the #4 Tigers went in to St. Louis and lost 101-91 to an unranked SLU team ... the last time Mizzou was in the top 5 was in the 2001-02 season, the Tigers lost to #15 Iowa in the Hearnes Center, 83-65, December 15, 2001 ...
INDIVDUAL FEATS
* With the first basket of the game for Missouri, senior Arthur Johnson jumped to a tie with Kim Anderson (73-77) for 20th place on the all-time Mizzou scoring list ... Johnson's 14 points makes his total 1,301 for his career and 18th in Mizzou History ... along with Kim Anderson, Johnson passed Ron Coleman (64-67) who ended his career with 1,295 points
* Johnson also jumped to No. 6 on the Tigers' all-time rebounding list, passing Jevon Crudup (91-94) ... his 9 rebounds brought his total to 879 for his career ...
* Johnson is also part of the 800-100-100-100 club, as he is one of three Tigers all-time to have 800 rebounds, 100 blocks, 100 steals, and 100 assists ... the other two on the list are Jevon Crudup (91-94) and Doug Smith (87-91)
* Freshman Spencer Laurie took a baseline charge with 11:31 to go in the first half to stop a possible easy lay-up by Coppin State's #33 Jimmy Boykin ... Laurie also scored his first points of collegiate career with a three-pointer with 9:53 to go in the first.
* Senior Rickey Paulding committed 6 turnovers in the first half, ending up with 7 in the game, a career-high ... his previous was 6 against Iowa State his freshman year.
* Sophomore Jimmy McKinney broke his free throws made consecutive streak, ending at 17, dating back to last year's Big 12 Tournament game vs. Nebraska ... McKinney went 4-of-5 from the line tonight.
* Senior Travon Bryant was close to breaking his career-high 18 points in a game; however, he ended the game with 16.
GAME RUNS & STREAKS
* Mizzou's Johnson grabbed four of the Tigers' offensive rebounds by the first media timeout at 15:48 in the first half.
* First substutions for the Tigers ... junior Kevin Young, freshman Linus Kleiza, and freshman Thomas Gardner.
* The Tigers committed six turnovers in the first ten minutes of the game.
* Over 3:59 in the first half starting at the 13:22 mark, the Tigers went on a 9-2 run to take the lead and make the score 16-12 with 9:23 to go.
* Coppin State went on a 14-0 streak of their own over 2:34 in the first half to make the score in favor of the Eagles, 32-24 with 1:43 remaining in the first ... over that streak Mizzou made four turnovers (three by Paulding), Coppin State shot 5-of-6 from the field including 4-of-4 from behind the three-point arc ... the Eagles' Nicholas King scored 6 of his first half 16 points over the run span.
* At Halftime ... the Tigers' trailed 32-28, the last time the Tigers trailed a non-ranked, non-conference opponent at the half was December 9, 2000 against St. Louis Univ., Mizzou trailed by 7 at halftime, rallied, and won the game 77-73 ... the Eagles had hit 7-of-12 three pointers (58.3%) ... Coppin State scored 15 of their first half 32 off of Mizzou's 14 turnovers ... the Tigers did have the Eagles outrebounded in the first half 19-10, alone Missouri had 10 offensive rebounds resulting in 11 second chance points.
* Mizzou went on a 20-7 run over 6:53 in the second half after a Kleiza dunk with 16:28 remaining in the second half ... over the span Johnson scored eight points, Travon Bryant added six ...
* Mizzou shot 60.9% from the field in the second half (14-23).
