Feb. 24, 2004
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GAME NOTES
MISSOURI MEN'S BASKETBALL
MISSOURI 93, #6/#6 OKLAHOMA STATE 92 (2OT)
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
GAME INFO
* TIP - Missouri wins (the opening) toss after OSU's Joey Graham knocked the ball out-of-bounds
* ATTENDANCE - 13,233
TEAM INFO
* TEAM RECORDS - The Tigers move to 14-10 and 8-5 in the Big 12, the Tigers have won five in-a-row and are fourth in the Big 12 Standings ... the Cowboys fall to 21-3, 11-2 in the Big 12, breaking an eleven game win streak
* OVERTIME! - The last game to go overtime for the Tigers was January 20, 2004, when the Tigers took Texas to overtime in a 75-69 loss
* DOUBLE OVERTIME!! - This is the first Missouri game to have multiple overtimes since the four overtime game with #16 Iowa State in the Hearnes Center, January 13, 2001 ... the Tigers won that game 112-109 ... overall this is the Tigers' 18th game with multiple overtimes ... the Tigers are also 9-0 at home when going more than one overtime
* THE SERIES - MU now leads, 70-37
* FACTOID OF THE DAY - This is the second game in a row that the Hearnes Center has seen double-overtime games ... on Sunday, the women's basketball team took #8 Kansas State to double-overtime in a 93-90 MU loss ... how 'bout that for the twilight basketball days at the Hearnes?
* FYI - Can you believe that this is the fourth double-overtime game in the MU-OSU series, Missouri holds the advantage in those games, 3-1 ... against no other team have the Tigers had so many multiple overtime games ... two have occurred at the Big 8 tournament ... on February 26, 1984, the Tigers won 65-64 in the Hearnes Center over the Cowboys in double-overtime
* STAT TRACK - Free-Throws in the two-overtimes OSU - 8-12 (67%), MU - 9-13 (69.2%) ... more free-throws were shot in the two overtimes than the two regulation halves combined
* FOUL OUTS - OSU's Terrence Crawford with 30.3 seconds remaining in double-overtime
* SIMILAR DATES/SIMILAR OCCURANCES - On February 26, 2003, the unranked Tigers defeated #3 Oklahoma 67-52 ... the last time Missouri's student section flooded the floor
* MOVIN' ON UP - With the Tigers win and a Nebraska win over Texas Tech, Missouri moves to fourth in the Big 12 Standings
* QUIN - Tiger Coach Quin Snyder moves to a 98-59 all-time record at Missouri, with three regular season games remaining, Coach Q could pass the 100 win mark in only his fifth season
* HALF-AND-HALF - The Tigers move to 11-2 this season when they lead at halftime ... Snyder is 73-15 in his career when leading at the half
Updated Big 12 Standings Big 12 Rank School W L Pct. 1 Oklahoma State 11 2 .846 2 Texas 11 2 .846 3 Kansas 9 4 .692 4 Missouri 8 5 .615 5 Colorado 7 5 .583 6 Texas Tech 7 6 .538 7 Oklahoma 6 6 .500 8 Iowa State 5 7 .417 9 Nebraska 5 8 .385 10 Kansas State 4 8 .333 11 Baylor 2 10 .167 12 Texas A&M 0 12 .000
INDIVDUAL FEATS
* Rickey Paulding scored 31 points, a season high
* Arthur Johnson scored a season-high 29 points, previous was 23 vs. UNLV
* AJ also had a season-high in rebounds with 13
* AJ now has 43 career double-doubles, one shy of Drew Gooden (Kansas) on the all-time Big 12 list
* AJ with five blocks, moves to 241 career blocks
* AJ moves into eighth all-time on the Missouri scoring list, with 1618, passing Jon Sunvold (80-83, 1597pts.)
* Paulding moves into ninth all-time with 1,601, passing Kareem Rush (00-02) and Sunvold
* Paulding also passed Brian Grawer to third all-time in Missouri history with 503 three-point field goal attempts