MU-Baylor Game Notes
2/21/2004 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 21, 2004
Team Notes
- Mizzou is now 13-10 and 7-5 in the Big 12. The Tigers are 9-3 at home, 4-5 on the road and 0-2 in neutral court games. Mizzou is 22-4 at the Hearnes Center over the past two years.
- The Tigers have now won four straight games. This is Tigers' longest winning streak since last January when they defeated Valparaiso, Iowa, Centenary and Baylor from Dec. 30-Jan. 11.
- The Tigers have now won four road games, eclipsing their total of four from last season.
- Mizzou outrebounded the Bears, 34-22. The Tigers have outrebounded their opponents by an average of 9.5 rebounds per contest during their current four-game winning streak.
- The Tigers shot 49.0 percent from the field (25-of-51), marking the fifth straight contest they have shot better than 45.0 percent from the field.
- Mizzou is 2-0 against teams from the Big 12 South this season on the road and 3-1 against those teams overall.
- Pending the outcome of the Colorado-Kansas State and Oklahoma-Texas games, the Tigers are tied for fourth in the Big 12 with Texas Tech at 7-5 in the Big 12.
- The Tigers face No. 7 Oklahoma State on Tuesday in Columbia with tip set for 7 p.m. CST on ESPN+ (KMIZ in Columbia). Mizzou has won two of the last three matchups between the two squads.
- Oklahoma State, who currently leads the Big 12 at 20-2 and 10-1 in the conference, will be the Tigers seventh ranked opponent of the year. The Tigers are 1-5 against those teams ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 at the time the contest was played.
Individual Notes
- Junior Jason Conley was brilliant for Mizzou, scoring a game and career-high 24 points on 10-of-14 shooting (6-of-8 from inside the arc) from the field including 4-of-6 from three. He also grabbed four steals in 31 minutes off the bench.
- During the Tigers' current four-game winning streak, Conley has led the squad averaging 16.8 points per contest while knocking down 59.1 percent of his shots while playing just 23.3 minutes off of the bench. He has also hit 13-of-24 three point shots (54.2 percent) and has averaged 5.8 rebounds per contest.
- Rickey Paulding also had a quality game with 15 points and four assists. He was money from the free throw line hitting 9-of-11 free throws including 6-of-8 attempts in the second half.
- Tiger big men Travon Bryant (11 pts., 6 boards) and Arthur Johnson (9 pts., 6 boards) teamed for 20 points on 9-of-14 shooting from the field.
- A.J has knocked down 28 of his last 51 shots (54.9 percent) while Travon has hit 17 of his last 26 shots (a scorching 65.4 percent). Both of those stats samplings were taken over the course of the Tigers last four games.
- Johnson moved into 9th place on the Mizzou scoring charts on Saturday and now has 1,589 points. He passed his former teammate and current Los Angeles Laker Kareem Rush on the chart, who had 1,584 points during his three year career at Mizzou.
- Following Johnson's six rebound performance against BU, he needs just 28 more boards to become the Tigers' all-time leading rebounder.
- Johnson and Bryant both continue to dominate the career blocks list. Arthur now holds an 86-block lead over the 2nd place shot blocker in MU history with 235 blocks while Travon is in fifth place on the charts with 107 career swats.
- Paulding is still in 11th on the list with 1,570 career points following his 15-point outing against Baylor. He is now chasing Rush in 10th place with 1,584 points.
