March 11, 2005
Missouri Game Notes - Big 12 Tournament - Rd. 2
Mar. 11, 2005
Kemper Arena - Kansas City, MO
Final - No. 17 Oklahoma 83, Missouri 79
Missouri Team Notes vs. Oklahoma
- Missouri is now 16-16 overall.
- It has gone 14-4 at home, 1-8 on the road and 1-4 in neutral court battles.
- Mizzou is now 9-2 this season in games played during the day.
- Mizzou falls to 3-4 on the year vs. teams ranked in the Associated Press Top 25.
- The last six contests between OU and MU have been decided by six points for less.
- Tiger Coach Quin Snyder is now 116-79 overall during his six year tenure at Mizzou.
- Coach Snyder is now 8-6 in Big 12 Tournament games.
- Mizzou faced a 13-4 rebounding deficit in the first 10 minutes of the game; at halftime the deficit was down to two (19-17).
- As a team, the Tigers knocked down 33-of-36 free throws, setting a new Big 12 Tournament mark for accuracy at 91.7 percent on the day.
- Mizzou made a school tying record 23 consecutive free throws during the contest. The effort matched the 1996-97 Tiger team which made 23 in a row at Kansas State.
- The contest with OU featured 8 lead changes and six ties.
Missouri Player Notes vs. Oklahoma
- A Kevin Young tip-in of a Linas Kleiza miss at 5:27 of the first half sparked Mizzou to an 11-0 run which cut the OU lead from 16 points to five with 2:13 left in the first half.
- The 33 points by sophomore forward Linas Kleiza tied the Mizzou record for points by a single-player in a Big 12 Tournament game; Kareem Rush set the mark versus Tech Tech in 2001.
- The 33-point outing was a career best for Kleiza along with his 17-of-19 effort at the free throw line.
- Kleiza's 33 points scored was the most points by a Tiger since the 2003 NCAA Tournament second round when Rickey Paulding dumped in 36 points in an overtime loss to Marquette.
- Kleiza was remarkable in the second half of the contest as he scored 23 of his 30 points on 4-of-7 shooting from the field and 13-of-14 accuracy from the free throw line.
- Over the course of the last four games, Kleiza has averaged 20.5 points and 9.5 rebounds per game.
- Jimmy McKinney made a career-high 10 free throws and equaled a career-best with 10 attempts on his way to 14 points on the afternoon.