Feb. 17, 2006
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at Colorado (8-17, 2-10)
Saturday, Feb. 18, 2006 - Boulder, Colo.
TIPOFF: 8:00 p.m. CST (7 p.m. MST).
ARENA: Coors Events Center (11,064). Opened in 1979. MU is 171-194 (.468) all-time on the road, including 6-18 (.250) in Boulder.
RADIO: KFRU-AM 1400/KLIK-AM 1240 (David Lile, play-by-play / Edith Thompson, color) and available to affiliates of the Tiger Network.
TV: None. NOTE - This is a change from the schedule released at the start of the season!
ONLINE: Live audio available via Yahoo! subscription at mutigers.com.
RANKINGS: Mizzou is receiving votes in both the Associated Press and Coaches polls; Colorado is not receiving votes.
SERIES: Colorado leads, 34-24, including 18-6 in Boulder. Mizzou has won the last two, including a 69-49 win in Columbia on Jan. 18, and a 58-55 win in Boulder last year.
COACHES:
MIZZOU: Cindy Stein (Illinois '84), 130-103 at MU (eighth season) and 195-128 overall (11th season).
COLORADO: Kathy McConnell-Miller (Virginia '89), 8-17 at Colorado (1st season) and 99-105 overall (seventh season).
TIGER WOMEN GO FOR FIRST BACK-TO-BACK WINS IN BOULDER SINCE 1985
The Mizzou women's basketball team (18-6, 8-4 Big 12), just two wins away from tying its best-ever Big 12 Conference record and securing its first 20-win regular season since 1990, tries to get halfway there beginning Saturday with a game at Colorado (8-17, 2-10).
The Tigers are coming off of a four-point win at Oklahoma State on Wednesday in an escape that would have made Houdini proud, while Colorado has been off from competition since a 92-65 non-conference win over Northern Colorado on Monday. CU's last Big 12 game was Saturday, when the Buffs lost at Texas Tech by 20.
LAST TIME OUT: MIZZOU 69, OKLAHOMA STATE 65
EeTisha Riddle canned a baseline jumper with 21 seconds left, and LaToya Bond hit a pair of free throws to ice the game as the Mizzou women escaped Gallagher-Iba Arena with a 69-65 win Wednesday night.
SERIES VS. COLORADO
Colorado leads the all-time series, 34-24, including an 18-6 margin in Boulder. Mizzou won at Colorado for the first time in 15 years last season, 58-55, on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from LaToya Bond. It was the same score of its previous win in 1990.
SCOUTING THE BUFFALOES
CU is led by the inside-outside combo of sophomore F Jackie McFarland and junior G/F Jasmina Ilic. McFarland leads the team in scoring (17.7 ppg) and rebounding (9.2 rpg), while Ilic averaged 14.8 ppg. Senior G Whitney Law is nearly also in double-figure scoring (9.8 ppg), and dishes out a team-best 4.0 assists a game.
McFarland (29 points, 13 rebounds) and Anna Nedovic (15 points, 13 rebounds) each posted double-doubles in Monday's non-conference win vs. Northern Colorado.
As was the case entering the teams' first meeting in Columbia on Jan. 18, Colorado has yet to put together back-to-back wins this season, yet looked impressive in sweeping Kansas for their two league victories. The Buffs also suffered close five-point losses to Texas and Kansas State in back-to-back games three weeks ago.
TIGERS EXCEED LAST YEAR'S WIN TOTAL
Of all the measures of the success of this year's team, the most compelling might be this: With the win at Oklahoma State on Wednesday, Mizzou bumped its win total to 18 this season; the Tigers had 11 wins all of last year (11-18). In addition, the eighth Big 12 win of the season exceeded last year's entire season total (4-12), and is just two wins off Mizzou's all-time Big 12 best of 10, set in the 2000-01 Sweet 16 season.
Mizzou has won 17 of its last 21 games. Mizzou's 18-6 start is just three games off the best in school history through 24 games; it trails only the 21-3 start by the 1983-84 Tigers and the 19-5 starts from the 1982-83 and 1977-78 squads. In addition, the Tigers' 8-4 conference start is the best in their 10 years in the Big 12, and just three games off the all-time team best set by the 1984 Big Eight squad.