Feb. 28, 2007

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Missouri welcomes arch-rival Kansas to Mizzou Arens on Thursday for the final regular-season game for each team ... Mizzou is 11-4 at home this season and KU is 2-8 on the road, including a 1-6 mark against league teams ... MU will honor its seven senior athletes and two managers following the contest.

Mizzou-Kansas Series History
Missouri and Kansas meet on the hardwood for the 71st time on Thursday ... KU holds a 36-34 series lead with Mizzou having won 16 of 29 in Columbia ... MU is 11-7 against KU under Cindy Stein and has won three of the last four ... Kansas records list the series with an additional Jayhawk win on Nov. 25, 1973, in Springfield, Mo., but Missouri didn't officially sponsor women's basketball until the 1974-75 season.

Border Showdown Update
In the 2006-07 Border Showdown presented by the Midwest Ford Dealers, MU currently holds a 11-9.5 lead in the fifth year of the series ... Thursday's winner will earn 1.5 points for their school with any Big 12 Championship match-up earning a 0.5 bonus point for the victor.

Event	Winner (score)	 MU	KU	Score
VB	MU (3-0)	 1.5		1.5-0
Soccer	KU (4-0)		 3.0	1.5-3
WCC	MU (7th at Big 12)	 1.0		2.5-3
MCC	KU (3rd at Big 12)		1.0	2.5-4
WS/D	MU (187-111)	 1.5		4-4
VB	MU (3-1)	 1.5		5.5-4
FB	MU (42-17)	 3.0		8.5-4
MBB	KU (80-77)		1.5	8.5-5.5
MBB	KU (92-74)		1.5	8.5-7
WBB	MU (67-57)	 1.5		10-7
WS/D	KU (3rd at Big 12)		1.5	10-8.5
M Ind TF	MU (4th at Big 12)	 1.0		11-8.5
W Ind TF	KU (6th at Big 12)	 	1.0	11-9.5
WBB	1.5 points available

Who And When Are The Tigers Going To Play In The Big 12 Tournament?
Well, with two games still to be played on Thursday, there are four possible scenarios for the Tigers:
** With a Missouri win and Texas Tech loss...
MU officially ties for 7th with Texas Tech, Texas and Colorado
MU is the 9 seed and plays No. 8 Texas Tech at Noon - winner plays No. 1 TAMU
MU loses both tiebreakers with Texas and Texas Tech based on head-to-head record, but move ahead of Colorado based on the North Division record

** With a Missouri win and Texas Tech win...
MU officially ties for 8th with Texas and Colorado
MU is the 9 seed and plays No. 8 Texas at Noon - winner plays No. 1 TAMU
MU loses the tiebreaker with Texas based on head-to-head record, but move ahead of Colorado based on the North Division record

** With a Missouri loss and Texas Tech loss...
MU officially finishes alone in 10th
MU is the 10 seed and plays No. 7 Texas at 6 pm - winner plays No. 2 OU

**With a Missouri loss and Texas Tech win...
MU officially finishes alone in 10th
MU is the 10 seed and plays No. 7 Texas Tech at 6 pm - winner plays No. 2 OU

38 Wins Over Last Two Years Among Mizzou Highs
Missouri has won a combined 38 games since the start of last year - a figure that ranks as the second-highest 2-year total in the last 17 seasons ... dating back to 1990, only the Cindy Stein-coached teams in 1999-00 and 2000-01 won more games as they totaled 40 between them ... when looking at regular-season totals only, the current total of 37 is one more than the aforementioned pair of teams.

Mizzou `D' Shutting Down Teams When It Matters
Much has been said lately about Missouri's ability to close out ball games ... while the Tiger offense has remained strong during the last three games, it has been the defense that has stepped up during the current win streak ... in the last six minutes of the wins at Kansas, Nebraska and at home against K-State, MU has held the opposition to just 25 percent shooting (8-of-25) and 23.1 percent from outside (3-of-13) ... Missouri also had a decisive scoring run to keep the momentum in its favor ... against KU it was a 10-0 run that made it 57-46 with 6:16 left; at Nebraska is was another 10-0 run that gave the Tigers a 45-42 lead with 8:09 to play as they outscored the Huskers 20-11 the rest of the way; a 12-2 run on Wednesday kept KSU at arms length before securing an eight-point victory.

Tigers Now 5-4 Against North Division Schools
With Missouri's 69-61 win over Kansas State on Wednesday, it moved to 5-4 against North Division teams this season ... the Tigers will play their final North game at home on Thursday against Kansas ... a win then would go a long way in helping the Tigers with Big 12 Championship seeding tie-breakers that may involve Colorado and K-State as all three are within a game of each other with two to play ... in the head-to-head meetings, Mizzou split with both schools and CU swept K-State ... CU enters its final two games with Kansas and at Nebraska at 4-4 against the North ... K-State is 2-7 with a home game versus Iowa State on Saturday.