Mizzou-Kansas State Post Game Notes
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Jan. 9, 2010
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Missouri Basketball Post Game Notes
Missouri (13-3) vs. Kansas State (13-2)
Jan. 8, 2009 - Columbia, Mo.
Game Notes
Final Score - Missouri: 74, K-State: 68
Attendance- 13,824
Leading Scorers- MU: Taylor, Denmon: 14 each , K-State: Pullen 21
Double-Doubles - None
Ties/Lead Changes- Eight ties, 12 lead changes
Mizzou Field Goal Percentage - 43.5-percent
First Half Notes: Score at Halftime: Mizzou 36, K-State 33
- Mizzou opened the half on connecting on each of its first two 3-point attempts - the first of which came from Justin Safford and second from Kim English. In fact, Mizzou started the game connecting on three of its first four shots, assisting on two of the buckets. Mizzou opened a 10-5 lead in that span.
- K-State used a 9-1 run following the first media timeout to take an 18-15 lead until a second-chance lay-up from English pulled the Tigers to within one just before the second media timeout.
- K-State extended its run to 22-7 as it held Mizzou without a field goal from the 12:03 mark until the 7:21 mark when Laurence Bowers hit a running lay-up.
- That lay-up sparked a Mizzou 15-2 run that gave Mizzou the lead back at 36-33. In fact, Mizzou held K-State scoreless in the last 6:18 of the first half.
- Mizzou shot 21 free throws in the first half, connecting on 13 of them. That was the same amount of free throw attempted by K-State.
- The Tigers out-rebounded K-State, 21-13, in the first half.
- Zaire Taylor connected on all six of his free throws in the first half. Excluding his contributions, Mizzou was 7-15 from the charity stripe in the first half.
- The first half featured four lead changes and only one tie.
- The 33 points in the first half for K-State was its least since scoring only 30 on Dec. 8 against Xavier.
- Eight Tigers scored points in the first half.
- K-State's Denis Clemente shot just 3-12 from the floor and 1-7 from 3-point range in the first half. He came into the game connecting on nearly 40-percent of his field goals and 30-percent of his 3-point attempts.
Second Half Notes:
- The second half saw the two teams combine for 13 fouls in the first 8:06 on the season half. The teams scored a combined 22 total points in that span as K-State was in the bonus by the second media timeout. Both teams were at the 11:45 mark of the half.
- K-State regained the lead at the 9:28 mark of the second half after a 3-point shot from Clemente, making the score 51-48. K-State added another hoop to give it a 12-2 run.
- The two teams combined to shoot 39 free throws in the second half.
- After combining to commit just 16 turnovers in the first half, the two teams turned the ball over a combined 25 times, highlighted by 14 from Kansas State.
- The second half featured seven ties and eight lead changes.
Post Game Notes
- Mizzou's home court winning-streak has now been extended to 30 games, the second-longest streak in the nation
- Mizzou's win snaps K-State's 10-game winning streak.
- The teams combined to shoot 73 total free throws, 43 of which came from the Tigers. The teams also combined to commit 56 fouls in the game.
- Mizzou forced K-State into 21 turnovers due in large part to 11 steals. Six different players finished the game with at least one steal for Mizzou.
- Mizzou is now 12-2 in Big 12 Conference openers at home since the inception of the league.
- Mizzou is now 5-2 against top-25 opponents inside Mizzou Arena since topping No. 22 Kansas State on Feb. 2, 2008.
- The win is the Tigers' 10th-in-a-row over Big 12 competition at Mizzou Arena.
- Mizzou had six blocks in the game.
- Mizzou's bench pitched in 30 points on the game, highlighted by 27 combined points from Marcus Denmon and Laurence Bowers. Mizzou has now had a double-digit scorer off the bench in 13 different games this season.
- The starting lineup of Tiller, Taylor, English, Ramsey and Bowers is now a team-best 5-1 on the season.
- Zaire Taylor was one of two Tigers to post a team-high 14 points in the game. The 14 points are his most since netting 16 against Oregon. Nine of his 14 points came from the charity stripe as he connected on 9-10 attempts to lead the team.
- Marcus Denmon scored 14 points as well, nine of which came in the second half. Seven of those came in the last five minutes of the half as the Tigers made their run.
- Mizzou out-rebounded the Wildcats, 35-30.
