Mizzou-Georgetown Game Notes
11/30/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Nov. 30, 2010
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1st Half
· Mizzou went with a new starting lineup tonight, as the fivesome of Michael Dixon, Marcus Denmon, Kim English, Laurence Bowers and Ricardo Ratliffe opened the game. It marked Ratliffe's first career start as a Tiger…
· Ratliffe was a factor early on as he contributed with four points…
· Georgetown came out hot, as the Hoyas hit seven of their first eight shots to hold a 16-9 lead at the first TV timeout…
· Justin Safford and Phil Pressey were the first subs of the night for Coach Mike Anderson, coming in at the 14:10 mark, with MU trailing, 16-11…
· At the second TV timeout, the Hoyas extended their lead to 23-13 at the 11:11 mark…
· Georgetown continued its torrid shooting pace and extended its lead to 33-17, thanks to hitting 13 of their first 16 shots (81%)…
· Mizzou's Marcus Denmon, playing in his hometown of Kansas City, had a hot hand early, as he hit each of his first four shots, including a pair of three-pointers, for 10 points…
· At the third TV timeout (7:17 mark), Georgetown held a 38-23 lead, thanks to its hot shooting, which included 15-of-19 on FGs (78%), including 6-of-10 from three-point range. The Tigers were shooting a respectable 58% (10-of-17 on FGs)…
· The Tigers hung tough and cut the Georgetown lead to 10, thanks to the third three-pointer of the evening in three tries by Denmon, at the 3:27 mark, to make it 47-37. That put Denmon at 13 points, matching his season scoring average already (13.8 ppg coming in), and gave him his third consecutive double-figure scoring game, and the fourth in six games this season…
· Denmon struck again at the 2:17 mark with his fourth three pointer to make it 51-42. A Ricardo Ratliffe conventional 3-point play with 1:15 left cut the deficit to 51-45…
· The half ended with the Tigers closing to within 54-47, after trailing by as many as 18 points at one juncture. The points by both teams were season highs in a first half of a Mizzou game – Mizzou's previous first-half high point total was 41 vs. North Florida and vs. LaSalle, while the MU opponent high in a first half was 41 by LaSalle…
· Georgetown hit 8-of-15 three-pointers in the half (53%), two more than MU had allowed in a game coming in (6 by three different opponents). The Hoyas ended the half shooting at a 71% clip from the floor (20-of-28 FGs)…
· The Tigers hit plenty of shots of their own in the half, connecting at a 55% clip from the floor overall (15-of-27), including a sterling 62% (5-of-8) from three-point range…
2nd Half
· Mizzou scored the first four points of the half to cut the Hoya lead to 54-51, but Georgetown stretched the lead back to eight points by the first TV timeout (15:24), at 65-57…
· A Michael Dixon three-pointer with 12:10 left cut the deficit to 71-70, and that's how the score stood at the 11:49 TV timeout mark…
· At the 11:49 mark, Mizzou had almost caught up with Georgetown in field goal shooting, as MU was at 59% at that point (25-of-42), while Georgetown was at 61% (27-of-44)…
· Mizzou clawed all the way back to take its first lead of the game at the 8:21 mark on Denmon's career-high-tying 5th three-pointer to make it 77-75. Georgetown answered right back with a three-pointer of their own to beat a dying shot clock to regain the lead at 78-77. That's how the score stood at the next TV timeout mark (7:03)…
· The Tigers tallied eight of the game's next 10 points, as they pushed to an 85-80 lead with 4:26 left, but Georgetown responded with a 5-0 scoring run – with all five points coming from Austin Freeman, to tie it up with 3:03 remaining…
· Marcus Denmon sank a pair of free throws coming out of the TV timeout to give MU an 87-85 lead. The points gave Denmon 24 for the game, which tied his career high at Nebraska in 2010…
· Denmon broke his career high with 0:43 seconds left on a breakaway layin off a feed from Michael Dixon to make it 91-87 Tigers…
· Georgetown hit a three-pointer just before the end of regulation to tie it up at 94-apiece, sending the game into overtime…
Overtime/Post-Game
· The Hoyas scored first in overtime, and eventually outscored Mizzou 17-8 in the extra period to pull away for the 111-102 win…
· It was MU's first 100-point game since scoring 100 vs. Texas-Pan American on Nov. 22, 2009. It was the first 100-point outing against the Tigers since Baylor tallied 100 in Waco, Texas on March 1, 2008…
· The loss broke a string of four straight overtime wins for Mizzou Coach Mike Anderson. The last overtime loss for the Tigers under Anderson was on Feb. 24, 2007 at Nebraska, when the Tigers dropped an 82-77 decision in overtime. Since then, Anderson won four straight overtime games, including OT wins last season at Texas Tech (94-89) and at Iowa State (69-67)…
· The last time MU was involved in a game where both teams scored 100 points was the epic 4-overtime win against Iowa State in Columbia on Jan. 13, 2001 (MU won, 112-109). The last time Mizzou played a game where both teams hit the century mark that went just one overtime or less was on Feb. 9, 1989, when 3rd-ranked Tigers lost at 5th-ranked Oklahoma, 112-105, in regulation…
· Denmon finished with a career-high 27 points, while Ratliffe also established a new career high with 22 points, eclipsing his previous best of 16 vs. North Florida…
· Dixon tied his career high with 17 points tonight, meaning that both of Mizzou's Kansas City hometown kids either broke or tied career highs…
· Matt Pressey tied his career best with 9 points on the evening as well…
· Five Tigers in all scored in double figures…
