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| Kentucky | Mizzou Arena - Columbia, Mo. | Thursday, Jan. 29 / 8:00 p.m. CT |
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| Fan Info | @MizzouGameday | Buy Tickets | |
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| WHAT TO WEAR: | WEAR | GOLD |
TWEETABLE TIGER TRACKS...
• Mizzou Men's Basketball (7-12, 1-5) stays inside Mizzou Arena for the final week of January, hosting Kentucky (Thurs.) and Ole Miss (Sat.).
• The Tigers take on No. 1 Kentucky at 8 p.m., Thursday, with a live national broadcast on ESPN. Mizzou and Ole Miss meet up at 3 p.m., Saturday on FSN.
• Sophomore guard Wes Clark's 1.8 steals per game in SEC action currently ranks tied for No. 1 in the league.
• Senior guard Keith Shamburger's 3.8 assist/turnover ratio in SEC action ranks second in the conference.
• Mizzou's leading scorer, Johnathan Williams, III, recorded his fourth double-double of the season vs. Arkansas (15 pts., 10 reb.).
• Williams averaged just 5.8 points per game in 2013-14, but under head coach Kim Anderson, J3's average has more than doubled (12.6).
• The Tigers fell in the final minutes to Arkansas (Jan. 24), dropping a 61-60 result.
• Kentucky leads the all-time series vs. Mizzou, 7-0, with four of the meetings coming prior to 2000.
• Mizzou's freshmen have accounted for 38.8 percent of the team's minutes through 19 games.
• With the addition of sophomores, underclassmen have been playing 67.3 percent of the Tigers' minutes.
• 6 of Mizzou's top 8 scorers are underclassmen, with Shamburger and Post (8.6, 3.6) the only exceptions.
LAST TIME OUT...
• Another thriller was added to the history books in the still-growing Arkansas-Mizzou hoops rivalry, as the Razorbacks defeated the Tigers, 61-60, on Saturday, Jan. 24.
• Freshman guard Montaque Gill-Caesar led the way for the Tigers, finishing with a game-high 16 points, while shooting 3-for-3 on three-pointers. He has reached at least 15 points in seven games this season.
• Johnathan Williams, III got back into his scoring ways with his latest double-double effort. He had 15 points, 10 rebounds and 2 blocks. This is his seventh career double-double and fourth this season. He has reached double figures in scoring in 13 of 19 games this year.
• The Razorbacks came into this game averaging 83.5 points per game. The Tigers held them to a season-low 61 points.
• Mizzou also held Arkansas to 29.4 percent FG shooting in the second half.
• The Tigers have done a solid job of containing some of the top scorers in the SEC. The team held Michael Qualls to eight points on 3-of-15 shooting from the field. This comes one game removed from Qualls scoring a career-high 30 points on 10-of-16 FG shooting.
A LOOK AT THE OPPONENT... KENTUCKY
• Top-ranked Kentucky (19-0, 6-0) comes to Mizzou Arena with its pristine 2014-15 record still intact under sixth-year head coach John Calipari.
• UK is led in scoring by sophomore guard Aaron Harrison (11.6). Freshman guard Devin Booker follows that up with his 10.8 points per game.
• On the boards, the Wildcats are paced by junior forward Willie Cauley-Stein's 6.7 rebounds per game. Also in Cauley-Stein's neighborhood is teammate Karl-Anthony Towns, who averages 6.3 boards per game.
• Kentucky is 4-0 in away games this season, winning those games by an average margin of 12.8. On the road, UK has averaged 64.0 points per game.
• Over Kentucky's last five games, the squad has been led in scoring by Booker's 12.4 points per game. Harrison is right behind him with 12.0 points per game. Booker has shot well from deep in that stretch, hitting 10-of-19 three-pointers (52.6 percent).
• Mizzou trails the all-time series vs. Kentucky, 7-0. The Tigers and Wildcats have met just three times as fellow conference members.
VOTE FOR COACH ANDERSON...
• Mizzou head coach Kim Anderson has advanced to the second round of the four-round Infiniti Coaches' Charity Challenge. He is competing with 23 other NCAA Division I men's basketball coaches for a great cause: a $100,000 donation to charity. Anderson is representing Boys & Girls Clubs of Columbia, Missouri.
• Mizzou fans and those wishing to support the Boys & Girls Clubs of Columbia, Missouri, can vote for Anderson at www.espn.com/infiniti.
• As an official corporate partner of the NCAA, Infiniti will make total donations throughout the competition of $349,000. As coaches advance throughout the competition, donations totaling $249,000 will be awarded to each of their charities of choice; the farther they advance, the more money the coaches raise. The final winning coach will receive a total of $100,000 to benefit his charity of choice.
• The second round runs from Jan. 26 - Feb. 15, with the third round of voting cutting the field to 16 coaches.
