Mizzou-MSU Postgame Notes
1/4/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
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- With the win over Mizzou, Mississippi State has now won all four meetings against the Tigers in the history of the two programs.
- Mississippi State, which came into the contest averaging an SEC-best 83.4 points per game, was limited to just 53 points on Sunday. Its previous low this season was 64 against Georgia on Friday. Mizzou has now held its last eight opponents to below their season average scoring. In fact, in that eight-game span, opponents are averaging 13.4 points below their season average when facing the Tigers.
- The 53 points allowed by Mizzou on Sunday are the fewest that the Tigers have ever allowed in a regular season SEC game since joining the league and match the fewest ever in an SEC game allowed by the TIgers (Mizzou held Vanderbilt to 53 in the SEC Tournament in 2012-13).
- After holding Mississippi State to just 29.1 shooting on Sunday, the Tigers have now held their last seven opponents to less than 40-percent shooting, including both foes that they have faced in SEC play.
- Sunday marked the 10th time this season that Mizzou has held its opponent to less than 60 points this season.
- Mizzou limited MSU to 28.6-percent shooting in the first half, the seventh time this season that the Tigers have limited their opponent to less than 30-percent shooting in the first half. It was also the third time in four games as well. It was the 11th half this season that the Tigers have limited their opponent to worse than 30-percent shooting as well. The Tigers then held MSU to 29.6 shooting in the second half, marking the 12th half holding an opponent under 30-percent this season. It was just the second time this season that a Tiger opponent has shot less than 30-percent in each half of a game. The other was against SEMO on Nov. 17.
- Junior Maddie Stock tallied a season-high 16 points on Sunday after not scoring in each of the Tigers' last two games. Her 16 points were two more than her previous four games combined (14).
- Senior guard Morgan Eye scored seven of Mizzou's first 13 points on Sunday.
- Eye pulled in seven rebounds in the first half, matching her season-high at that point, and she finished the game with 12 rebounds, a career-high.
-After forcing just 10 turnovers Friday night at Tennessee, Mizzou forced Mississippi State into 14 first-half turnovers on Sunday. The 14 turnovers are one more than MSU had in its entire game against No. 19 Georgia on Friday night. MSU finished the game with 22 turnovers, just two off of its season-high.
- Mizzou, which has made a living on limiting second-chance points this season, limited MSU to just nine second-chance points on Sunday. It was the seventh time that Mizzou has limited its opponent to single digit second-chance points this season.
