Happy Days are Here Again!

It's been two months since my beloved Missouri Tigers had won a basketball game.  But, today they took on our neighbors to the south and beat the Arkansas Razorbacks 83-78!

It's been a miserable year for the Tigers.  With the win today they improve to 6-16.  My guess is they won't get to ten wins this year.  But, a win is a win.  And beating Arkansas makes it even sweeter.  The Razorbacks have been designated Mizzou's rival in the SEC.  (Maybe the SEC sees it that way, In my mind the lowlife Kansas Jayhawks will always be Missouri's arch rival.  It's just too bad the gutless chicken-hawks refuse to schedule Mizzou).

And I'm happy for Missouri head coach Kim Anderson.  Anderson has busted his butt since being hired three years ago to resuscitate a program that had been left in the dumpster.  I hope the powers that be in the Missouri athletic department honor his contract and give Coach Anderson another year to turn it around.

Tigers Put it all Together

I won't dwell on this but my beloved Missouri Tigers basketball team put together two solid halves tonight and smoked the Arkansas Razorbacks 93-63.  The Tigers led 48-22 at half, in what I believe was the team's best half of the year.  Mizzou dominated Arkansas on the boards and at the Free-Throw line.

Missouri finishes it's home season with a perfect 16-0 record.  The 22-8 Tigers complete their regular season in Knoxville on Saturday afternoon when they take on the Tennessee Volunteers.

Reporting Fact and Reporting Gossip

In the past month, the Missouri Tigers played poorly and exited both the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments early. It didn't come as a surprise, because for the last three weeks of the season they played selfishly and out of control. I am not sure why or how that happened, but the head coach of the Tigers, Mike Anderson left town and took the head job at Arkansas. So, the Tigers are looking for a new coach. I have no idea who will get the job, but I hope it is filled quickly so the recruiting process can continue. If you use Twitter or other social media, some of the so called experts blew it this week when they told their followers that it was going to be Purdue coach Matt Painter. Obviously that did not happen. The Columbia Tribune has an excellent article on how several outlets proclaimed Painter the new head coach earlier this week. To read the story CLICK HERE to get to the Columbia Daily Tribune's website.