Sam Snelling

When Mizzou scheduled a true road game against a pretty likely NCAA Tournament team to open the season, it left open the possibility of the program losing its 20th game in a row. Odds going into the game favored Memphis, and for the first 20 minutes it looked like Dennis Gates team was ready to wipe the slate clean of last seasons failure. But a big second half surge from Memphis and the Missouri offense going dormant meant, at least for a few more days, the streak carries on.

As much as Oklahoma fans refuse to admit it, Missouri and OU are rivals.

Every so often I’ll venture into the comments on game threads. And one of my main takeaways is I feel like sometimes people don’t read what we write.

Every game is different. What you hope is for your team to build off each one and impvoe in areas where they weren’t good. Going into the contest against Eastern Washington I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I hoped to see more of the same good defense just with fewer made outside shots from their opponent. It didn’t kick off that way. Against Howard Mizzou dominated early but found their opponent hanging in with their outside shotmaking.

Prepare to have Darude’s Sandstorm blasted into your brain for 4 hours.

That was a crime.

I wanted to write about the unbelievable catch Luther Burden III made to put Missouri back in the lead. I wanted to be able to write about another Brady Cook comeback and game winning drive. And maybe even talk about Eli Drinkwitz and his close game magic the last few years.

The Morning Commute for Friday November 22, 2024.

By Sam Snelling @SamTSnelling Nov 22, 2024, 9:00am CST 1 Comment / 1 New

The starters came out flat, but the subs did some walloping.