When Dennis Gates entered the locker room after Missouri's loss to Texas on Tuesday, Peyton Marshall told him he already said what he needed to say.

Marshall, a freshman center, never played in the game against the Longhorns, but the leadership qualities of Gates lived through the underclassman in that moment.

"Peyton Marshall had the loudest voice in that locker room," Gates said Saturday. "He was pretty much talking as if it was me. I credit our team for listening and empowering that young man who sees the game the way that he sees it."

Missouri responded in the following days, as the team's practices and film sessions resembled what Marshall embodied in his postgame speech. Not dwelling in their past performance, the Tigers stormed to a 83-75 win against Mississippi on Saturday.

More from Saturday's win:

Total embarrassment. Houston is totally getting hosed. Foul after foul after foul not being called.

Things just never change and never will. Anyone taking a team into that den of thieves deserves to be crapped on.

Hope like Hell we never play those Csker’s in Ahole field again. Really hope we never play them again. Win or lose I feel dirty just letting them in our building.