Full transcript from Gates, Gomillion, Honor and Kobe Brown

On my way to press conference right now for more info.

Not to get ahead of ourselves. Everyone knows you can lose to anyone in march. Utah St is a decent team, but let's be honest. If Mizzou isn't playing terrible we all expect to win that one.

If Mizzou can beat Arizona I can see them getting to the Elite 8.

Kobe Brown, Tre Gomillion and Nick Honor are here. Gates will be next

We will have the press conference transcript and multiple stories this afternoon but going to watch Mizzou practice first for 30-40 minutes

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If you're looking for a reason to relive that moment again.

Lets go SEMO!

Mizzou is in big trouble. Breathing on an opponent is a foul. If this is the standard, Hodge will foul out before the under 16 in the 2nd half.

-The Aggies started their 40-minutes practice with, you guessed it, 15 minutes of stretching and literally walking in a circle lol.

-After that they got straight into some pick and roll drills, going 2-on-2 and 3-on-3 with some assistant coaches. The centers don't have the green light from outside, but the smaller forwards like Sean Baristow and Taylor Funk do. They had them do a few reps where they slip out of the screen to pop beyond the arc.
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-They do like their bigs to cut in from the weakside and hit them either with a lob or a dump-off at the rim. That seemed like one of the ways Alabama got Charles Bediako involved.

-They went through a drill where they played 5-on-0 just kind of whipping the ball around. 62.3% of Utah State field goals have been assisted on this season, which ranks 10th in the country according to KenPom. Ball movement is a big priority with them.

-They spent a long time working on catch-and-shoot 3s. I couldn't tell you if it was good or bad. There was at least one corner 3 that hit the side of the backboard for whatever that's worth.

-They started shooting free throws with around 12 minutes left on the clock. And then after that, it was pretty much an open shootaround. I had to leave early to go catch Mizzou's media session.

-Mason Falslev got very excited when the band started playing "Uptown Funk" by Bruno Mars.

-Mizzou just got on the court, I'll let y'all know what I see

Going to the cards Mets game tomorrow at the Mets facility then Thursday's game at Roger Dean. Have my young kids going and would love to get some autographs. Any suggestions on how to make that happen would be appreciated!

I know some of this majority of you won’t care but praying for a good rest of the weeks. First of all I am praying for a great tiger Thursday and Saturday making way to the sweet 16. Lastly I am hoping I have a great interview in mid Missouri this afternoon. I live in southern Illinois and going to be able to move out of this hell hole and back to gods country! If you don’t mind sending some good vibes and prayers for me today that would be much appreciated. Fight tiger!! M..I..Z 🐅

It’s dark. We are here. Interviews and practices start at 1020 tomorrow. We will cover those for both teams, write some stuff and do a show at some point tomorrow

Mizzou in wins: 257/645, 39.8%
Avg: 10.7 of 26.9

Mizzou in losses: 52/212, 24.5%
Avg: 5.8 of 23.6

Missouri made more than 7 threes in only one loss (the home game against A&M). They never made 10 in a loss.

Utah State in wins: 260/623, 41.7%
Avg: 10 of 24

Utah State in losses: 61/193, 31.6%
Avg: 7.6 of 24.1

Utah State lost two games in which it made 10 threes

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I'm beginning to think we might have an actual QB competition this Fall.

The difference in how The Ringer and The Athletic are covering us in the tourney is the perfect summation of how nobody has known what to do with us all year. You can look at the team through two different lenses and see an extremely underrated team and a particularly overrated team. I know it's unlikely either of these blurbs is new to anyone here at this point, but here they are one more time for fun:


From The Athletic:
Killer Rating: 52.8

Okay, here it is, lock it in: Your first pick to break brackets in the second round is Missouri. The Tigers, after a decade of mediocrity or worse in the SEC, are likely to land a seed around the 8-line, and with one of the highest Killer Ratings we’ve ever seen, they’d make a lethal Round 2 underdog.

It took one year for coach Dennis Gates, whose nicknames from colleagues include “The Sheriff” and “relationship collector”, to turn things around at Cleveland State, and he’s rebuilt Missouri even more quickly. Under Gates, the Tigers often look like they’re running the old Princeton offense on speed, with series of accurate passes leading either to quick long-distance shots or open space near the basket for big man Kobe Brown. Taking boatloads of threes (43.5% of FGA, ranking 41st in the NCAA) and making them at a 36.2% clip (ranking 67th), and shooting even more effectively inside (56.4%, ranking 11th), Missouri scores 120 adjusted points per 100 possessions, ninth-best in the country.


From The Ringer:

Worst Seeding: Utah State–Mizzou​

They should let Las Vegas seed the NCAA tournament. The athletic directors on the NCAA selection committee won’t lose their suits and ties if they screw things up, but sportsbooks have to be right. And Vegas seems to think that the selection committee not only mis-seeded one matchup, but also outright flipped the odds: 10-seed Utah State is a 2.5-point favorite over 7-seed Missouri.

Kenpom has the Aggies as the 18th-best team in the country, by far the highest of any double-digit seed, while Missouri is 51st—not only below all the other 7-seeds, but lower than every 8-, 9-, and 10-seed, as well. These are two of the worst seedings in the entire field—and they’re in the same matchup, overselling one squad and underselling the other.

Personally I love it – if you're not going to be a blue blood, then break the mold and be different. I love that we are embodying that. There is no bad coverage if you win, in my opinion.

Really excited for this one!

Got family members and friends who watch the Kansas game and one football game a year buying Mu gear and saying how excited they are for thursday. I had season tickets in 2016-2017 watching them lose to north carolina central and lipscomb, where were you clowns then.

News, notes, and highlights from some of the notable weekend visitors Missouri had on campus

Utah State press conferences: 1020-1050 (Pacific)
Utah State practice: 11-1140
Mizzou press conferences: 1150-1220
Mizzou practice: 1230-110

We'll have tons of coverage from that for you guys, then we'll go live at 5 Pacific

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Any time they mention a kid coming from Missouri, they always talk about "we hear that Tennessee and Oklahoma are in the running," almost like there is no D1 school in state that they're likely also considering. When a kid goes to visit Tennessee, all of the crystal ball predictions assume that it'll be Tennessee, even if they've visited como like 6 times before Tennessee even thought to consider a kid from the show me state. It's just remarkable and I don't even know why I try to get recruiting news from other websites (Great work Sean and Gabe, btw, love your ish). I know the answer is "cause we don't get clicks" but essentially some of these people are helping schools with their own recruiting by promoting their brand and ignoring others. It drives me nuts.

Anyway, complaining over. Also hi, I'm new here, but not to the love/hate relationship we all find ourselves in.

*Edit* I'm sure Gabe and Sean are friends with some of these folks so if I'm not being fair please correct me. I'm probably not being fair but I'm heated.

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Apparently Sam Horn was offensive player of the day