Mizzou went scoreless for nearly six minutes and had stretches where they were playing Suggs/Santos/Nikko together and they're down six on the road against the No. 1 team in the country. Can't complain about that.
Realistically, Tennessee likely took this one pretty lightly, Barnes will get to them at halftime and they'll come out of the locker room and put this one out of reach. But the goal is simply to hang around as long as you can. If you're in striking distance at the under eight timeout, maybe they get tight and who knows?