****OFFICIAL BRAGGIN' RIGHTS GAME THREAD****
 

Mizzou's basketball team is currently ranked #25 in the country, and it's the first time we've been ranked in years. However, this game is really a make or break one for us, because many fans will jump right back off the bandwagon if we don't beat the hated Illini tonight.

We haven't beaten Illinois in the Braggin' Rights game since 1999 - an astonishing 8 game losing streak. However, under CMA the last two years, we've lost by a combined 4 points.

Let's get a win tonight! If not, let's at least tackle Chief Illiniwek!!!

Can't wait.
Going to Fox n Hound with a bunch of TCU alums to watch the Poinsettia Bowl, and had to make sure to go early to catch the beginning of the Mizzou game.

I love MU football
but I'd care more about Rhonda Moss' tan line
than anything Bball

Mizzou Basketball hasn't been the same sit ole Stormin' Norman.

I happen to really like Mike Anderson though....I'm hoping he gets MU back to the days of Doug Smith/Anthony Peeler/John Brown/Al Eberhard/Willie Smith/Kim Anderson/Jim Kennedy/Nathan Buntin/Derrick Chievous/Lee Coward/Ricky Frazier/Jon Sunvold & Steve Stipanovich.

so PUMPED UP about this game. One hour to go.

The best team MU's ever had was with Quin Snyder in 2002 and they shit their pants that season and finished 4th in the Big12.

They will never get back to that level.

Illini 78 MU 70

That team was better than when they went undefeated in the Big 8 in 94?

What about when they were ranked #1 with Anthony Peeler and Doug Smith?

What about the Stipo and Sunvold days?

You need to get up to date on your Mizzou history if you think the 02 team was our best ever.

Good luck guys. Illinois pretty much sucks now that Self has been gone awhile though.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showt...ll#post5254745

So you care about basketball all of the sudden eazy?

I care about rivalry games in all sports.

BTW, are you stalking me?

Go Tigers!

Sure you do.

Stalking you?

5 MU teams better than that one.....

1. 1975-76 - Willie Smith, Kim Anderson, Jim Kennedy 26-5
2. 1981-82 - Steve Stipanovich, Jon Sunvold, Ricky Frazier 27-4
3. 1986-87 - Derrick Chievous, Lee Coward 24-10
4. 1988-89 - Doug Smith, Anthony Peeler, Gary Leonard 29-8
5. 1993-94 - Melvin Booker, Jevon Crudup, Kelly Thames 28-4

This is the time of year where I begin proving my fandom.

Is the game on tv?

A true fan would know.

I'm new at the whole basketball thing. Fine, I'll go check their site. :p



EDIT: Yay! I have ESPN2.

ESPN2

Nice spin move.

damn nice move.

should be top 10 nominee.

This is about right. Illinois has made basically every shot.

Demetri McCamey: 5-5 FGs, 3-3 3pt

**** you Demetri!

Perimeter D needs to step it up a notch. We also need to land a few of those threes, or do better about offensive rebounding.

way to leave the man under the net wide open. :doh!:

I am unable to watch the game (per usual), but it sounds like another Illinois/MU game. Some guy for their team makes everything and MU plays flat.

Illi is up 30-18 with 3:51 to go in the half.

We do know that the ball is supposed to go in the net, right? Hell we've been standing back and watching Illi do it all evening.

Mizzou looks like the worst offensive team in the whole conference tonight. Maybe Mike Anderson should have been telling his team that this game is pretty important rather than telling them that its "just another game."

When does the 40 minutes of Hell start?

You're a KU fan. You should know.

It started for MU fans right around the time Macamby began hitting everything he shot.

40-22 at the half.

Game over. IMO

There's a small chance that Illinois could magically go as cold in the 2nd as MU was during the 1st half, but there is no way that MU gets as hot as Illinois was. I agree with you.

It started for me at about 6:32 PM Central Time.

Great. I'm going to get my balls busted tomorrow by all the ****ing Illini people at work AND I DON'T EVEN GIVE A SHIT ABOUT BASKETBALL.

:cuss:

Well shit. I've seen enough.

I'm watching until the end.

Nebraska is losing at home to UMBC 41-27, 5 minutes in to the 2nd half.

University of Maryland Baltimore-County.

Good God, this team is awful.

I don't see any reason why we should keep Mike Anderson after this season. He hasn't shown any progress in 3 years.

Don't know how you can determine that off the basis of one game.

True fan

Determine what? that he hasn't made progress?

Eazy's obviously overreacting a bit, but I do understand his disappointment. This game could have been a bit of a coming out party for this team.

I'm just sayin, give him at least until the end of this season. MU still very well may be a top 4 or 5 Big XII team.

Score?

Use the internet, dumbass.

It'll be interesting to see how they do once conference play begins.

Thank God DeMarre Carroll's injury wasn't serious. It looked like it could have been.

This is not part of the internet?

Here you go Saul if anyone else wants to see the conference scores.

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/scoreboard?confId=8

Iowa State ROFL
Nebraska ROFL
Colorado ROFL

At least Missouri lost to a "decent" school...

Man, I'm feelin' the love.

WTH?

Good luck to your 'Cats this season. :toast:

Eh, I ended up getting on the phone. Looked up, and they were showing the Xavier game with the MU score up in the corner.

I've got faith in 'em. I hate Missouri and everything it stands for but Coach Mike Anderson is leaps and bounds better than the other failures hired at Nebraska, Colorado and Iowa State. You know, the ones that were supposed to be "Solid long term hires" when compared to Frank Martin, the "desperation" hire.

You have to give MU some credit for hiring Anderson. The could have hired Huggins.

Worked out well for us, so far.

Yeah, it's really worked out. THugs left after one season for Morgantown, WVA, and now KSUck has the most ridiculed coach in D-1 hoops. Gotta love and be proud of that!

Frank still has a couple years to go before he catches half the shit Quin did in his tenure.

It sure is awesome to have Bill Self. :thumb:

I still to this day wonder if the rumor is true that MU hired Snyder over Self.

Wouldn't surprise me. Everyone was tired of old school Norm. Wanted the "sexy pick"... the bright young assistant.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:...ient=firefox-a

"Kansas coach Bill Self is in the house, a haunting and taunting presence considering all that's gone wrong for Missouri's basketball program since 1999. That's when Self lost out to Quin Snyder at the wire in the first coaching search conducted - some would say flubbed - by Missouri director of athletics Mike Alden. "

Wish we could've pulled out a W but atleast we are still 9-2 bad 1st half