**** OFFICIAL MIZZOU vs Marquette NCAA Round 2 Game Thread ****
 

NO. 3 MISSOURI 29-6 VS. NO. 6 MARQUETTE 25-9 • 4:06 P.M. CBS


MIZ!!!!!!!!!!

What's up with people who aren't KcMizzou strting tournament game threads? You guys are messing with fate.

:)

That thread starter is waay too long. I'm glad I don't have to scroll past that 25 times today.

I love the hate between our big 12 rivals and all, but when they're not playing each other or a game that affects Mizzou. I actually can root for the gayhawks. spread the love, dude....

No love here CC, because of you I have to root against MU...

The KU one is better...

Just like KU is better...:D

Go gettem today tigs.

Let's go tigers!

Missouri should have an easy game today. They should be able to walk through this one.

Marquette has nothing on Mizzou. I expect a 50 point shellacking.

50?? At LEAST 100!!!11!

:)

Def. not as good as ku's 100 point shellacking

Stop it.

I am rooting for KU's success, go big 12!!1111111111

One of my bosses went to Marquette. Monday will be ugly for me if Missouri doesn't win.

good luck missouri but that stuff should be truncated in the opener! great read though

You'll have to excuse that.... this tournament stuff is new to them and they tend to get overly excited.

:Poke:

A win today gives us 30 W's. 29 W's is the most Norm got in one season. Anderson could walk away today with more single season wins than even Norm - an amazing feat considering where this team was 3 years ago when he took over and the fact that we don't have any marquis players like a lot of the top teams.



C'MON MIZZOU!!!

You son of a bitch

I am. I'd like to see MU win - it's good for the Big 12.

Good to know! im not particularly caring what happens to ku today, im all about mu right now but its good to see the big 12 winning alot.

I have ku i think in the sweet 16 in my bracket

Yes. I hate MU. But, in the bigger picture, a strong showing from the Big 12 is good for business. A strong showing from MU makes the North stronger.

So many positives come from the Big 12 teams winning.

haha thats what i thought but i def. see this as a big positive

You suck Tigger.......Highway porn.....fireworks......







Sorry, had to get it out of my system.

understandableROFL

Hopefully, James playing means that they have our full attention. I was worried that we were going to take this game for granted, like we seemed to against AtM and Nebraska.

Agreed, but isnt that guy going to be limping like a mother****er

I'll truncate it once the game starts....just wanted to give people a good preview of the game.

Kansas is up by 2 with 5:08 left in 1st half, Go Dayton

Pitt losing by 8

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/spo...A?OpenDocument

Mizzou is now an easy team to embrace
By Bryan Burwell
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Sunday, Mar. 22 2009

BOISE, IDAHO — Every year about this time, one of the greatest joys of March
Madness is the discovery of a perfectly charming basketball teams who literally
jump off your NCAA bracket sheet and practically scream, "embrace me."

They are the sort of team that confirms that everything really is just fine in
our sports world. The players are genuinely enjoyable to encounter. They are
full of wonderful stories, aren't the least bit jaded, honestly live true to
the premise of the student-athlete, and are the embodiment of every old-school
notion about a college team being anchored by savvy seniors and infused with
impetuous and eager-to-please freshmen.

So excuse me while I take another opportunity to marvel at the transformation
of the Missouri Tigers from the most dysfunctional band of trouble makers only
a bail bondsman could love to that extraordinary March Madness darling.

The 29-6 Tigers, ranked ninth in the nation and a third seed in the NCAA West
Regionals, are one game away from the Sweet 16. A victory over Marquette on
Sunday afternoon will give Mizzou a school-record 30 victories, and no doubt
produce a bandwagon full of Tiger loyalists in Arizona next week.

But with or without a victory here at Taco Bell Arena, Missouri basketball has
officially become a success story simply because the Tigers have repaired
themselves from within. While head coach Mike Anderson deserves a lions' share
of the credit for being the architect of this basketball revival, none of it
would have been possible without the players wanting to buy in.

This is the type of thing that normally only happens at mid-major schools. You
don't often see this at major college basketball programs anymore, the natural
process of a program growing from within. Freshmen turning into sophomores,
sophomores into juniors, juniors into seniors. The seniors passing down the
legacy to the freshmen; everyone blends together at one special moment to
create a season to remember.

This is what has happened to the Tigers, who are prospering because the elders
on the team are handling the responsibility of leadership in the right way.

"Last year set the stage for this year," said Anderson before the team's final
practice on Saturday. "Our seniors like Leo (Lyons), DeMarre (Carroll), Matt
(Lawrence) and Michael (Anderson) Jr. are hungry and they wanted to make sure
this was a special year. They couldn't wait to be put in a position where they
could do it. You see a guy like Leo. People say, 'Leo, a leader?' And I say,
Yeah, Leo. He's in a position now. And result is, there's camaraderie with this
team now. There's a bond that's taking place."

During the last few years, when the leadership void was glaring, the
underclassmen during those years remembered biting their tongues as they saw
how rotten leadership wrecks a season. The so-called leaders of the team were
constantly breaking team rules, putting themselves, their teammates and the
basketball program's reputation in harm's way.

"I think the reason we struggled back then was because of the (lack of)
leadership," Lyons said. "Not to blame those guys, but now we have a better
understanding of what it takes to lead. Now we have guys who have been here for
three years, who have been in this system and we know it like the back of our
hand. So it's easy for us to go out and lead and be captains."

Lyons tried to be a bit on the politically correct side when he answered the
question. But the inference was clear: what he and his current teammates
learned most about leadership from their early years in the program was exactly
how NOT to lead.

As he stood in a corridor near his locker room, Mike Anderson had to laugh when
he heard how diplomatically his players tapped danced around how poorly the
likes of Jason Horton, Stefon Hannah and the rest of the old gang had handled
their leadership roles.

"Well, I think it's true," Anderson admitted. "I saw it in the meetings. I
always said that it's hard to be a leader because sometimes you have to say
things that aren't popular. But the real problem was that (the prior team
captains) would say things to the younger guys and they weren't practicing what
they were preaching. Well some of our guys told me, 'It's hard for me to follow
a guy when I know what he's doing.'

"That's why this year has been so special because the leadership has emerged
and the ownership, too. Now these guys say, 'Oh DeMarre? Yeah, I can look up to
him. Leo, yeah, I see how he does things. Matt? I can look up to him too.'"

What they look up to are seniors who stay out of trouble and play hard. They
can look up to upperclassmen like Carroll, Lawrence and J.T. Tiller.

"What's really great is that we have guys that are willing to listen to the
guys who are older and have actually seen the bad stuff happen, and they know
we know what we're talking about," Lawrence said. "That's why it was so special
this year. We had the ability to bring the new guys in here and explain things.
We told them this is how we're going to act, this is the way we're going to
play, this is the way we're going to act in the community, this is the way
we're going to be portrayed in the media. We've had a lot of negative light
that has reflected on us on the basketball court, but now it's kind of awesome
because there's nothing like that asked anymore.

"It's just about basketball," Lawrence said. "Everyone only wants to talk about
basketball, and that's awesome."

Good read. Thanks.

Match that!



Seriously though, don't match that. Please be entertaining. Tell that to Marquette, too.

I'll be very happy if Mizzou wins in a boring game like KU.:D

No doubt.

If we shoot 20% and win by one, I'll be happy.

I think you'll win. You will be executed next weekend though.

A KU fan who hates MU's gut. But I am an MU fan for this game and every game during this tournament until they face us [if we make it].


Good luck.

go the official MU

The term I used after Kansas beat SIU in the SS a couple of years ago was "comfortably numb"... happiness sunk in after a while, of course, but it was rough. It would have been the same today had Kansas (er, Dayton) kept it close.

Looks like I'm getting MSU on the tube and Mizzou on the Slingbox. :thumb:

****, I got's bubble-guts.

LET'S GO TIGERS!!!

Just like the guy said, I wonder what kind of emotion Marquette will have coming out.... Mizzou might have to weather the storm for a little while, and wear them out... not that it's anything new for them.

Gawd, those Marquette unis are hideous.

Looks like the refs are just there to watch the game. Calling this one very, very loose so far, just letting them play. Thats fine as long as they are consistent for both sides and dont tighten up.

Cool for them, they have the best seats in the house.

Agreed......if you're going to let them play then let them play.

Does Marquette have a strong bench?

No

No according to the commentators. They said they were "not deep".

Yeah, they all sit on it and everything.

Quick hands. Nice.

Lawrence can't buy a bucket these last couple games.

Marquette does not go very deep at all. The announcers have been talking about it.

the whole mizzou team cant buy a bucket so far :cuss:

Not a good start.....more stupid quick 3's.......GET THE ****ING BALL IN THE PAINT!

Why do we have to start every ****ing game shooting ice cold. It's ****ing goddam infuriating!

Awful transition D by Lawrence there.

I'm finally to the point that I really don't get concerned with what Mizzou does in the first half. No matter how bad they do in the first or how much they are down, they always seem to pull it out in the second.

Time for Matt Lawrence to put on the jump suit and not take it back off.
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why didnt KcMizzou start this thread?

I agree, to a point. Don't wanna dig a big hole.

That almond commercial is annoying as ****.

Wasn't quick enough.

Marquette is doing a really good job of running with us right now. Question is, how much running will the be able to do with another 20 minutes of game time gone?

Kim English should be starting in place of Lawrence.

Lawrence better wake the **** up

I was shocked you didnt you start this you start almost all of them

They don't even go 5 deep...

Top scorers:
19.5ppg
18
16
11 (James)
5.6
3
3
2

Wow... I almost put Marquette in the SS...

Sure would be nice if Kimmie English can stay hot.

I'd LIKE to see us come in and dominate from the beginning, but I'm able to stay relaxed now.

wow thats not very deep lol

Eh, just had a few in a row during the Big 12 tourney.

One more Mizzou loss and he will be.

:)

Just stay within 10pts at halftime & the game is ours.

Two good possessions there out of the TO.

Isn't this the court where the Ty Edney "miracle" happened?

English is on FIRE!!!!!!!

I like the English kid. Surprised he doesn't get more playing time(Lawrence's minutes).

NICE!

English!!!

English is on fire!

STFU, Skip!