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ST. LOUIS If a decade of history has its way, the Missouri men's basketball team will again fall to Illinois Wednesday night in the annual Braggin' Rights game, which has gone to the Tigers' neighbors from across the Mississippi the past nine years.

The Mssouri Tigers entered Saturday's game against Arkansas-Pine Bluff without senior J.T. Tiller, a consistent starter and the man Coach Mike Anderson describes as "the face of the program." See how the Tigers overcame his absence.

COLUMBIA, Mo. a ' Predictably enough against 0-8 Arkansas-Pine Bluff, the Mizzou basketball team plowed the Golden Lions 88-70 on Saturday at Mizzou Arena in another ho-hum home game full of sound and fury seemingly signifying nothing.

Kim English had 18 points while going 3 for 5 from 3-point range, helping Missouri manhandle another home opponent in an 88-70 victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Saturday night.

Welcome to another night of puzzle pieces, of trying to fit square pegs into round holes, of converting guards into rebounders and forwards into scorers.

Missouri senior guard J.T. Tiller has been suspended for one game after an early morning arrest over an unpaid speeding ticket.

In the moments after Missouris 60-59 loss at Oral Roberts, Tigers coach Mike Anderson talked about missed free throws, missed layups, crucial turnovers and blowing an 11-point lead in the final 8 minutes.

Missouri coach Mike Anderson had to wait for 40 minutes to run off the Mizzou Arena clock and open a 50th birthday present from his basketball team.

As the saying goes, home is where the heart is. If you want to dispute the age-old adage, don't look for any help from the Missouri basketball team.

With an 11-point second-half lead against a depleted Oral Roberts team that had seven healthy scholarship players and earlier losses to Sam Houston State and Arkansas-Little Rock, the Mizzou Tigers still managed to trump their latest miserable escapades away from home with a 60-59 loss.

Michael Craion's layup with nine-tenths of a second left and interception of the ensuing inbounds pass gave Oral Roberts a 60-59 victory over Missouri on Wednesday night.

Mike Anderson was one of the hottest names in coaching last season after leading Missouri to a school-record 31 wins and the Elite Eight.

Columbia -- After back-to-back losses away from home, the Missouri Tigers were clearly glad to return to the friendly confines of Mizzou Arena.

Basketball wise guys always tell you that you do not fall in love unconditionally with college basketball teams in November and December.

For the Missouri Tigers, it was too little too late. Mizzou trailed the Vanderbilt Commodores by 14 with 5:25 to go in the game but then came to life.

In the embryonic stage of its encore campaign following last season's Elite Eight run, the Mizzou men's basketball team has seemed to be a talented, apparently promising but formless entity seeking identity and direction.

After feasting on skyhawks, broncs, and mockingbirds early in the season, the Missouri Tigers slogged through the rest of the 2009 South Padre Island Tournament as if they had just woken up from a post-Thanksgiving feast nap.A Over the semifinals and finals of the tournament, the Tigers managed to shoot only 35 percent from the field while ...

Posted November 24, 2009 at 10:53 a.m. Don Shrubshell photo Freshman guard Mike Dixon made the most of his chance to start in place of injured senior J.T. Tiller with nine points and seven assists on Sunday.

In his first game action since injuring his left foot Nov. 17, Missouri's J.T. Tiller played 31 minutes and led the Tigers with 12 points in their first true test of the season.

Two years ago, J. T. Tiller wouldnt have let something like a sprained ankle even a severely sprained ankle keep him out of an early-season basketball game.Tonight, hell probably take a second straight game off from precisely that injury.