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Missouri’s Marcus Denmon made 4 of 6 3-pointers and led the Tigers with 16 points in a 77-46 victory over Iowa State.
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Local Sports Stories
Bruins learn
to succeed without star
By RUS BAER
of the Tribune’s staff
SEDALIA - The Rock Bridge boys basketball team’s game against Center last night proved to be more than just the championship game of the Smith-Cotton/State Farm Classic.
Forget-me-nots
By STEVE WALENTIK
of the Tribune’s staff
All Greg McDermott had to do was glance at the season statistics to know his Iowa State basketball team was going to have a difficult time matching up with Missouri when it visited Columbia yesterday.
Tigers
still hard to read
By JOE WALLJASPER Tribune sports editor
Ask displaced Missouri basketball fans on either coast how the team looks this year, and they’ll blister your ears. After watching the two nationally televised games on ESPN2 - dreadful losses to Illinois and Nebraska - they’ve seen a team without a go-to player in a pinch, a team that can’t shoot straight, a team that gets dragged into half-court games and can’t get out of them.
Missouri women win in a mad scramble
By DAVID BRIGGS
of the Tribune’s staff
A sure victory gave way to the most anxious seconds of the season for Missouri’s women’s basketball team last night.
PREP NOTES
Baer takes unwanted trip down memory lane
By RUS BAER
of the Tribune’s staff
The basketball season has brought me to one simple realization: I’m getting old.
This troubling thought initially came to mind in November when I received preseason coaching questionnaires from young whippersnappers I remember covering during their playing days when I first moved to Columbia in 1998.
Thanks for staying in school
By DAVE MATTER
of the Tribune’s staff
A funny thing happened when the NFL draft’s entry deadline passed Thursday night: A slew of premier underclassmen gave the pros a stiff arm and opted for another season of college football.
Hickman defense locks down Bears
By SAM MILES of the Tribune’s staff
One night after his Kewpies held their opponent to 36 points, Hickman boys basketball Coach Kenny Ash told his team it needed to go out and do better against Kansas City East.
Marable a marked man
By TIM DAVIS of the Tribune’s staff
The timing isn’t quite right, but Nick Marable has been fighting a sophomore
slump.
Missouri’s 165-pound wrestler is actually a junior, but Marable is dealing with the typical trials of a second-year starter.
TAKE 2: An alternative look at the day in
sports
By JOE WALLJASPER
I have a weakness for infomercials, dating back to my childhood when I did my part to keep K-Tel and Ronco in business. I purchased Solid Gold Hits of 1978 (not by the original artists, as I learned four to six weeks later when someone who definitely was not Donna Summer began singing the disco version of “MacArthur Park”) and Funny Bone Favorites (which came with the superior companion LP, Funky Favorites, containing Chuck Berry’s life-changing song, “My Ding-A-Ling”).
AREA ROUNDUP
Hickman girls pull upset in St. Louis
By the Tribune’s staff
Trailing by five entering the final two minutes, the Hickman girls basketball team scored the final six points to upset 10th-ranked Class 5 Nerinx Hall 50-49 yesterday in St. Louis.
Daniel struggles in all-star game
From staff and wire reports
Former Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel struggled in the East-West Shrine Game in Houston yesterday.
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