Well, it happened again. The Kentucky Wildcats came up short to begin SEC play with an 89-75 loss at the Missouri Tigers. Mizzou punched the ‘Cats in the mouth from the opening tip and never looked back. The Tigers quickly built a double-figure lead and never really allowed Kentucky to put any true game pressure on the home crowd. Kentucky is now 8-4, 0-1 while Missouri improved to 12-1, 1-0. You can expect to see the Tigers ranked in the next AP Top 25 while the Wildcats are in real danger of falling out of the ranking. It is hard to win college basketball games when you get out shot from both beyond the arc and the free throw line. On Wednesday night, the Missouri Tigers shot 10-25 from three-point range and 23-28 from the free throw line. However, Kentucky was just 8-23 from deep and 15-24 from the charity stripe. Coincidently, or maybe not so much so, the 14 points the Tigers won by from three and at the line match up perfectly with their 14 point advantage on the final scoreboard. The opportunities were there for the ‘Cats but they simply couldn’t make enough shots to stay in
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