The Border War

It's never good to go to bed when you are depressed. The feeling usually carries over into the following day, and you have a seemingly extra long hour commute to work. Then, your day at the office seems a little slow, so things start to look up. It's a nice day outside, and you think, "Hey, maybe everything will be alright." Lunch is good (leftover taco salad), and the weekly team meeting starts off as per usual. Then, out of nowhere...BAM! Your project manager informs you that he has put in his letter of resignation.

It just goes to show, life is bad after losing a close one in Columbia. Seriously, let's look at this ballgame after .7 seconds left in the first half. Tyshawn Taylor converts a fantastic finish to put the Hawks up by 14 going into the break. A 14 point lead! Obviously, you can guess how the second half went. All we had to do was play a bad second half, that's it! Not good, decent, or mediocre. Just plain bad. A "bad" half is one that you lose by 10 points; a bad half wins the game. Instead, our entire team decides to lay one huge, far-past-its-expiration-date egg. But, it's the first Border War for a majority of our team! But, Missouri plays "40 Minutes of Hell" defense! But... Bill Self said it best:

"I can handle getting beat,” Self said. “We can learn from getting beat. We didn’t expect to run the table or anything like that. When you put yourself in position to be up 14 at halftime, 11 under 10 minutes and seven under four (minutes), as a coach you feel you need to win those games"

Looking at his quote, maybe I'm exagerating a little bit on the full half being so unbelievably pitiful. For fairness' sake, let's peg the final 8 minutes of the game as terrible: missed free throws, not looking inside, not making a bucket from 8:00 remaining until 0:29. And, most importantly, giving up 46 points!

The only silver lining, here, is that thick-headed Mizzou fans still rush the court. That exemplifies the light in which we are portrayed by fans o' the Tigers.

Oh, and Leo Lyons had this to say: "I just know this means more to them (fans) than a national championship does."

It's good to see they have the right goal in mind.