SEC Hoops: Mizzou Crushes Arkansas, Ole Miss Survives Late Alabama Rally

March 6th, 2013 08:30 AM║ Posted By: MrSEC.com ║ Permalink ║ Schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Ole Miss
Tags: Alabama, Ole Miss, Senior Night, Video Highlights

Missouri 93 – Arkansas 63. Video Highlights

1. Senior Night at Missouri features some testy exchanges between coaches Frank Haith and Mike Anderson. Laurence Bowers, recruited to Mizzou by Anderson, leads the Tigers with 24 points and 11 rebounds. Anderson: “Bowers was fantastic. I’m trying to beat him in the place I brought him to. … Something ain’t right about this.”

2. Joe Strauss: “Missouri-Arkansas isn’t Louisville-Kentucky. It isn’t blood sport. But Anderson received no quarter.”

3. Blowout loss drops Arkansas to 18-12 and 9-8 in conference play – “leaves little doubt the Razorbacks will have to win an SEC Tournament title next week to get into the NCAA Tourney field.”

Ole Miss 87 – Alabama 83. Video Highlights

4. With six three-pointers in the last two minutes, Alabama cuts into big Ole Miss lead, but it’s too little, too late.Ole Miss senior Murphy Holloway: “They were making crazy shots. Hat’s off to them, but we got the win.”

5. Kevin Scarbinsky: “That popping sound you heard late Tuesday night was Alabama’s NCAA Tournament bubble bursting in air.”

6. Rebels force 17 turnovers on Senior Night. Ole Miss shoots more than 50 percent from the floor, led by Marshall Henderson’s game-high 24 points.

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Somerset

I agree with XEN610, i am not upset that Anderson left but how he left. The team found out that Anderson was leaving when it hit the internet. Anderson dodged the media and left the team to face them. That's why I call him suitcase Mike.

Fayettechill14

Congrats to Mizzou, who got exactly what they wanted. Not only a blowout, but their coach acting like a moron (not unlike Petrino vs LSU 2011) on national television to get Arkansas fans all riled up for the rivalry. These teams should be top-5 SEC teams over the next few years, so I expect some heated matchups. The treatment we gave Kentucky in Fayetteville this year will be given plus more to Mizzou next year in Fayetteville.

Dfayad

Kind of sick how Mizzu fans forget what shape their program was in on Anderson's arrival in Columbia...he left it in much, much better shape. Yet, they want to hate. It won't be long before your program will be run into the ground, again.

bpa_kc

I dunno... As a Mizzou fan, I was really happy to watch Mike "suitcase" Anderson get his at Mizzou arena last night.

XEN610

I watched the MU-Arkansas game from home last night and do not sit down for the first half. We are not upset that Coach A left-it how it was done. The kids that played for him, especially Bowers & Pressey, deserved to have been told in a locker room meeting. Coach A did a lot for the program and nobody is faulting him for going back to Arkansas.

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