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Saturday was arguably the best day of college basketball so far this season, as a pair of Top Five sqauds squared off, the top-ranked team went down, and a buzzer-beater ended a lengthy home winning streak just to name a few of the notable happenings. And as usual, that led to plenty of shakeups in Andy Bottoms’ Top 25.
After yet another week where nearly half of the Top 25 suffered at least one loss, it was another challenging exercise for Andy Bottoms to put together his latest power rankings. The middle of the list has proven to be a complete mess, but since road wins have been so tough to come by, there are some teams that actually stayed put or even moved up despite losing.
After another exciting week of college hoops, Andy Bottoms takes a look at which teams are on the rise and which ones are struggling to get out of the gate.
With so many great games this week in college football it was hard to pick a game of the week, so instead the focus is on a game that has upset written all over it. So here is why the Missouri Tigers will upset the Oklahoma State Cowboys.
Tonight’s college football marquee matchup has the Missouri Tigers headed to the desert in a showdown with Arizona State Sun Devils. This game has upset written all over it as the Arizona State Sun Devils as 7.5 point favorites in this matchup.
While some observers are prepping for a conference alignment apocalypse, the Big XII’s situation isn’t nearly as dire as the conventional wisdom suggests, and it’s quite possible that the conference will survive. Here’s why.
Yesterday at Grantland, Chris Sullentrop explained that he is a Kansas fan despite attending Missouri. This approach to rooting affiliations is contrary to everything Josh Tinley knows, understands, and believes about college sports fandom.
Purdue fans, all together now: *GULP*. I’m not laughing off the Matt Painter to Missouri rumors anymore, and neither should Purdue fans. In fact, it’s time to get very, very worried if you don the old gold and black.
Rich Brown provides some guidance for your week 1 college football betting picks with four locks. He picks against the point spread for Boise State-Oregon, Alabama-Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State-Georgia, and Missouri-Illinois.
Preview: Rich thinks it could be a rough weekend for Nick Saban, but Ron Zook and the Fighting Illinois should ski to a week 1 win over Missouri.
UConn and head coach Jim Calhoun are dealing with pretty serious allegations of recruiting impropriety, and now they have to deal with a seriously good Missouri team in the West Regional Final. Can the Huskies stop the rolling Tigers and advance to the Final Four?
The Missouri Tigers have accepted an invite to play in the Alamo bowl against Northwestern on Dec. 29th. Coming into the season, Mizzou was a preseason NC favorite while Northwestern was just hoping to get to a bowl game.
Ramblings from the sports world in St. Louis: Keith Tkachuck scored his 1,000th point, the Rams still stink and the team needs to draft a QB, the Billikens drop two on the road, and the Missouri Tigers will need to find a new offensive coordinator.
