11:40 PM ET, Thu March 11, 2010

MU women lose in coach's final game

St. Louis Post-Dispatch — KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Brittainey Raven scored 11 points and No. 15 Texas held off Missouri 64-59 in the first round of the Big 12 women's tournament Thursday.   Fifth-seeded Texas (23-7) trailed 29-28 at the half and couldn't put away the 12th-seede...

4 hours ago

Missouri women fall short against Texas in Stein's final game

Kansas City Star — Texas women's coach Gail Goestenkors' worst fears were nearly realized.

4 hours ago

Oklahoma State tops the Sooners

St. Louis Post-Dispatch — Keiton Page scored 19 of his 24 points in a dominating first half, and Oklahoma State withstood a brief rally in the season's third Bedlam game to beat Oklahoma 81-67 on Wednesday night in the opening round of the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City....

18 hours ago

MU falls to last-seeded Nebraska

St. Louis Post-Dispatch — Nebraska 75, Missouri 60 • Big 12's bottom seed pounds No. 5 Mizzou.

18 hours ago

Missouri women hope to pull another upset

Kansas City Star — Missouri forward Amanda Hanneman pointed to the spot on the floor at Municipal Auditorium where she hit the three-pointer that sent a Big 12 women’s tournament first-round game into overtime in 2008. Then, after Wednesday’s practice, the Tigers returned to the same locker room they occupied on the day they became the first 12 seed to beat a No. 5 when Mizzou upset Oklahoma 70-64.

21 hours ago

MU notebook: Tigers still believe they'll get NCAA bid

Kansas City Star — <strong><span class="subhead">First half</span></strong> &bull;<strong>Key play:</strong> Missouri trailed by 10 points and had played strong defense for 34 seconds when Nebraska&rsquo;s Lance Jeter beat the shot clock with 1 second to spare for a three-pointer that put Nebraska up 39-26 with 51 seconds left in the half.

21 hours ago

12th-seed Nebraska stuns Missouri

Kansas City Star — Missouri entered the Big 12 tournament having thrown only 11 of its previous 59 three-point shots into baskets from Manhattan, Kan., to Columbia to Ames, Iowa. The Tigers had little better luck at the Sprint Center. The running total of inaccuracy is now 18 of 80 in their last four games.

21 hours ago

Mizzou falls to Nebraska

St. Louis Post-Dispatch — Tigers never got closer than eight points away after falling behind 26-9 early.

March 10, 2010

Mike DeArmond and Blair Kerkhoff analyze MU's loss

Kansas City Star — The Kansas City Star's Mike DeArmond and Blair Kerkhoff dissect Missouri's 15-point loss to Nebraska in first-round action in the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday at the Sprint Center.

March 10, 2010

Coach Mike Anderson talks about Missouri's loss

Kansas City Star — In his postgame news conference, Missouri head coach Mike Anderson said he thought the Tigers were prepared for Nebraska. "Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong," Anderson said after the Huskers upset the Tigers 75-60.

March 10, 2010
  • Texas Tech videos show ex-coach Mike Leach's post-game rants Dallas Morning News
  • Big 12 women's basketball tournament: Oklahoma State 76, Kansas 69 Dallas Morning News
  • Aggies missed PG Harris, but Sloan comes through Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News The absence of sophomore point guard Dash Harris clearly affected No. 23 Texas A&M; in its 70-64 victory over Nebraska. Without Harris, sidelined because of a right wrist injury, the Aggies' offense seemed to lack motion. But, as has been the case all season, senior Donald Sloan stepped up his game down the stretch. He scored 23 points to lead the team. The Aggies seemingly countered every Nebraska run with a 3-point shot. A&M; finished shooting 42 percent from behind the arc. Freshman Khris Middleton scored 17 points, including three 3-pointers, and was 6-for-6 from the line. Now, the Aggies...
  • Texas Tech videos show ex-coach Mike Leach post-game rants Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News In a report on OrangeBloods.com, post-game videos taken by Texas Tech film crews during the 2009 season show former Red Raiders football coach Mike Leach directing players on how to pray and also threatening the "living situation" of some players because, "Last time I checked, we're paying the (expletive) bills around here." Here is a link to video following a game against Baylor and against Kansas. Please note that the videos contain language that some may find extremely offensive. OrangeBloods.com obtained the videos from Texas Tech through the Texas Open Records Act. Here is a quote from...
  • K-State women advance with victory over Tech Kansas City Star The Kansas State women came out firing three-point shots and rode an early hot streak to a 59-51 victory over Texas Tech on Thursday morning in the first round of the Big 12 women's basketball tournament at Municipal Auditorium.
  • KU wakes up, beats Tech for win No. 2,000 Kansas City Star A quick glimpse into the life of a Kansas Jayhawk, 112 years and 2,000 victories into the program&rsquo;s narrative: It is halftime of a Big 12 tournament quarterfinal against Texas Tech, a team you beat by 26 points two months ago, and you are winning by just two. Your coach, a tall man in a tan blazer named Bill Self, enters the spacious locker room at the Sprint Center and lets you have it. He is upset. He is loud. He is tired of you playing tired.