Athens, Ga. – The Missouri males’s basketball crew used a dominant second-half efficiency to run previous host Georgia on Saturday afternoon, 85-63. The Tigers enhance to 21-8 with the win and 9-7 in SEC motion, whereas the Bulldogs drop to 16-13 and 6-10 versus league foes.

After trailing by some extent on the intermission, the Tigers outscored Georgia, 45-22, within the second 20 minutes of motion. Mizzou used an early 23-4 run to start out the body to maneuver in entrance by double digits and by no means let up en path to the 22-point victory. The Tigers shot 63.0 p.c after the intermission, together with 7-of-12 from 3-point vary, whereas holding Georgia to simply 6-of-19 from the sector with 10 turnovers.

Graduate pupil D’Moi Hodge led the Tigers with 18 factors, matching a season excessive with six 3-pointers on 11 makes an attempt. Classmate Nick Honor additionally matched his season excessive with 17 factors – making 5-of-7 from 3-point vary – to go together with 4 assists.

Senior Noah Carter (Dubuque, Iowa) and graduate DeAndree Gholston additionally scored in double figures with 12 and 10 factors, respectively, whereas senior Kobe Brown led Mizzou with 9 boards.

A good first half noticed each groups commerce runs en path to the one-point sport on the break. The Tigers answered a 7-0 Georgia run with a 9-1 spurt of their very own to sq. the sport at 27. The Bulldogs then added a late 8-0 stretch to drag in entrance by seven just for Hodge and Carter to every nail a 3-pointer within the last 75 seconds to trim the Georgia result in one, 41-40, on the break.

After a good opening half, nevertheless, it was all Mizzou within the second body. After Georgia scored the primary two factors, Mizzou answered with a 15-1 run to drag in entrance by double digits, 55-44. The Tigers then rapidly answered an additional 8-0 spurt and 6-0 run as Mizzou allowed Georgia to make only one area aim within the first eleven-plus minutes en path to grabbing a 20-point lead, 69-49.

The Bulldogs had been by no means nearer than 17 the remainder of the sport because the 22-point lead is the fifth-largest for Mizzou in a street SEC sport in its historical past.

Mizzou completed the sport by capturing 57.9 p.c from the sector, with a 14-of-28 clip from 3-point vary. The Tigers, in the meantime, held the Bulldogs to simply 41.3 p.c capturing with a 10-of-29 efficiency from past the arc.

The Tigers additionally outscored Georgia, 32-11, in factors off turnovers – their largest margin ever in an SEC sport – with a 32-18 distinction in factors within the paint.

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Mizzou appears to proceed to achieve momentum because the common season wraps up, enjoying its last street sport of the season with a contest at LSU. First tip is about for 8 p.m. on SEC Community.