SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Dennis Gates and the Missouri basketball team are sticking around California.
The Tigers came here in pursuit of their first NCAA Tournament victory since 2010 and they accomplished that mission Thursday with a 76-65 victory over Utah State at Golden 1 Center, securing the program’s first March Madness win in 4,745 days.
Kobe Brown (19 points) and D’Moi Hodge (23) took turns shooting the seventh-seeded Tigers to victory in the second half, clinching a Saturday matchup with the winner of Thursday’s Arizona-Princeton game. Game time will be announced once Thursday’s games are complete.