Back on the road for the second time in two weeks, the No. 20 Missouri basketball team followed one of its worst halves of the season with a second-half surge at Texas A&M but couldn’t finish the rally, falling to the Aggies 82-64 at Reed Arena.
In their lowest scoring and worst shooting game of the season, the Tigers (13-3, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) fell behind by 21 points in the first half on a horrendous shooting night but got within four of the lead in the second half before crumbling late. Against a Texas A&M team that controls the glass and lives at the free throw line, Mizzou picked a bad night to go cold from the 3-point arc. At one point the Tigers missed 16 consecutive 3s and finished the night 7 of 31 and a season-worst 35.6% from the floor overall.
In their first matchup against a ranked opponent this season, the Aggies (11-5, 3-0) won their fifth straight game behind a massive rebounding edge (42-25) and 32 trips to the foul line thanks to Mizzou’s season-high 29 fouls.
