Men's Basketball

Thursday, March 11, 2010, 2 p.m.

The art of rally-killing

KANSAS CITY — A partisan Sprint Center crowd made several efforts to spur Missouri during its 75-60 loss to Nebraska in Wednesday's opening round of the Big 12 Tournament.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 8:47 p.m.

Loss has Tigers cloaked in doom and gloom

By Joe Walljasper

KANSAS CITY — Outside a locker room where Missouri basketball players were describing their 75-60 loss to Nebraska with morose quotes expressing varying degrees of the four stages of grief, Coach Mike Anderson alone seemed ready to move on to stage five: acceptance. “All sickness is not death,” he said. 19 comments

Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 4:16 p.m.

Tigers bounced from Big 12 Tournament

By Steve Walentik

KANSAS CITY — The shock was evident on the blank faces of Missouri basketball players who sat in almost total silence in the locker room Wednesday at the Sprint Center. 42 comments

Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 11:40 a.m.

Haven’t we been here before?

By Steve Walentik

KANSAS CITY — The thought only occurred to Rick Barnes Tuesday as he faced reporters in the bowels of the Sprint Center shortly before his Texas basketball team took the court for its final workout before the Big 12 Tournament.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 2 p.m.

Missouri struggles without Safford

By Steve Walentik

It’s not in Mike Anderson’s nature to make excuses. That’s why the coach won’t lower expectations for the Missouri basketball team heading into the Big 12 Tournament, which begins tomorrow at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. 6 comments

Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 2 p.m.

OSU’s Anderson is the pick as conference’s best player

By Steve Walentik

There’s no question Kansas is the Big 12’s best team after rolling up a 15-1 record and winning the conference title by a whopping four games. But the Jayhawks’ biggest strength was the multitude of weapons they could turn to each night to win games. Other players had to do more with less help to put their teams in position to make the NCAA Tournament.

Monday, March 8, 2010, 1 p.m.

English on All-Big 12 third team

By THE TRIBUNE'S STAFF

Big 12 Conference coaches recognized guards Kim English, Zaire Taylor and J.T. Tiller for their roles in helping the Missouri basketball team to a fifth-place finish in the league standings.

Sunday, March 7, 2010, 8 a.m.

Emotions aside, KU just better

By Joe Walljasper

Sometimes an underdog basketball team can gather strength from a sell-out crowd and ride the emotional wave to a glorious victory that causes fans to spill forth onto the court and sideline reporters to scream inaudible questions into the ears of star players and the residents of an entire state to remember where they were at that moment.

Sunday, March 7, 2010, 8 a.m.

Not much fun in watching

By Steve Walentik

The Missouri basketball team’s 77-56 loss to second-ranked Kansas might have hit Justin Safford harder than anyone. That’s because the 6-foot-8 junior forward, sidelined by the knee injury he suffered 10 days earlier against Colorado, was stuck watching it from the Tigers’ bench. 4 comments

Saturday, March 6, 2010, 3:09 p.m.

Jayhawks go above & beyond

By Steve Walentik

There wasn’t a bit of doubt in Zaire Taylor’s voice as he spoke from the front of the interview room at Mizzou Arena after the Missouri basketball team’s humbling 77-56 loss to Kansas. 15 comments

Saturday, March 6, 2010, 8 a.m.

Tiller leaving with fond memories

By Steve Walentik

There will come a moment, shortly before the Missouri basketball team tips off Saturday against Kansas, when J.T. Tiller will join fellow seniors Zaire Taylor and Keith Ramsey on the middle of Norm Stewart Court. 1 comment

Friday, March 5, 2010, 2 p.m.

Ignoring Aldrich will be challenge

By Steve Walentik

Pay no attention to the man in the middle. That’s what Missouri basketball players will try to do Saturday when Kansas and its menacing junior center, Cole Aldrich, visit Mizzou Arena. They don’t want to let the risk of having their shot blocked scare them from going near the rim. 2 comments

Wednesday, March 3, 2010, noon

The man who made it possible

By Steve Walentik

AMES, Iowa — Others will remember Zaire Taylor for delivering the last-second shot that gave the Missouri basketball team a 69-67 overtime victory over Iowa State Tuesday night at Hilton Coliseum. 3 comments

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 9:33 p.m.

Missouri’s Mr. Big Shot is up to his old tricks

By Steve Walentik

AMES, Iowa — As soon as the basketball skipped under the hands of Iowa State forward LaRon Dendy and out of bounds, returning possession to Missouri with the score tied and 6.1 seconds remaining in overtime last night, Zaire Taylor turned to J.T. Tiller and made a proclamation. 17 comments

Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 2 p.m.

Moore shows Tigers he’s set to contribute

By Steve Walentik

Martavious Irving and Jacob Pullen didn’t know any better than to charge into the middle of the Missouri basketball team’s defense, where Steve Moore stood quietly in wait.

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