Mizzou women’s basketball falls to No. 2 Texas 89-71

Mizzou women’s hoops came retired of nan gates connected fire, taking a double-digit lead connected nan No. 2 undefeated Longhorns successful nan first 3 minutes. But nan Tigers could not lucifer Texas for nan afloat 40 minutes, losing their SEC opener 89-71.

Texas won this crippled acknowledgment to 2 categories: violative rebounding and turnovers. Mizzou vanished nan crippled pinch a season-high 30 turnovers, which led to 36 points for nan Longhorns. A mixed 19 of those came from Lisa Thompson and Saniah Tyler, nan 2 constituent guards connected nan roster. Abbey Schreacke was nan only Tiger to not grounds a turnover. A large portion of this came owed to nan Longhorns’ property which consistently trapped Mizzou successful nan backcourt.

“They make you play 1-on-1, they will not let you to free travel done your offense,” caput coach Kellie Harper said. “We couldn’t get unfastened to make passes, and erstwhile we were unfastened we were nether specified duress, we couldn’t make a pass. That’s portion of their crippled plan. That’s who they are.”

While Texas only won nan rebound conflict by four, they dominated connected nan violative solid 21-7. They managed to move these 21 violative rebounds into 24 second-chance points. This came from nan elemental tallness advantage, arsenic nan Longhorns had 2 players successful nan rotation listed astatine 6-foot-4 aliases taller; Mizzou’s tallest subordinate is Jordana Reisma astatine only 6-foot-3.

“There’s not a crippled near connected our schedule that we’re going to person much violative boards and past our opponents,” Harper said. “We take we springiness up immoderate opportunities connected nan violative boards to get ourselves backmost defensively and springiness ourselves a chance to guard. So we springiness and return there.”

Mizzou kept it adjacent pinch immoderate businesslike shooting, finishing pinch splits of 54/63/81. Grace Slaughter led nan squad successful scoring pinch 20 points while shooting 6-13 connected section goals, 3-4 connected threes and 5-6 connected free throws. Schreacke and Chloe Sotell were nan different Tigers successful double-digits pinch 15 and 11 points respectively. These 3 players each made 3 triples each, making nan immense mostly of nan team’s 12.

“They helped a batch disconnected of our drives, we were capable to get immoderate drives to nan paint, we had that prepped and ready,” Schreacke said. “We recovered nan shooters, we were shooting astatine specified a precocious clip.”

Texas defender Ashton Judd made her return to Mizzou Arena, wherever she spent 3 years arsenic a Tigers. The Missouri autochthonal was a cardinal contributor disconnected nan chair pinch 12 points and 5 rebounds.

Here’s really nan full crippled played out:

Mizzou started nan crippled reddish basking pinch a 17-5 tally to drawback nan Longhorns by surprise. The Tigers forced turnovers and collapsed nan property to find easy changeable opportunities early. Combine those easy opportunities pinch bully shooting and nan squad started 6-6 from nan filed. Texas bounced backmost pinch a 15-7 tally to extremity nan quarter, but nan Tigers still led by 4 done 10 minutes. Grace Slaughter helped support nan Longhorns astatine bay, starring some teams pinch 8 points successful nan quarter. As a squad nan Tigers changeable 9-13 connected section goals and 5-6 connected threes.

Texas seemed to find their groove successful nan 2nd quarter, highlighted by an 11-2 tally to return their first lead of nan crippled astatine 37-33. This was a operation of Texas cleaning up connected nan violative solid and nan Longhorn defense forcing nan Tigers into mistakes. Mizzou turned nan shot complete 9 times successful nan 2nd 4th and a full of 15 times successful nan first half. The Tigers managed to support nan crippled adjacent astatine nan half, only trailing 41-38. Slaughter worked her measurement up to 15 points while Thompson provided cardinal secondary scoring pinch 7 connected a cleanable 3-3 from nan field. As a squad six different Tigers scored successful nan half.

The Longhorns yet pushed distant successful nan 3rd quarter, starring 68-56 done 3 quarters. It happened successful an instant, arsenic an 11-0 Texas tally successful only 2 minutes and 11 seconds gave them its biggest lead up to that constituent astatine 15. Schreacke did her champion to support nan Tigers successful this one, scoring 8 points connected two-made threes successful nan 4th to bring her up to 11 points successful nan game.

The 4th fourth was comparatively quiet, arsenic Texas kept Mizzou astatine bay to unafraid nan win. The closest nan Tigers sewage was 10 points, earlier nan Longhorns pulled distant for nan 18-point victory.

Mizzou (12-4, 0-1 SEC) looks to bounce backmost against yet different reliable force arsenic they recreation to look No. 11 Kentucky (14-1, 1-0) astatine 11 a.m. connected Sunday successful Lexington. The crippled will beryllium disposable to watch connected nan regular SEC Network channel.