The glove of a race, and the tests that Mizzou continues to pass, crosses Rocky Top.
The Basketball Route N ° 16/15 of Missouri continues Wednesday with a match against Tennessee n ° 4/4 in Knoxville, Tennessee. This is the first mizzou match at the UT since Deandre Gholston beat the buzzer to darken flights in February 2023.
Mizzou (17-4, 6-2 sec) is currently in third place in the SEC ranking after having recorded consecutive victories against Ole Miss top-25 opponents and the Mississippi State, starting a race against four consecutive teams With consecutive teams with consecutive teams with two consecutive victories. The Tigers beat 27 points on Saturday, And climbed five places in the two main national polls.
Le Tennessee (18-4, 5-4) returned to the right track on Saturday with a victory over Florida at Thompson-Bailing Arena. The flights had lost three of their last four games before that, abandoning the competitions against Vanderbilt, Auburn and Kentucky.
The two teams are currently in the running for a double bye in the SEC tournament in March. The first four heads will get two nights at the start of the tournament, and the winner of the match on Wednesday evening will hold an equality break in what is presented to be a tight race at the end of the regular season.
Here is what you need to know about Tennessee before Wednesday’s match:
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What are the forces of Tennessee leading to the Missouri basketball visit?
Shock, horror … UT Rick Barnes coach has an elite defense.
According to CBB Analytics, Tennessee is the best team in the country to limit the effective percentage of opponents’ field goals. It is a metric useful to analyze, as it means that flights are productive to stop the 3 teams.
Flights are much more than that, however, also have a defensive note which is by far the best in the country. The Barnes team currently limits opposing teams to around 85.5 points for 100 possessions when adjusted for opponents, according to Kenpom’s defensive rating metric. The competitor closest to flights is Houston at 87.4 points for 100 possessions. The next closest to the dry is Florida at 93.3 points.
It is a whole gap between the UT and the rest, and the results support the analysis of computers. Florida only scored 44 points on Saturday in Knoxville. Auburn scored 53 and won on his home land on January 25. Vanderbilt is the only team to put more than 75 on UT this season, and only five teams have overshadowed 70 points in 22 attempts this season.
It will be an interesting confrontation. During the last seven games, according to Bart Torvik, Mizzou has the adjusted offense n ° 1 in the country. This type of production would not take place on Wednesday.
What are the weaknesses of Tennessee?
Flights are not the most effective shooting team in the country.
CBB Analytics classifies the Barnes team below the average national scale from 3 points with its bar of 33.2%. The flights take the attempts of 2 points of 2 points per game in the dry and drop them at the fourth lowest rate. They are good for converting free throws, making more than three -quarters of their attempts, but in the 40th centile nationwide to arrive at the line by pulling 18.5 free throws per match.
Tennessee is below four from the dry for the two points of painting and fasting points. Its percentage of effective field goals is the third worst of the league. Its offensive efficiency rating adjusted to Kenpom is 11th among the SEC teams.
Player to watch: Chaz Lanier
Lanier is one of the main reasons why the Tennessee offensive is not classified as weak among its peers in the League.
He is the only 3 -point shooter in the main rotation of the seven flight players who converts more than a third of his triples, and he overturned 42.2% of his 187 looks this season. Lanier, a 6 -foot 5 -inch goalkeeper and the Northern Florida transfer, has an average of 17.9 points per game and is a threat in almost all levels.
It is also worth monitoring the status of the leader Zakai Zeigler, who will probably present himself to the availability reports of the UT this week, but seems to be likely to return. He had an MRI on Friday evening for a right knee injury that has shown no structural damage, And the Knoxville News Sentinel reported that Zeigler said he would be ready to adapt to MU’s visit. He did not play in an eruption victory on Florida on Saturday.
The flights passed without Zeigler against the Gators. If it comes back, the flights recover a player who collected an average of 12.3 points and 7.4 assists per game this season.
Where can Mizzou create a match advantage?
The obvious answer here is the Grill Caleb in shape. Tennessee is excellent to defend the 3 balls. The grill is enormous to mark without separation.
Mizzou has made good defenses in Florida and in the state of Mississippi clearly by obtaining a grill and the support casting from the arc, and all path to victory in Tennessee is likely to rely on the same thing.
If tigers can balance this with a healthy on -board attack, there are reasons to believe that they can leave Rocky Top with a victory. Tennessee is lower than average in the dry to allow offensive rebounds, so it could be a day for Mizzu to test its courage in depth.
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Score prediction: Missouri 74, Tennessee 73
It is one of these unstoppable and immovable objects of force objects, but … it is difficult to bet against the horse that keeps winning. Mizzou, all of a sudden, works at a level that compares to just any team in the country. Will this continue in Tennessee? Last month said it could well.
This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Screening report, score prediction for Missouri basketball in Tennessee
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