Missouri Basketball vs alabama: screening report, score prediction for the game of Major Mizzou Arena

It could very well be the game of the year in Columbia.

Wednesday evening, n ° 16/15 Missouri Basketball will welcome No. 4/4 of Alabama for a Tip-off at 8 p.m. at Mizzou Arena. The two teams probably locked the places of the NCAA tournament, and a defeat in this 1 to two -track Quad match will not harm the team’s CV of the team.

But that could certainly make Tigers a world of good.

Mizzou (19-6, 8-4 sec) enters the match in fifth place in the dry ranking after consecutive two-digit victories against Oklahoma at home and in Georgia on the road last week. With a victory over the Crimson Tide, the Tigers would be in excellent position for a double-Bye in the SEC tournament and a premium seeded in the big dance.

Alabama (21-4, 10-2) has just released one of the biggest games in recent basketball history, losing at home against Auburn in a match between teams No. 1 and 2 in the country . The only other Crimson Tide defeat at a conference this season was at home against Ole Miss. Otherwise, “Bama has been among the university basketball elite in recent months.

Before the massive match comes to Mizzou Arena, here is what you need to know about Alabama:

What are the forces of Alabama leading to the Missouri basketball match?

This Alabama team can get a crimson shade in red.

For what the crimson tide lacks 3 -point efficiency, they compensate for attempts at 3 points. The OATs team launches almost 30 shots behind the arc per match, which is in the top 2% of all the country’s teams, according to CBB Analytics. They make it 33.4%, which is right inside the upper half of the country’s teams. It’s 10 triple triples per game, and the guards like Aden Holloway and Chris Youngblood are inclined to set up.

And the tide can make you trip everywhere. Behind the dynamic guard Labaron Philon and the great man Grant Nelson, the Alabama is in the 99th centile of the country with a brand of 60.3% of the interior of the arc. They are in the 99th centile, essentially equally with Mizzou, making an average of 26.8 attempts to launch franc per match.

Find a way to prevent the tide from scoring and you are the aberrant value. The Kenpom analysis site classifies the adjusted offensive note from ALABAMA to n ° 2 of the country. Crimson Tide has overshadowed 100 points seven times this season. They have not scored less than 80 since January 14.

Sizzlin ‘hot and not easy to stop.

What are the weaknesses of Alabama?

The painful thumb on the statistical profile of Bama is something that could really play in the forces of the Missouri.

The crimson tide is confusing to force the reversals, and more or less in the middle of the road to hang on to the possession themselves.

CBB Analytics traces the Alabama with the lowest flight percentage in the league, coming from a point to be taken from less than 8% of its defensive goods. The percentage of turnover of the 11.5% tide of the tide ranks in just 3rd centile in the country.

This does not mean that a bad defense arrives in Columbia. Kenpom still places the tide at n ° 38 of the country for adjusted defensive efficiency.

But the figures suggest that Alabama is not particularly aggressive when Mizzou is in possession. And since the turnover rate of Crimson Tide ranks among the last five of the dry, coughing the ball on 14.8% of their goods, it is an area to watch on Wednesday.

Player to watch: Mark Sears

Alabama was considered a pre-season candidate for the national player of the year, and although it is not entirely at these high heights in mid-February, Sears is still the backbone of the crimson tide.

He is a volume shooter of 3, and on average 17.8 points and 4.8 assists per game. Due to the way they are multiple in attack, the tide can make space teams. Sears is the player to watch the two behind the arc and attack the edge.

Something to look: Oats sent Sears to the bench for half a full In a victory over LSU at the end of January, apparently as a challenge to his defensive effort. Whoever is responsible for the main tasks of matching Sears – Robinson, Tony Perkins or Mitchell stand out as probable candidates – may want to try to test this intensity early.

Where can Mizzou create match advantages?

Choose your plan.

Do you want to try to go aside and get into a shooting with perhaps the hottest offensive in the country? Do you want to try to slow them down and get out of the pace?

Mizzou has shown that he can gain in different ways. The deep capacity of Caleb Grill, the interior prowess of Mark Mitchell and the defense that has become instant in Anthony Robinson II have all taken up the games recently.

Where will they go?

The best option seems to be trying to accelerate the game as much as possible – a quick and aggressive defense to accentuate the disparity in turnover and effective work in transition.

Ole Miss won the turnover margin 21-7 when she won in Tuscaloosa. Auburn only gave the ball four times during his victory on Saturday.

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Score prediction: Missouri 94, Alabama 93

Why not? If Mizzou can put the crowd on the early side and find his groove during a shooting, there is no reason not to expect fireworks. This will require the best of Missouri, but we see it more and more often tigers recently.

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