With a win today at Kansas State's Bramalage Coliseum, the Missouri basketball team can wrap up a Big XII tournament bye, put a quality road win on its NCAA resume and give the team a little room to breathe.
With a loss, Mizzou will stay on the ventilator another two weeks, awaiting the prognosis from the NCAA Tournament selection committee, as fickle a group of diagnosticians as one could find.
The patient's history in the "Octagon of Doom" indicates more treatment. The Tigers are winless in Manhattan under Coach Mike Anderson; but they handled K-State easily in Columbia early in the season. Frank Martin's Wildcats were suffering a funk of their own then, fighting through an infection of defections and suspensions. Apparently the Purple Pride of the Plains has cured the blues and seems to be on the road to recovery. Nonetheless, a Wildcat win only pulls K-State even with the Tigers in Big XII play; but KSU will still trail in conference seeding if the RPI tiebreaker doesn't change.
A Mizzou loss will make Wednesday's game against Nebraska in Lincoln the most important game of the Tigers' season.
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