Mizzou Links, 2-2-10

Mizzou Basketball Links

• MUtigers.com: Tigers Host Aggies on Wednesday

  Texas A&M has won five consecutive against Missouri including two straight in Columbia ... Missouri leads the overall series 11-7, but hasn’t won since a 74-68 triumph on March 11, 2004, in Dallas, Texas, in the Big 12 Tournament ... Missouri is 5-2 vs. the Aggies all-time in Columbia.

• The Trib (Steve Walentik): Anderson looking ahead to Aggies
• The Missourian: Missouri basketball fan has standout shout

Big 12 Links

• Texas 72, Oklahoma State 60
  ESPN.com: Hamilton's career-high 27 points help Texas hold on
  Dallas Morning News (Chuck Carlton): Yes, that really was Jordan Hamilton lighting it up
  
• Crimson & Cream Machine: Oklahoma Baseball Home And Away - Good Sooners and Bad Sooners
• Topeka Capital-Journal: Bounce-back time for Cats
• The Dagger: Report: NCAA tournament expansion is a 'done deal'
  Fox Sports: NCAA tournament expansion far from done

I just cannot say enough about how bad an idea a 96-team NCAA tournament is.  If they do pursue it, I'll probably throw together a "What If they'd done this in the past?" series, but ... I certainly won't enjoy it much.  We complain about 6-6 football teams being rewarded for mediocrity ... well just wait until a 15-17 Big East team makes the tournament ... which will almost certainly happen unless they put in a "nobody under .500" rule ... in which case a 17-15 ACC team would take their place.

Signing Day Tomorrow!!

• The Trib: New crop of DBs for Tigers carries 'orgasmic'?! label

  "If the Tigers signed a taller defensive back who plays like [E.J.] Gaines, they’ve signed a pro prospect," in-state recruiting analyst Danny Heitert said. "Over the past two seasons Gaines has put together an orgasmic highlight package."
  
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  "Everyone was afraid to throw at him," Fort Osage Coach Ryan Schartz told The Examiner newspaper. "If they did, he made them pay."

  Here’s proof: In a Class 5 sectional victory last season, Park Hill’s quarterback targeted the receiver Gaines was covering three times. Gaines intercepted two of those passes and knocked down another.

  For the season, Gaines made 89 tackles and picked off five passes.

• Post-Dispatch: Decision day arrives for college football recruits
  Post-Dispatch (Tiger Tracker): State's top 3 stick with Mizzou
• PowerMizzou: Recruiting review: 2010 linebackers

Other Mizzou Links

• Mizzou Football
  The Trib (Dave Matter): A throng of Big 12 players headed to Indy
• Mizzou Baseball
  MUtigers.com: FSN to Air Two Mizzou Baseball Games
  

Other

Finally...KU can have Don Johnson, NU can have Larry the Cable Guy. We'll take ... Sergio (meant to post this yesterday, but the links post was just too damn long).