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Mizzou Links: Drake Houdashelt, Kevin Puryear, and close-game baseball magic

Drake Houdashelt wins Mizzou's sixth individual wrestling championship, Mizzou signee Kevin Puryear and Blue Springs South take the state title at Mizzou Arena, Baseball takes a series from No. 6 South Carolina, and Softball comes up just short at No. 14 Tennessee.

By Bill Connelly@SBN_BillC Mar 23, 2015, 5:16am CDT

What's On

The champ speaks.

#TigerStyle finishes fourth

Houdashelt
MUTIGERS.COM: Drake Houdashelt Crowned Program's Sixth National Champion
The Trib: Houdashelt realizes dream, wins 149-pound national title; Tigers place fourth
Post-Dispatch: Houdashelt gives Mizzou a champion
The Missourian: Missouri Houdashelt's dream is reality as a national champion

Tough weekend
MUTIGERS.COM: Waters Takes Third, Cox Takes Fifth at NCAA Championships Session #5
Post-Dispatch: Mizzou's Waters rallies to place third at NCAA wrestling tournament
The Trib: Duke coaching staff offers more fuel to Cox's fire
The Trib: A victory on the mat and in the interview room
The Missourian: Reactions to Missouri wrestling's NCAA tournament performance
The Trib (Joe Walljasper): Destiny suffers a takedown

For someone who never loses, Cox took his defeat and the team’s lousy day with good sportsmanship and good spirits. He shook the hands of the Ohio State coaches, hugged his family members and spoke philosophically with reporters.

"Not winning a national championship is not going to make me a failure," Cox said. "Not having fun and loving what I do will make me a failure. I want to love what I do and have fun doing it. And I am. And I did."

Not winning a national championship doesn’t make this season a failure for Missouri, either. The Tigers will have five All-Americans, which ties a program record, and have a chance to equal the all-time best team finish of third in 2007.

But with a national championship a realistic goal, Missouri sure picked a bad day to have a bad day.

Fightin' Pingetons move to WNIT 3rd round

And the Unholy Alliance takes another hit.

MUTIGERS.COM: Eye's Hot Shooting Leads Tigers over Wildcats
Post-Dispatch: Tigers beat K-State, advance in WNIT

Here's the WNIT bracket if you're interested (PDF). Mizzou will play the winner of Michigan-Toledo. The winner of that will face the winner of Eastern Michigan-Southern Miss for a semifinal berth.