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Auburn Basketball: Tigers vs Missouri Final Score & Game Recap

By Nicholas Ian Allen

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A big time performance by big man Cinmeon Bowers powered the Auburn basketball team to an 85-79 victory over Missouri at Auburn Arena. It was the first conference win of the season for the Tigers and the sixth in a row at home. Auburn is now 9-6 overall and 1-1 against SEC opponents.

Bowers tied a career high with 20 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to secure his ninth double-double of the season. The junior forward added three steals and an assist and only turned the ball over once. He also hit 11 of 18 free throw attempts.

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With the home crowd behind them, Auburn got off to a good start. An early 13-2 run gave Auburn a 14-8 lead, and the Tigers used a hot shooting streak to push the lead to 25-19.

K.C. Ross-Miller gave Auburn a big boost early and tied his season high of 13 points in the first half. He also had four assists at that point. Ross-Miller cooled off considerably and fouled out with 2:37 left in the second half with the same 13 points, but he put together an impressive stat line that also included five assists, three rebounds, two steals and a block.

As they have been known to do this season, Auburn went cold late in the first half. The Tigers went scoreless over the final 2:48 before halftime and Missouri cut the lead to 41-40 heading into the locker room. At the half, Mizzou held a 20 to 11 rebounds edge, including a 9 to 2 edge on the offensive boards. Overall, Missouri out rebounded Auburn 40 to 31.

Things got worse before they got better in the second half.

Missouri began the second half with a quick 9-0 run, 18-3 overall between the two halves. Auburn missed ten shots in a row, including the first eight shots they took in the second half.

However, Auburn kept things close and Tahj Shamsid-Deen provided a much needed second half spark. Shamsid-Deen drove to the basket often in the second half and made three acrobatic layups to bring the Tigers back to a 67-67 tie.

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    • A free throw by Bowers gave Auburn their first lead since just after the half and Shamsid-Deen hit a shot on the next possession to give him ten points in the second half that capped a 10-0 Auburn run.

    Antoine Mason was held scoreless in the first half. The senior guard was 0-for-5 from the floor and 0-for-3 from beyond the three-point line in the first 20 minutes. He picked up the pace after halftime with seven points and finished with two rebounds, two assists and a steal.

    Fellow senior K.T. Harrell had 14 points for the Tigers, and added four assists. Malcolm Canada had ten points off the bench, including four clutch free throws in the final minute of the game.

    After shooting only nine for 18 from the free throw line Tuesday against Vanderbilt, Auburn made nine of their first 11 from the charity stripe against Missouri. Auburn finished 25 of 37 from the line against Missouri.

    The win is the first in conference play for Bruce Pearl since 2011. Auburn returns to the floor Thursday night in Gainesville against the Florida Gators.

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