KANSAS CITY — A partisan Sprint Center crowd made several efforts to spur Missouri during its 75-60 loss to Nebraska in Wednesday's opening round of the Big 12 Tournament.

Missouri entered the Big 12 tournament having thrown only 11 of its previous 59 three-point shots into baskets from Manhattan, Kan., to Columbia to Ames, Iowa. The Tigers had little better luck at the Sprint Center. The running total of inaccuracy is now 18 of 80 in their last four games.

KANSAS CITY — Outside a locker room where Missouri basketball players were describing their 75-60 loss to Nebraska with morose quotes expressing varying degrees of the four stages of grief, Coach Mike Anderson alone seemed ready to move on to stage five: acceptance. “All sickness is not death,” he said.

Tigers never got closer than eight points away after falling behind 26-9 early.

In his postgame news conference, Missouri head coach Mike Anderson said he thought the Tigers were prepared for Nebraska. "Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong," Anderson said after the Huskers upset the Tigers 75-60.

KANSAS CITY -- Making fast-paced Missouri play Nebraska's brand of basketball was all it took to create a major upset in the Big 12 tournament. The 12th-seeded Huskers, who had lost twice already to the fifth-seeded Tigers, played perhaps their ...

The Kansas City Star's Mike DeArmond and Blair Kerkhoff dissect Missouri's 15-point loss to Nebraska in first-round action in the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday at the Sprint Center.

KANSAS CITY — The Missouri basketball team became the second No. 5 seed in history to be bounced from the first round of the Big 12 Tournament, losing to Nebraska 75-60 on Wednesday afternoon at the Sprint Center.

Laurence Bowers had 11 points for Missouri, the Tigers are the 2009 defending Big 12 tournament champion.

Missouri's run in the Big 12 tournament is over after Nebraska shocked the Tigers 75-60 on Wednesday at the Sprint Center.

Never during a Missouri football practice will the Devine Pavilion be compared to MU’s Ellis Library, but as the Tigers gathered for their first spring workout Tuesday, an occasional hush fell over the field. One familiar voice was conspicuously muted.

This team hopes for a rebound like that year's squad, which was also coming off an 8-5 record and went on to finish with 12-2 mark.

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J.T. Tiller was kicking himself after Missouri teammate Laurence Bowers went to a doctor to have his left wrist taped after practice Monday. “I meant to tell him before he got X-rays, but I didn’t tell him in time,” said Tiller, who played through a similar injury. A year ago, he refused to let doctors examine his wrist during Missouri’s run to the Big 12 tournament title and the NCAA Elite Eight.

The Mizzou Football squad got its 2010 spring camp opened up Tuesday afternoon inside the Dan Devine Pavilion. With rainy conditions outside, Coach Gary Pinkel put his team through the paces of a workout which lasted close to 2 1/2 hours. Due to NCAA rules, the first two workouts in spring ball are without pads, so the scrimmaging Tuesday was limited.

Tiger senior combined-event standout Nick Adcock (Kansas City, Mo.) has been honored as the US Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Midwest Regional Field Athlete of the Year, as announced Tuesday (March 9). Adcock is the second-straight Tiger to take home this award as former Tiger All-American Chris Rohr was the recipient of the award in 2009. The award recognizes the top male and female track and field athletes from the nine different regions across the nation, along with assistant and head coaches.

Mike Dixon, a former Lee's Summit West standout, sat down with Mike DeArmond after practicing at the Sprint Center Tuesday afternoon with his Missouri teammates.

It’s not in Mike Anderson’s nature to make excuses. That’s why the coach won’t lower expectations for the Missouri basketball team heading into the Big 12 Tournament, which begins tomorrow at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.

Missouri sophomore guard Kim English added to his growing list of awards on Tuesday, as he was named to the United States Basketball Writers Association All-District VI team. English is the third Tiger named to the team over the past two seasons, joining DeMarre Carroll and Leo Lyons who were named All-District in 2009.

Two major personnel questions hover over coach Gary Pinkel's 10th Tigers squad.

Others step up in Safford's absence.