LEXINGTON, KY. • Despite flashing an overhauled lineup promoted as all-stars by pre-season pundits, despite a promising start to the season that led it to be ranked as high as No. 7 in The Associated Press poll, Mizzou basketball spent the season teetering between seemingly vast potential and exasperating inconsistency. On Thursday at Rupp Arena in its NCAA Tournament opener against eighth-seeded Colorado State, No. 9 seed Mizzou put to rest the question of what would ultimately define it all in a straitjacketing at the hands of Colorado State. The Tigers, who simply never had “it,” were stiff-armed 84-72 to tumble in their first NCAA game for the third straight season and finish 23-11....
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