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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A mini-tantrum by Bobby Knight may have
pushed Indiana over the top.
|  | | Missouri's Tajudeen Soyoye, right, makes a second-half steal. Missouri was in command until Indiana took over with a late rally. |
The 15th-ranked Hoosiers, down by 16 points in the first half,
rallied to beat Missouri 73-68 on Tuesday night. The key point:
With 3:48 to go and Indiana trailing 64-59, Knight started to
diagram a play during a timeout and then slammed his clipboard to
the floor in disgust.
Indiana (5-0) scored the next five points to tie the score, and pulled away in the final minute.
"When you get to a point where you can win it, sometimes you
don't," Knight said. "I'm as pleased as I've been with a team in
a long time for being able to come back."
Knight figured Missouri would be a challenge.
"Why would I think this wouldn't be tough?" Knight said. "If
I was Missouri and someone was coming in to play at home against
someone with a national ranking we'd play our ass off."
Knight did not permit his players to talk to the media.
Reserve Kirk Haston scored all 17 of his points in the second
half for Indiana. Haston played only four minutes in the first half
and missed his only shot, but was on the floor for the final 20
minutes. He made a running hook that tied it 66-66 with 1:33 to go
and then passed to Dane Fife for the go-ahead layup with 43 seconds
left.
"We played really well for most of the game," said Keyon Dooling, who had 21 points for Missouri. "Those last three minutes really killed us."
Indiana (5-0) won despite an off game from A.J. Guyton, who had
16 points on 4-for-11 shooting and six turnovers. Guyton had been
averaging 21.3 points.
The Hoosiers' comeback was largely a matter of tightening up on
turnovers. They committed 14 in the first half and only four the
rest of the way.
"You're not going to keep a good team down for very long,"
Missouri coach Quinn Snyder said. "They're too well-schooled to
continue to make mistakes."
Snyder said that's his goal with Missouri.
"I learned how precise we have to be in order to have
success," Snyder said. "We have to pay attention to every little
thing."
Fife and Michael Lewis each had 13 points for the Hoosiers, who played at Missouri for the first time since 1969. Former Missouri coach Norm Stewart, who never faced Knight during the regular season, made his first visit back to the Hearnes Center since retiring last April.
Dooling bounced back from two mediocre games for Missouri (5-2),
hitting seven of 14 shots and making four 3-pointers. He was
3-for-22 in the previous two games.
Freshman Kareem Rush added 16 points and Clarence Gilbert had 12
for the Tigers, who shot 50 percent in the first half but only 31.4
percent the rest of the way.
Indiana, down 34-18 in the first half, tied it for the first
time on two free throws by Guyton with 2:18 left.
The Hoosiers closed the first half on a 10-3 run and came back
after halftime with another 10-3 run that cut the deficit to 40-38.
Missouri responded with 10 of the next 12 points, but couldn't hold
off Indiana's last charge.
Dooling had 12 points in the first eight minutes of the first
half before sitting down with two fouls.
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