DALLAS — The smiles have returned.

After a long, tough two weeks of heartbreaking basketball,Newcastle United shirt, Missouri coach Cindy Stein could barely speak. She said her voice was gone from yelling. But the smile on her face after Wednesday’s game resembled that of a proud parent, too choked up to find the right words to fit the moment.

A mentally exhausting two weeks, with a few national projections keeping the Tigers (21-8) out of the NCAA tournament,Football shirts, changed on Wednesday. Missouri defeated Texas Tech 81-75 in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Conference tournament at Reunion Arena.

“I don’t know how we couldn’t be in (the NCAA),” Stein said. “But at the same time, we don’t have that invite yet, so we’re trying to get the automatic.”

Stein called the victory a redemption game. Count senior LaToya Bond as one of the redeemed.

Bond’s 24 points led all scorers and she much more resembled a first team All-Big 12 player than the one who was so frustrated in losses to Kansas and Nebraska that she said she needed a few days away from the game.

Stein said she was concerned about her team’s mind-set entering the game. Two weeks is a long time for self-doubt to creep into anyone’s mind and Stein tried to combat that by keeping things simple in the past four practices.

“Because we didn’t have any energy and that was a concern of mine from that aspect,” Stein said.

Along with that energy, Bond’s swagger made its return.

She crossed over defenders, drove to the basket practically at will and took a charge on the defensive end. Despite starting slowly, Bond stymied the Red Raiders by repeatedly driving at or around their post players.

“We just had to come out there and warm up, get our offense going and just had to kick it in gear,” Bond said.

Upon exiting the floor after the game, she joined her teammates in a group hug. They left the floor together,Sunderland shirt, smiling and waving goodbye to the small contingent of Missouri fans that made the trip to Dallas, waving goodbye to the nightmares of the past two weeks and possibly waving goodbye to the mounting pressure that Missouri wasn’t an NCAA tournament team.

With the turmoil surrounding the men’s basketball team, the women’s team has arguably become the face of Missouri sports in the past few months. It’s something the team has heard for the last half of the season,Kaizer Chiefs shirt, mostly from fans coming up to congratulate players and coaches.

“I think it’s a good pressure,” Tiffany Brooks said. “I think it will motivate us, push us hard to go harder in practice and just work harder.”

One of the few times Stein didn’t smile at the postgame press conference was when the national perception of the Big 12 was brought up. Upset with the conventional thinking that the Big 12 is in a down year, Stein, who has never been one afraid to speak her mind, lauded the Big 12 while taking a shot at the idea the Big 12 was sub-par.

“We’ve got an excellent reputation,” Stein said. “Unfortunately we have got a lot of commentators on TV that are from the SEC and we’ve got to get maybe (former Oklahoma star) Stacey Dales-Schuman working a little bit more for us.”

Criticisms aside, it appears that Missouri is headed to the big dance.

“I definitely think we deserve to be in the (NCAA) tournament,” Brooks said. “I think we have to prove ourselves until Sunday, until they make the decisions. But like I said, I think we’ve worked hard enough to be in.”

Bond talked about the history Missouri has made this season. She can add another record to the list. With the win, Missouri advanced to its first Big 12 women’s tournament semifinal in school history.

Today, the Tigers will play top-seed Oklahoma, who hung on to defeat Iowa State 78-74. Seeing Iowa State play closely with one of the best teams in the nation offered little hope for Stein, who joked that the game just made the Sooners angry.

“I’m not sure that’s good or bad,” Stein said. “We haven’t really thought about Oklahoma to be honest.”

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Former Missouri basketball player Jon Sundvold, former Missouri football coach Al Onofrio and former Missouri and St. Lois Cardinals football player Mel Gray will be inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in January.

Sundvold, Onofrio and Gray are three of 15 people to be inducted. The Columbia College volleyball program will also be honored.

One of only two players in Big Eight history to play on four consecutive league championship teams, Sundvold played on Missouri teams that had a cumulative record of 100-28.

A guard from Blue Springs, he twice won all-conference, all-district and all-Big Eight Tournament honors, and was an all-American in 1983. Sundvold is one of only four players to have his jersey, No. 20, retired. He played professionally for the Seattle SuperSonics, San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat.

He was a second-team choice on the Big Eight’s all-decade team and was named the MVP of Missouri’s own all-decade team in the 1980s. Sundvold was a 1990 University of Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame inductee.

He owns Sundvold Capital Management in Columbia and often serves as a color commentator on Missouri basketball broadcasts.

In 1971, after spending 12 years as an assistant coach, Albert Joseph Onofrio was named the head football coach at Missouri, a post he held until 1977. While his record hovered at the .500 level, he was noted for having pulled upsets, mainly on the road.

He coached four All-Americans and 30 NFL players. He led Missouri to two bowl games,Inter Milan shirt, in the 1972 Fiesta Bowl, a loss to Arizona State in Tempe, and in the 1973 Sun Bowl, a win over Auburn in El Paso, Texas. A 1993 inductee to the University of Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame, Onofrio died Nov. 5, 2004.

Gray lettered in football and track from 1968-70 at Missouri, earning All-American honors three times in track and All-Big Eight honors in football in 1969, when he caught 25 passes for 705 yards and a school-record nine touchdowns.

Gray was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals, and was an all-pro receiver during a career that lasted from 1971-82. He was chosen to Missouri’s all-century team in 1990.

The Columbia College volleyball team had a record of 167-2 from 1998-2001. Columbia College participated in four straight NAIA National Volleyball championship matches, winning three. Columbia College holds the NAIA record for consecutive home court wins with 126.

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COLUMBIA The final minutes of Saturday night’s Missouri women’s basketball game was played at a frantic pace. There were full-court presses,Football shirts, turnovers, defensive stands and defensive breakdowns before Nebraska’s last-second halfcourt heave missed its mark and the Tigers escaped with a 67-66 victory.

But there might not have been a busier place at Mizzou Arena in the closing minutes than the scorers table.In the final 1:41, Missouri coach Cindy Stein made 11 substitutions. There was rarely a change of possession where the Tigers didn’t field a different lineup than they did on the one before.

Juniors Marissa Scott and and Toy Richbow spent the most time jogging from the bench to the scorers table. They were subbed in on defensive possessions while junior Jessra Johnson and redshirt freshman Bekah Mills were subbed in when the Tigers had the ball.

Stein said she made so many substitutions for a number of reasons but primarily because of Scott’s versatility,Glasgow Rangers shirt, which enabled the Tigers to put more defensive pressure on the Cornhuskers in the final possessions.

“Marissa can guard anybody on the floor whether it’s a post or a guard,” Stein said. “They’re (Scott and Richbow) very effective in the halfcourt going off on-ball screens, so obviously having her (Scott) play that position so we can switch on them was going to be critical.”

Stein said junior forward Jessra Johnson’s four fouls also played a role in her late-game decision making. She said Johnson’s ability to inbound the ball against a press, which Nebraska used for most of the game, made it crucial that she not foul out. Limiting her defensive possessions prevented that from happening.

Stein admitted changing her lineup so frequently risked ruining her team’s rhythm, and the Tigers hardly finished the game flawlessly. They committed five turnovers in the final 2:23, giving Nebraska a chance to win. But Stein said her reserves were not responsible for that.

“I thought our subs provided good energy,” Stein said.

Even if the substitutions had caused some confusion on Missouri’s side, it also served to manufacture some miscues for the Cornhuskers when they were setting up their press.

“I actually thought their substitutions bothered us a little bit,” Nebraska coach Connie Yori said. “We didn’t get matched-up obviously a few times,Fulham shirt, and they threw it over the top of us some.”

The victory improved the Tigers’ record to 10-6 and 1-2 in Big 12 play. Nebraska fell to 9-7 and 0-3.