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| You know, it's surprisingly hard to find a picture of a sporting mascot looking upset. |
At the moment, it looks like good news for the
Missouri Tigers and
Laurence Bowers, the all-everything power forward who has done as much as anyone could have hoped -- and probably more -- to help get the Tigers where they are right now.
Phil Pressey came down on Bowers' knee during the win over Alabama, and there was a moment of raw panic throughout the land. (Or at least the tiny fraction of the land that happens to be big MU basketball fans.) We saw the team play last season without Bowers after a knee injury sidelined him in preseason; visions of playing the rest of the way this year danced through the heads of Mizzou fans everywhere.
Fortunately, it looks, for now, as if the injury isn't serious. A sprain, nothing more. Still, considering what the Tigers are going to look like if the biggest of their daunting collection of big men misses any significant time is a very interesting question indeed.
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