Grill scores 22 to lift No. 14/16 Missouri over South Carolina, 101-71

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Caleb Grill scored 22 points, and Anthony Robinson II scored 14 points and matched his career high of eight assists to help No. 14 Missouri beat South Carolina 101-71 on Tuesday night.

Mark Mitchell and Tony Perkins each scored 13 points for Missouri (21-7, 10-5 Southeastern Conference) who had six players score in double figures for the second time this season.

Collin Murray-Boyles matched his season-high of 27 points, and Jamarii Thomas scored 17 for South Carolina (11-17, 1-14), who had just beaten Texas on Saturday for its first conference win of the season.

Missouri’s 101 points were the most allowed by the Gamecocks this season and marked the fourth time the Tigers scored at least 100 points this season.

Missouri has won four of its last five games, and is 18-1 at home this season.

The Gamecocks could not keep pace with Missouri offensively, as the Tigers’ dominance from 3-point range was no match for a South Carolina team that entered play shooting just 29.5% from behind the arc.

The Tigers dominated offensively shooting 63.5% from the field while converting 11 of 19 shots from 3-point range. Missouri also committed seven turnovers after coughing up the ball 18 times to Arkansas in its last contest.

Grill scored 12 of his points, including 10 straight, and Jacob Crews nailed a pair of 3-pointers to help Missouri pull away on a 16-4 run to take a 27-13 lead with 10:40 remaining in the first half.

Missouri has scored at least 80 points in five straight conference games for the first time since 1989 when it was a member of the Big 8.

KEY STATS

• Missouri shot 63.5 percent from the floor, hitting 11 3s (11-of-19, 57.9%). It’s the third-straight road game the Gamecocks have allowed double-digits 3s, their opponents shooting 49.4 percent from behind the arc over the stretch.

NOTABLES

• Sophomore Forward Collin Murray-Boyles matched his season-high with 27 points in just 29 minutes of action. It’s marks his ninth 20-point game, a new career high mark, which ranks eighth in the SEC this season.
• The SEC’s field goal percentage leader was 10-of-11 (90.9 percent) from the floor. It’s his fourth game this season (sixth career) with 10 or more makes from the floor. The last South Carolina player with four in a season was Devan Downey, who did it nine times in 2009. He was 7-for-7 at the free throw line tonight as well.

• Murray-Boyles also became the first SEC player tonight with multiple games in the same season with 10 or more makes while shooting above 90.0 percent from the floor, per Eilas’ database which dates back to the 2001-02 regular season. He was 10-for-10 earlier this season in non-conference play in the team’s win over East Carolina.
• Senior transfer Jamarii Thomas was also in double figures with 17 points for Carolina.

UP NEXT

Carolina returns home for Legends Weekend to face Arkansas (16-11, 5-9 SEC) on Saturday afternoon. Roy Philpott (pxp) and Pat Bradley (analyst) will be on the call for the 1 p.m. (ET) SEC Network broadcast.
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