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Missouri Basketball completes its first regular season of play in the Southeastern Conference on Saturday as the Tigers face one of the country’s hottest teams, the Tennessee Volunteers, on Saturday .

Missouri will play its first game in Thompson-Boling on Saturday, but the Tigers have faced Tennessee in Knoxville three times since the series began in 1961 .

Missouri is 2-1 in Knoxville winning 86-61 in 1961 and again in 1972 (67-57) .

The last meeting in the series was a 67-54 Volunteer win in Knoxville in 1985.

Missouri is playing some of its best basketball down the stretch and has won four of its last five games, including its most recent road decision at South Carolina (90-68) on Feb. 28

Missouri has been outstanding from the floor during those five games averaging 83.6 points on 53.3 percent shooting .

Over the last three games the Tigers are averaging 90.7 points and shooting 61.4 percent from the floor in wins against South Carolina, LSU and Arkansas.

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