To open the NCAA Tournament, the Mizzou Tigers faced the No. 11 Drake Bulldogs in the Round of 64.
All season long, Caleb Grill had been the go-to guy offensively for the Tigers. As the season came to a close with a loss to Drake, Grill once again led the team in scoring.
Grill was honored as the SEC Sixth Man of the Year, serving as the Tigers' second-highest leading scorer off the bench with 13.7 points per game.
Despite shooting an impressive 39.6% from beyond the arc throughout the season, Grill's performance was often streaky.
Excluding December, when only one game was played, Grill's monthly 3-point field goal percentage showed a consistent downward trend. Starting in November, Grill shot 55.3% from beyond the arc. In January, that number dropped to 45.5%, followed by 37.9% in February.
Grill closed out the month of March shooting a putrid 26% from three, as the Tigers ended their season by losing five of their final six games.
In the loss to Drake, Grill led the Tigers in scoring. However, he was wildly inefficient, shooting just 1-of-7 from beyond the arc.
From both a positive and negative standpoint, Grill's inconsistency has played a major role in both wins and losses. In marquee victories over Florida and Alabama, Grill's shooting was crucial in securing the Tigers' success.
Given this, Grill’s poor performances have cost the Tigers a few games this year, and it happened again in the season-ending loss to Drake.
Despite Grill’s struggles in this game, it was undoubtedly a poor showing from the entire team, as the Tigers shot just 33% from the field and 25% from three. The shooting performance as a whole was nothing short of awful.
With the Tigers falling to Drake, suffering a 67-57 loss, their season ended on a very low note as they really stumbled down the stretch.
At one point, the Tigers were 17-4, but their season ended at 22-12 with the loss to Drake, as the 2024-25 campaign came to a close.