January 27, 1999

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Freshman Keyon Dooling scored a career-high 19 points and Albert White added 15 as Missouri beat Kansas State 70-63 Wednesday night, handing the Wildcats their 19th loss in 20 Big 12 road games.

Dooling scored 12 points in a see-saw first half as he made just his second start of the year. Then the 6-foot-3 guard canned a 3-pointer with 1:36 left for a 65-58 lead as Missouri beat Kansas State at home for the 15th straight year.

Kansas State (14-7 overall, 3-5 Big 12) erased a 37-34 halftime deficit with an early surge in the second half and took a 40-39 lead on Manny Dies' bucket. But Missouri (14-4, 5-2) unfurled a 14-4 run with Brian Grawer hitting a key 3-pointer and took its biggest lead at 60-50 with 8:59 remaining.

At that point, the Tigers went cold. Kansas State fought back and got within four points at 62-58 on Cortez Groves' 12-footer from the lane.

But then as the shot clock ticked down to 1 second, Dooling pulled up and sank his decisive 3-pointer.

Dooling, the Big 12 player of the week last week after scoring 15 points and blocking three shots in a 71-63 victory at Kansas, brought the crowd to its feet with a spectacular shot in the first half, a reverse layup from beneath the bucket that gave the Tigers a 22-19 lead with 8:29 remaining.

Missouri, which won 78-73 at Kansas State earlier this month, notched a season sweep of the Wildcats for the first time since 1995.

Cortez Groves led Kansas State with 21 points while Dies, saddled with foul problems in the second half, had 10.