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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Unlike Oklahoma State's last three games, point guard Byron Eaton didn't do everything right Tuesday at Missouri.

It didn't end up mattering because Eaton did the most important thing of the night just fine: He hit the game-winning shot, putting OSU up 75-73 with 1.7 seconds remaining.

With the score tied 73-73, OSU got the ball with 32 seconds remaining. Eaton dribbled down the clock to about six seconds, drove into the lane, pulled up, pump-faked and shot an off-balance 12-footer that rattled around and went in.

"When he pump-faked I didn't think he was gonna get it off but he got the shot up,” senior Marcus Dove said. "He's been playing huge for us lately and as long as he keeps playing like that we'll keep winning games.”

The win is OSU's fourth-straight and second consecutive win on the road. The win keeps OSU (15-12, 6-7) mathematically alive for fourth place in the conference and knocks Missouri (15-12, 5-8) out of contention for fourth in the conference, which is extremely muddled in the middle.

OSU coach Sean Sutton said he was worried about where his team would be emotionally after Saturday's dramatic win over Kansas. It was a reasonable concern as OSU came out slow and, "real out of it,” Sutton said.

The Cowboys weren't as aggressive offensively, due in large part to Eaton failing to drive the ball like he had in recent games, and they positively struggled to contain Missouri's Leo Lyons, who finished with 27 points. Missouri's full-court pressure got to OSU at times.

But OSU hit a season-record 14 3-pointers, and the barrage of 3s kept them in the game.

"I thought we were sloppy and not very good the first half but we made some shots to keep ourselves in it,” Sutton said. "In the second half I thought we hit timely 3s.”

A couple of timely shots helped OSU chisel away at the Tigers' eight-point second-half lead. Terrel Harris, who started for the first time in nearly a month but played just 17 minutes because of foul trouble, came in and hit a 3-pointer to cut Missouri's lead to two and a jumper to tie the score with 5 minutes to play.

But perhaps the most timely shot of the night – Eaton's aside – was a Dove 3-pointer with just over two minutes to play that gave OSU a two-point lead. It was déjà vu, as Dove hit a go-ahead 3-pointer using the same play in the Kansas game.

"Like I told (Dove), ‘You put us back in it and I'll win it,'” Eaton said.