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The Tigers have just three wins in their last six games, going back to the heartbreaking two-point loss to Texas A&M in overtime. The Beakers are riding a now four game win streak after suffering defeat to the Longhorns in Allen Fieldhouse.
The history behind this rivalry stems from an actual event during the Civil War in which Kansas senator James H. Lane invaded Missouri and destroyed the towns of Osceola, Butler, Clinton and Harrisonville, MO. Ohio-born Missourian and Confederate sympathizer William C. Quantrill led an attack against Lawrence following the collapse of a Kansas City jail, after which Lawrence was left in ashes. The attack became known as The Lawrence Massacre. Quantrill's Raiders initiated their attack on August 21, 1863.
The rivalry is more known on the gridiron, more so for the first ever Homecoming (1911) and also after the 1960 controversy of Beaker Bert Coan. The Jayhawks won that game, which spilled over to the 1961 meeting on the hardwood that became known as the "Basketbrawl". The MU-kU Border War is the most fierce rivalry in all of college sports, due to the common border the two states share, and the hatred that runs deep in each others blood. Many student-athletes have defected from their roots, as many Mizzou players come from Shawnee Mission, KS, and the Jayhawks get a handful of players from the Kansas City area.
The Tigers lead the rivalry on the football field, 56-54-9, but Kansas holds a commanding lead in the basketball rivalry at 169-94.