Aim high, Tigers • The Mizzou men’s basketball team is not particularly good at basketball. The Tigers enter Saturday’s game against Mississippi State ranked 251st in the nation in point differential. I had a debate with my Post-Dispatch colleague Ben Frederickson (the chauffeur on stltoday.com’s weekly video called “2 Bens In A Car). We discussed moral victories – as in, is a loss a loss? Or, if Mizzou at least made it competitive in games against, say, Kentucky (or Texas A&M or Arkansas), that it would’ve been worth commending? I said, that at this point, Mizzou is going to lose, so at least play hard and try to set a tone for recruits, and for next season, that this team has heart and integrity and all that stuff. And that, ladies and gentleman, is the sad state of Mizzou hoops — hoping to not lose “that bad.” Oh, and don’t forget the self-imposed sanctions for violating recruiting rules. Incidentally, I’ll never understand how the coaches who actually oversee the mischief never get penalized, but nice people like coach Kim Anderson and his players are the ones who suffer. Then again, maybe avoiding the SEC Tournament is a blessing in disguise.