Jabari Brown has been one of the best players in the country who no one is talking about. The junior shooting guard from Missouri has been on a tear during conference play and continued his stellar scoring streak in a road win over Arkansas on Tuesday.

Brown finished with 24 points on 6-of-11 shooting from the floor and a 4-of-5 display from three-point range as the Tigers topped Arkansas 75-71.

“We stayed together,” Brown said in an interview with Ben Arnet of Mizzou Network after the game. “They had some runs ­– they’re a good team – but we were able to fight through that and get a win.”

Over the past five games, Brown is averaging 24.4 points, 4.4 rebounds, and 2.2 assists per game while shooting 61 percent (37-61) from the floor and 70 percent (20-29) from behind the arc. He leads the SEC in scoring at 19.8 points per game and is making a case for Player of the Year honors within the conference.

The former five-star recruit out of Oakland, California originally signed with Oregon, but transferred after two games with the Ducks. Brown has thrived in Missouri where he has shown his stroke from deep along with the addition of a dribble-drive game where he has used his athleticism to attack the basket.

“I went back and looked at all my shot attempts from last year and just tried to tell myself that this year I knew I was going to take more shots, so I wanted to take quality shots and not try to shoot a lot more just because the team was going to need me to,” Brown told Steve Walentik of the Columbia Daily Tribune earlier this week. “So I feel doing that has helped me shoot a good percentage.”

As a result, his shooting percentages have climbed alongside his scoring average. He’s shooting 50 percent from the floor and 48 percent from three this season compared to last year’s 40 percent and 37 percent averages respectively.

“It feels real good playing like I’m playing right now,” Brown added in Walentik’s story. “I just want to keep it up and try to help turn it into some wins.”

Brown has turned his performances into back-to-back conference victories, but Missouri will have two monumental match-ups this week at home versus Kentucky on Saturday and on the road against Florida on Tuesday. The Tigers are currently 16-4 overall this season and 4-3 in conference play. ESPN’s bracketologist Joe Lunardi had Missouri listed under the “First Four Out” column in his most recent update, so a win in either contest could be a huge resume builder.

With the way Brown and his squad are playing lately, Missouri could be primed for an upset this week. The Tigers will certainly be a bubble team to follow from here on out.