COLUMBIA, MO. • Jordan Barnett couldn’t bear to look up, and I couldn’t bear to look at him.
The sullen senior just gazed, his face glazed by anguish.
But I was genuinely curious — what had he learned about his team Saturday?
What are the lessons of heartbreak?
“One of the biggest things is — this is a group that’s never going to stop fighting, no matter what’s going on,” the Mizzou forward from St. Louis said, his heavy head now perched up a half-hour after his 28-point performance in a 77-75 loss.