COLUMBIA, Mo. — For the first time in 15 years and second time this century, Missouri is hiring a women’s basketball coach.
No Mizzou athletics director since Mike Alden in the school’s pre-Southeastern Conference days has hired a new helm of the women’s team, which now puts current AD Laird Veatch in a position to make his first coaching hire of note since his arrival at MU about 10 months ago.
Veatch will be hiring a replacement for Robin Pingeton, whose long tenure as Missouri’s women’s hoops coach will come to an end upon the conclusion of this season, as has been expected for roughly a year.