We could have gone with Norm Stewart, who impacted the culture of the state as much as any athletic figure ever has here (and, oh yeah, won eight conference titles and made two Elite Eights). We could have gone with the 1954 Baseball team that won the College World Series, an actual team title for a school that has only two of them. We could have gone with one of the oh-so-close football seasons, or Dan Devine, or Don Faurot.
Really, though, there was only one choice for Mizzou's Greatest. Ben Askren is a two-time national wrestling champion and one of only three NCAA wrestlers (along with Iowa State's Cael Sanderson and Penn State's David Taylor) to win the award more than once.