COLUMBIA, Mo. - From 2016 to 2019, Robin Pingeton guided Missouri to the Southeastern Conference women’s basketball tournament knowing the Tigers had all but secured a spot in the tournament field that truly matters, the NCAA bracket.
That’s not the case this year as the Tigers trudge to Greenville, S.C., after one of the worst regular seasons in team history. Pingeton, her team 8-21 and 5-11 in conference play, has already let her mind drift to the offseason.
This, she insists, is not the new normal for a program that’s grown accustomed to winning on her watch.