Enter Mizzou Arena for a men’s basketball game, and the picture will not be pretty.
The venue was once teeming with fans who were loud in their support and proud of their team, which won 30 games and earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament just five years ago. This season, the stands are almost completely empty, the atmosphere almost nonexistent. And so the deterioration of Mizzou men’s basketball continues.
The scene at Mizzou Arena represents the fall of Mizzou men’s basketball quite well. The structure, once a powerful symbol of Mizzou Athletics, now seems lifeless, with just an empty shell remaining to remind fans what once was.