COLUMBIA, MO. • The final buzzer sounds. Some fans head to the exits. In the top rows of section 105, the Cunningham clan stays put.
“Well, we’re going to be here for another hour or so,” Jim Cunningham says. He watches the Missouri women’s basketball team run into the locker room as a rush of people filter toward the court.
He knows what happens next because it’s happened countless times. His daughter Sophie, the Missouri women’s basketball star senior guard, will quickly meet with the media. Then, she’ll head back to greet the mass of people who are now wrapped around Norm Stewart Court.