After Cuonzo Martin took charge of the Missouri basketball program, a former Tigers assistant coach visited him in his office.
Brad Loos had shifted into a new role with the Tiger Scholarship Fund, and when he met with Martin, the two men talked about their histories with cancer.
Loos’ father, Dave, once the basketball coach at Austin Peay, retired to fight the disease, and his daughter Rhyan has been battling pediatric cancer since late 2015. Martin is a survivor of advanced non-Hodgkin lymphoma that abruptly ended his playing career, and he still carries the weight of that experience with him more than 20 years later.