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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Early-season college basketball games can be difficult to make sense of. Some, like Missouri’s season opener against Memphis, are true barometers of where a program stands. Others feel more fruitless.
But they’re all part of the 31-game regular-season slate and therefore meaningful in some capacity — if for nothing else than building an understanding of what a given team’s strengths and weaknesses are.
That process has played out for the Mizzou men through their first three games of the season: a loss to Memphis and wins over Howard and Eastern Washington.