Missouri’s last basketball game was an 86-74 loss in the second round of the SEC Tournament. It capped an 8-24 slog of a season and got Kim Anderson fired after three years and 27 wins.
Missouri’s next basketball game will tip with the Tigers receiving at least some sort of top-25 level hype. Don’t believe me? Here’s ESPN.com Myron Medcalf ranking Mizzou 25th in his way-too-early top 25 for 2017-18.
Just four years ago, Missouri mattered. In 2013, the Tigers completed their fifth consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament. And then things fell apart amid scandal in Frank Haith's final season in 2013-2014 and turbulence during the Kim Anderson era that followed.