In 2007, when DeMarre Carroll decided to transfer from Vanderbilt to Missouri to team up with his uncle Mike Anderson — the Tigers’ basketball coach at the time — the end result would be a trip to the Elite Eight.
The Tigers are hoping to have the same success with the latest family tree to enter the program: the Porters, made up of freshmen Michael and Jontay Porter and their father, assistant coach Michael Sr.
Despite holding his summer camps at Tolton Catholic in Columbia, Porter’s old high school, the two have never met. But Carroll said he can relate to Porter because he knows the feeling of joining a team with high expectations and a great supporting cast.