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How a Dennis Rodman shirt and Josh Gray's rise have made Mizzou one of SEC's best rebounding teams

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Is it time to flip the script on a core assumption about this year’s Missouri men’s basketball team?

Throughout Dennis Gates’ tenure at Mizzou — now about halfway through its third season — the Tigers have been consistently poor at rebounding. They’d leave second-chance points on the table and concede a frustrating number of offensive boards.

That just might be changing.

Through three games of Southeastern Conference play, MU (13-3, 2-1) is one of the league’s best rebounding teams. Depending on the stat, it’s possible to argue that Missouri is actually the SEC’s best on the boards.