COVID-19 has been the brakes on a Missouri season that, so far, may be the most promising of Cuonzo Martin’s tenure. It’s also created an opportunity for reflection while we patiently wait for basketball activities to resume.
To be clear, what follows isn’t a predictive metric of how the remainder of the 2020-2021 season will unfold. It’s also not a diagnostic report on what may or may not ail the Missouri Tigers at the moment. Matt Harris has done a good job of that so far, and the evidence thus far says that Missouri is soldiering toward their first NCAA Tournament bid in three years.