COLUMBIA, Mo. — Dennis Gates doesn’t talk about last year.
You know, the 0-18 skid through regular season Southeastern Conference play that Missouri men’s basketball endured. The wrong kind of history made, the wrong kind of streak to leave lingering into the next season.
Gates doesn’t talk about last year because he doesn’t have to. He says he learned what he needed to learn. Ten scholarship players enrolled at Mizzou over the offseason, and he saw enough development from the five players who stuck around.
“I’ve not one time brought up last year to this team at all,” Gates said.