COLUMBIA, Mo. — When Robin Pingeton took a job as Missouri's women's basketball coach back in 2010, she thought she would wind up coaching in the Big Ten. That's where the realignment winds were rumored to be blowing at the time, only for the Tigers to land in the Southeastern Conference two years later.
"I'm thinking, I'm a Midwest girl, this isn't what I signed up for," said Pingeton, who hails from Atkins, Iowa, after Sunday's women's basketball game.
That contest, which was her 467th at MU, was her last at home. Pingeton's contract expires at the end of April, and she has agreed to step down at the end of Missouri's SEC Tournament run.