COLUMBIA, Mo. — Marques Warrick remembers encountering a Dennis Gates-coached basketball team.
This was some time before the guard and coach teamed up at Missouri for the upcoming season. It was back in January 2021, the heart of a pandemic-muddled basketball season.
Warrick and Northern Kentucky played at Gates’ Cleveland State in Horizon League action. Gates’ group emerged as 58-44 winners, holding Warrick to a 3-for-15 shooting performance and just seven points.
“Vivid” memories from that game still float around Warrick’s head. “They were disruptive and physical on the defensive end,” he told the Post-Dispatch. “He had them well-coached.