This is the latest in a series of stories highlighting the top 30 Mizzou athletes Dave Matter has covered in his time writing about the Tigers since the late 1990s. The series will run every day Monday through Friday.
This might be a polarizing pick. It’s a Mizzou career that wasn’t wildly celebrated at the time but gets better with age and reflection.
Phil Pressey came to Mizzou hyped as the program’s next great superstar, a transcendent point guard who’d be the key to unleash Mike Anderson’s system on the rest of the Big 12.