COLUMBIA, MO. • When Missouri visits Gainesville, Fla., on Saturday, the host Florida Gators will turn back the clock 25 years and celebrate the program’s first visit to the Final Four, complete with throwback uniforms from Lon Kruger’s 1994 team won 29 games before losing to Duke in the Final Four. That was
That same year MU ran the table in the Big Eight regular season, earned the No. 1 seed in the NCAA West Region but loss to Arizona in the Elite Eight, a step short of the program’s first Final Four.
Florida went on to lose to Duke in one national semifinal, while Arkansas beat Arizona in the other and then held off Duke in the championship game.