A sold-out crowd at Mizzou Arena on Friday night went - finally! - to see the Michael Porter, Jr. and Co. show make its first rounds in Columbia vs. a rebuilding Iowa State team.
After about two minutes, the main attraction’s night was done. He obtained a hip injury in warmups and sat out the rest of the game as a precaution, icing the area while cheering on his teammates in his warmups on the bench.
And boy, did his teammates give the crowd something to cheer about.
The Tigers dominated on both ends of the floor for 40 minutes and almost made all of us forget that a certain heralded freshman wasn’t even on the floor for most of it, and made Mizzou Arena rocking for the first time in a long time.