When K.J. Santos trotted to the scorer’s table five minutes into a clash against Morehead State, it was a substitution made out of necessity.
At the other end of the floor, Jeremiah Tilmon had just picked up his second foul, whistled for extending his arm after using a spin dribble to escape a hard double team near the right block. While the Tigers’ big man hunched forward on the bench and wiped sweat from his brow, MU’s future became the present.
Over his 22 months on the job, coach Cuonzo Martin made his stylistic intentions clear.