Mizzou head basketball coach Cuonzo Martin directs his team on Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, in the second half of a game against Northern Kentucky at Mizzou Arena in Columbia, Mo. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
Christian GoodenMissouri athletics director Jim Sterk met with reporters on the second floor of Nashville’s Renaissance Hotel on Thursday to discuss the Southeastern Conference’s decision to cancel the rest of the men’s basketball tournament, ending Mizzou’s season. Little did he know at the time that 90 minutes later the NCAA would cancel the remaining winter and spring national championship events for the rest of the academic year.