When Frank Haith took over the Mizzou men’s basketball program in 2012, he took a program strength of the 21st century and amplified it. He utilized small ball, three-point shooting and high efficiency shots to craft that season’s Missouri Tigers into KenPom’s first-ranked offense.
Since that year, Tiger offenses have been less prolific, and that’s putting it generously. Over the past eight seasons, Mizzou has averaged out to the 125th ranked offense in the country, or just about where they were in the second year of Cuonzo Martin’s tenure. That’s a pretty dreadful place for a program to be, as it requires one of the nation’s very best defenses to compensate.