This Mizzou Hoops offseason has felt longer than most.
Perhaps that’s a byproduct of the 2021-2022 season. Despite a slew of reinforcements from mid-major schools, Cuonzo Martin couldn’t do enough to save his job at Missouri and was fired in March. His final season was the definition of a slog; the team endured brutal losses to rivals like Illinois and Kansas while limping to a 5-13 conference record. Interest was lost much sooner than that, arguably when the Tigers lost to Kansas City in early November.
Dennis Gates was hired less than two weeks after Martin’s dismissal.