COLUMBIA, Mo. - Ten years ago today, Mike Anderson’s Missouri basketball team and his deep collection of fantastic guards — Denmon, Pressey, English, Dixon — played the Oregon Ducks on their home pond in Eugene and nearly gagged away a 20-point lead before hanging on in the final seconds.
A decade to the day later, Mizzou and Oregon face off again tonight in, of all places, Omaha, Nebraska, in the building where that same Mizzou core suffered one of the worst losses in team history a year later in the NCAA Tournament — a loss so bad we’ll spare you the details.