COLUMBIA, MO. • Kim Anderson’s debut season as Missouri’s head basketball coach last year turned into a guessing game of which player would be suspended next. In all, seven of 11 scholarship players were disciplined by some measure, resulting in 24 games lost to suspensions for various reasons, ranging from NCAA violations, academic issues, team rules and legal matters.
After an offseason roster overhaul, Anderson hoped the discipline problems were over. Until last week, Anderson had suspended three players for a total of three games: guard Namon Wright and forward D’Angelo Allen missed a November exhibition as punishment for rules violations from earlier in the offseason, while guard Tramaine Isabell sat out MU’s Jan.