Before she became the hometown star for the Missouri women’s basketball team, Sophie Cunningham was a seventh grader who received her first scholarship offer from … the Kansas Jayhawks.
“I think I had like three or four offers. Maybe five,” Cunningham said. “But yeah, they didn’t matter.”
Now she’s a junior guard leading Mizzou to one of its best seasons in program history. The Tigers topped traditional powerhouse Tennessee on Sunday, and they are on their way to hosting the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, something the team has never done under coach Robin Pingeton.