The Verdict: Utah State’s pace and positional flexibility pose a stiff test for Mizzou

March 19, 2010, was an otherwise non-descript Friday.

Of relevance to this discussion, it was also the last date the Mizzou Tiger Basketball program won an NCAA Tournament game. That team, led by a pair of senior guards — J.T. Tiller and Zaire Taylor — defeated a feline of a different hue, the Clemson Tigers. Now Graduate Assistant, Phil Pressey, had committed to Mizzou the previous September but had not yet donned the black and gold.

Fast forward 4,745 days, and Mizzou is still in search of an ever-elusive Round 1 win.