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These recruits might want to play together. That could be good news for Mizzou

Mario McKinney and E.J. Liddell have been friends since kindergarten. Or second grade. They can’t exactly agree.

Whenever the two teamed up on the St. Louis Majestics as boys, they formed what has since become a formidable basketball duo — one McKinney wouldn’t mind keeping together for college.

McKinney, a 6-foot-1 guard from St. Louis, told reporters at the Peach Jam on Friday that he and Liddell, two of Missouri’s biggest priorities for the class of 2019, have thought about being a package deal.

“We are still trying to weigh that out, see if we still want to do that or not,” McKinney said.