SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH • The first two games of the Cuonzo Martin era looked easy for Missouri. The Tigers wiped Iowa State and Wagner off Norm Stewart Court and never trailed in either game.
As Mizzou learned long before Martin took over the program, life isn’t so easy away from home.
As the final seconds ticked off the clock at Utah’s Huntsman Center on Thursday, the Runnin’ Utes student section pointed at the nearby Mizzou bench and reminded them of that very fact, chanting, “Thirty-six! Thirty-six!”
No, that’s not the age of Utah junior forward David Collette, who spent two years on a Mormon mission before he started pulverizing younger defenders in the post.