Get old, stay old.
At high-major basketball programs who lack a blue-blood pedigree, four words succinctly sum up an accepted approach to roster building. At Missouri, it’s also the overriding offseason theme for a roster returning nine veterans, including three — Jeremiah Tilmon, Xavier Pinson and Mitchell Smith — who solicited feedback on their professional stock. Once the trio announced they were sticking around, scribes in Columbia, Kansas City and St. Louis pecked out pieces built around the idea that a seasoned core might pull the Tigers up the SEC standings.