COLUMBIA, Mo. — He’s plowing through books. He’s letting his beard grow. He’s rehabbing his surgically repaired shoulder.
The offseason came sooner than Missouri basketball coach Cuonzo Martin expected, but he’s finding ways to make it through a world that suddenly froze with the spread of coronavirus.
“This profession has been great to me,” Martin said in a phone interview from his home on the south side of Columbia, “but the one thing it’s never presented is down time.”
Now he’s got more time than ever. The Southeastern Conference has suspended all team activities through April 15 and will likely extend that suspension through the end of May, Mizzou athletics director Jim Sterk said Thursday.