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It’s imaginable things are going to get worse earlier they get amended erstwhile it comes to nan portal.
But this offseason feels for illustration a batch of bad news for nan Missouri Tigers, moreover earlier nan charismatic opening. Clearly Mizzou is going to section a roster adjacent year, nan database of guys “Re-signing” to travel backmost adjacent twelvemonth is increasing and it’s a coagulated list: Ahmad Hardy, Jamal Roberts, Matt Zollers, Cayden Green, Nick Rodriquez, Donovan Olugbude, Marquis Gracial… each person been ‘announced’ arsenic coming backmost either by Mizzou Football’s instagram aliases by On3’s Hayes Fawcett.
The exits are extensive, and nan freshman people is being hollowed out.
Gone are Javion Hilson, Henry Fenuku, Marquise Davis, Keiton Jones, Brendon Haygood, Mark Manfred, and CJ Bass. And that’s conscionable nan freshmen class.
The Offensive Line wasn’t awesome this past year, and they’re losing a LOT of depth.
Then Jeremiah Trotter announced he was heading to nan NFL. We haven’t yet heard from Damon Wilson, but nan defense is getting hammered pinch departures arsenic well. Zion Young, Daylen Carnell, Chris McClellan, Toriano Pride, Drey Norwood, Jalen Catalon, Tristan Newson… it’s a batch to endure.
So Missouri is successful nan marketplace for starting talent connected some nan defense and nan offense, they request Wide Receivers, Offensive Lineman. astir apt astatine slightest a backup quarterback, and past half of a defense! No problem, right?
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With it being a New Year’s holiday, activity was light. The only Mizzou related arena was WBB taking connected 2nd classed Texas. I’ll fto Dylan return it from there:
Texas won this crippled acknowledgment to 2 categories: violative rebounding and turnovers. Mizzou vanished nan crippled pinch a season-high 30 turnovers, which led to 36 points for nan Longhorns. A mixed 19 of those came from Lisa Thompson and Saniah Tyler, nan 2 constituent guards connected nan roster. Abbey Schreacke was nan only Tiger to not grounds a turnover. A large portion of this came owed to nan Longhorns’ property which consistently trapped Mizzou successful nan backcourt.
“They make you play 1-on-1, they will not let you to free travel done your offense,” caput coach Kellie Harper said. “We couldn’t get unfastened to make passes, and erstwhile we were unfastened we were nether specified duress, we couldn’t make a pass. That’s portion of their crippled plan. That’s who they are.”
Mizzou was hanging pinch them for astir 2 and a half quarters, past nan Longhorns went connected an 11-0 tally to grow a 4 constituent lead to a 15 constituent lead, and they didn’t look back. The Tigers changeable nan shot truthful good they astir made up for nan 30 turnovers. But a 40% turnover complaint is difficult to overcome.
- If you missed it, decidedly check retired my (annual) piece connected What we’d for illustration to spot from Mizzou MBB successful this 2026 almanac year:
2025 was a mix. They played and competed pinch nan country’s champion teams successful nan champion convention successful NCAA hoops history. They hit nan eventual nationalist champion connected their ain level successful January. Then they faded a spot down nan stretch, losing 6 of their past 8 games, and bowing retired successful nan first information of nan tournament.
The recruiting wins were a bully alteration of gait complete nan summer, but past this commencement of nan play hasn’t gone arsenic planned. The Tigers haven’t seemed to really build connected their occurrence past season, and person struck retired connected their only Quad 1 opportunities truthful acold this season.
I wrote a batch connected that column. I’m a believer successful nan talent connected nan roster, and I deliberation nan coaching unit has not done their portion to adequately hole nan players for nan large games to date. That doesn’t mean they can’t start. But they request to commencement soon. Like tomorrow!
- For RockM.plus, True wrote astir what Mizzou should beryllium looking for successful nan transportation portal, which for illustration I mentioned supra is an extended list:
Hendricks has spent 2 seasons astatine Ohio, posting 578 receiving yards connected 51 receptions done his Bobcat career. Prior to his clip successful Ohio, he was teammates astatine St. Mary’s pinch Mizzou moving backmost Jamal Roberts, who has already been lobbying for nan Bobcat to travel backmost to his location state.
Scott, a second-year receiver retired of Jacksonville, vanished this play pinch 63 catches for 1018 yards and 4 touchdowns connected West Florida, a Division II program. Mizzou offered Scott connected Dec. 26 and he could beryllium a gem successful nan unsmooth heading into adjacent season.
The remainder of nan portion is paywalled but worthy a look if you’re a subscriber.
I’m not present to cheer you up necessarily, but I whitethorn successful nan process. Any sliver of dream is good, right? In position of tourney qualification -- insert Jim Mora playoff gif present -- theh bully news is Mizzou hasn’t tied connected immoderate anchors. Every nonaccomplishment erstwhile looking astatine things from a resume position is defensible for a tourney team. They’ve done thing affirmative to thief themselves, yes, but they still person 18 games to alteration that. After all, we talk astir really bad bubble teams are each year. The way is location strictly looking astatine resume components. However, erstwhile you glimpse astatine HOW games person materialized, and see margins of wins/defeats, I understand immoderate skepticism. Consider maine a personnel of your squad if you’re excessively skeptical to spot March dancing.
I said arsenic overmuch successful nan comments of my portion from yesterday, but if you’re a existent hoop caput and a Mizzou Hoops instrumentality and not reference everything Watkins and Matt Harris are writing, you’re doing yourself a disservice. There are a batch of voices retired location successful Mizzou media, but location is nary 1 who covers and talks astir hoops rather for illustration RMN and RM+.
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