Senior Jordan Barnett's absence in Friday's NCAA Tournament first-round game, the result of an arrest last Saturday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, provides yet another setback to an already short-handed Missouri men's basketball team.
Coach Cuonzo Martin said Barnett could play in the Tigers' potential second-round matchup, likely against No. 1 seed Xavier (28-5), if Missouri wins its Friday night contest against ninth-seeded Florida State (20-11) in Nashville, Tennessee.
It's an uncomfortable position for the Tigers (20-12), but it's not unprecedented.
In 1994, the men's basketball team came down with a case of what one Missourian headline writer deemed "poor judgment.