As fans clapped and cheered inside Mizzou Arena back on March 20, Cuonzo Martin stepped up to the lectern, slowly licked his lips and stoically laid out his plan.
“We have everything to be very successful,” he said then in his introductory news conference. “I think we have everything to be the last team standing one day, and that’s my goal.”
While lofty, Martin’s early moves made fans believe in said goal. Positivity swarmed the program — until Tuesday’s news.
Nov. 21, 2017, will always be remembered as the day the school announced star-studded freshman Michael Porter Jr.