Good morning, friends. Barring some last-minute COVID craziness, we’ve got a basketball game to watch tonight. At 7 p.m., your No. 18 University of Kentucky Wildcats host the Missouri Tigers in the first SEC game of the season. Mizzou will be without head coach Cuonzo Martin, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday. Tigers assistant Cornell Mann will coach the team tonight. As of now, all players are available to play.
Missouri is 6-6 this season. The Tigers have losses to Kansas City, Florida State, Wichita State, Liberty, then-No. 8 Kansas, and most recently, Illinois. According to the KenPom rankings, their best wins are over SMU (No.