In visiting with Lady Bears coach Kellie Harper last season, there was one way to bring a cringe to her face.
If you mentioned the fact that Tyonna Snow, Kenzie Williams and Hillary Chvatal were playing their final season in a Missouri State uniform, she appeared ready to throw you out of JQH Arena.
She seems to have made peace with that fact now.
“I think I would be very frustrated if I hadn’t prepared myself for it,” Harper said earlier this preseason. “I think we as a staff understand what we lost, and we understood … that we were going to have a big void.