This may sound crazy, but it seems that results like last Wednesday’s are harder to digest and outcomes like Saturday’s are easier to cling to than in the darkest days of Missouri basketball.
It’s easier than ever to look at the state of the program from a micro-perspective. Since Frank Haith stepped into Columbia in 2011, the long-term view of the program has shifted dramatically from, “finally elite,” to, “floundering in mediocrity,” to, “depths of despair.” That’s a journey across the full spectrum of college basketball relevance in a time span of just six full seasons.