Reed Nikko deserved better.
We will remember the COVID-19 pandemic for the lives it took and the lives it endangered, for the many challenges it created for our country, for its impact big and small.
I’ll remember the bad hand it dealt Nikko, too.
Here’s how fast it happened for Mizzou basketball’s senior big man.
He remembers answering questions in Nashville about the notion of playing the SEC tournament in front of no fans.
Two weeks later, he was in the final days of a self-imposed quarantine in Minnesota.
SEC Tournament, nixed. Season, done.