Biggest Embarassment: Men’s Basketball

The year was 1967. Thousands of Vietnam War protesters marched in the nation’s capital, the Green Bay Packers had just defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, in the first ever Super Bowl, and gas prices in the U.S. hovered around 30 cents per gallon. And in the heart of the Midwest, Bob Vanatta’s Missouri Tigers finished the year 3-22, the most losses in program history to date.

Flash forward 48 years. Kim Anderson’s 2015 squad broke that record.

This past season, the Tigers lost 23 games — the most in a season in the program’s 109-year history.

As young, inexperienced and raw as this team was coming into the season, it still fell far below expectations. The Tigers returned four players from…