COLUMBIA, Mo. — Logan Muckey walked into Missouri’s defensive meeting room, placed his water bottle on the faux-wood lectern at the front and looked around. Cameras lined the upper-most row with reporters dotted throughout the rest of the seats.
“There’s a lot of you in here,” he said, breezily.
For the first time in his five seasons with the Tigers, Muckey was about to take questions from reporters, as every team captain did before the Tigers begin their 2025 season Thursday against Central Arkansas. Representing his team like this, in itself, was an improbability.
As a kid, he’d once been so nervous that he threw up on the walk to his first day of preschool, then again on the first day of kindergarten.