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Mizzou's Martin prepares for familiar foe

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COLUMBIA, MO. • Under normal circumstances the Missouri basketball team would not be playing Green Bay during the regular season. No, the Tigers aren’t intimated by the Phoenix’s RPI ranking in the 300s. But first-year Mizzou coach Cuonzo Martin made it clear Saturday’s game was on the schedule before he accepted the job.

Otherwise, he’d rather not play a team coached by a good friend and former teammate. Martin and Green Bay’s Linc Darner played three seasons together at Purdue in the 1990s. They remain close as two of the many branches off the coaching tree of Gene Keady, their coach and mentor at Purdue.