COLUMBIA, Mo. — In the nine years that Missouri has been a member of the Southeastern Conference the Tigers have captured just two SEC team championships, both belonging to the women’s volleyball program.
The Mizzou trophy case has been so barren that when longtime women’s soccer coach Bryan Blitz announced his retirement earlier this week his two banner seasons — a Big 12 postseason tournament title (2008) and a regular-season Big 12 crown (2009) — represent two of only 12 conference championships Mizzou has won in the Big 12 and SEC over the past 25 years.
(Of course, we’re not counting the stash of Mid-American Conference championships Mizzou’s vaunted wrestling program has piled up, nine straight since Mizzou ditched the Big 12 for the SEC, which doesn’t have another wrestling school.