Mizzou to play MO State. Who you got?
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I hadn’t heard anything on players leaving. Yes that could make a big difference. Mizzou has lost at least one. I don’t think the others will go NBA so should be back. Will be an interesting game.
3 left. Hall, Dixon and Cooper all left the program, but he has signed 7. Missouri has nothing to gain and Mo State has everything to play for. That is usually not a good set up.
The Bears have an all-conference type big man in former Juco AA Gaige Prim, plus Columbia native Isiaih Mosley who had a nice freshmen year. They are bringing in a juco AA point guard in Demarcus Sharp, and another juco forward who can score. Yes lots of exits from last year, but with the way they underachieved thats probably not a bad thing.
That leaves to question where will Moseley and Black's minutes be? Especially for Black if they are bringing in AA Juco PG
He’ll get his minutes. Dana Ford is a big fan of Jamonta. But I dont think he’ll be the primary Pg as he was for the last half of the season. Not really his natural spot anyway. Mosley is a no brainer and I expect him to be the second leading scorer next year
That's my main problem with getting all hyped up about this game. Both programs are in a real middling state. MSU hasn't done much of anything since '99 and Mizzou has been in various extreme up and down periods since '99 as well. I guess it'll be neat for Mizzou to play in Springfield for the first time since 1941.
The place will be hyped. It will be better than the Illinois/Mizzou atmosphere! Springfield area is crazy about basketball in that area
Was that the year Alford was coach and they played Duke as well as anyone in the tourney?
Actually, Alford had been a semi-flop as coach until they made that Sweet-16 run in '99. People in the community did not like him and a lot of people at MSU thought he was arrogant. Anyway, they underachieved during the regular season, but still got an at-large bid, then beat Wisconsin and blew-out Tennessee in Charlotte. The Duke game was as tough of a game as the Blue Devils had until they lost the championship to UConn.
MSU's run in men's basketball ended when Bill Rowe didn't hire Kevin Stallings (Mike Brey was flying in to interview), but he picked Mark Bernsen. That killed what Charlie Spoonhour had built. We've never been the same since.
MSU's run in men's basketball ended when Bill Rowe didn't hire Kevin Stallings (Mike Brey was flying in to interview), but he picked Mark Bernsen. That killed what Charlie Spoonhour had built. We've never been the same since.
It was. That team was fun to watch. Then again, I think I could’ve had fun watching Willie play scrabble back then. That dude was entertaining.
The bad thing is the Bears actually had a better regular season the following year after Alford left, but were one of the highest rated RPI teams to ever be left out of the tournament. I still think if Alford was the coach instead of Hinson they would have got in on name recognition. Long string of mediocre and pretty good teams since then just not ever back to the NCAA tournament.
1999-00
- Bears lost a bad road game to UMKC in December - William Fontleroy was injured and didn't play, which led to the loss in my opinion. The NCAA didn't take the injury into account when debating the Bears as an at-large team (more on that later).
- MSU lost to SMU in the finals of their on-campus tourney in early December, which would've been their best non-conf. victory.
- As usual with Alford & Hinson, they lost a couple of times late to cost them a chance at a MVC regular season title
Due to those three issues, they missed out on an at-large bid with an RIP of 36, if I recall correctly. Ironically, the Bears defeated SMU in a first round NIT home game, I wish they would've won the regular season game three months before. Ole Miss blasted them in a NIT second round game. They really missed Danny Moore as an inside guy.
2000-05
The Bears had several 17-11 like teams, borderline NIT candidates. This is when Hinson should've been let-go, in my opinion.
2005-06
MSU had an RPI of 21, but was left out of the NCAA Tournament field.
Working against them...
- The MVC got four teams that season - There's ZERO chance the NCAA was going to put five MVC teams in the tourney
- The Bears had zero quality non-conf. wins
- The Bears lost their first (a quarterfinal) MVC tourney game to Northern Iowa
- Bradley was included in the NCAA field (and made a run to the Sweet 16), because the NCAA took into account the injury of Patrick O'Bryant for much of the season, which they didn't do for the Bears in '99-'00.
- MSU did make a run to the NIT quarters, but were outmatched by Louisville.
2006-07
The Bears pulled off their best ever regular season Div. I win in program history by defeating #7 Wisconsin in a November tourney, BUT they were manhandled in a home, bracket-buster contest against (I think) Davidson and lost an ESPN2 home conference game against SIU, also playing rather poorly.
So, the very very good non-conf. win was wasted by a lackluster February. The NCAA left the Bears out of the field with an RPI of about 34.
This was also the season where the Bears beat Evansville by 50, then lost to them by 7 a week later. Nothing sums up the Hinson era better than that one.
2010-11
The Bears and Cuonzo Martin won the programs only regular season MVC title, BUT they didn't have a single quality non-conf. win and their RPI wasn't all that great, so they became the first regular season MVC champ left out of the NCAA field since the late/mid-80's.
- Bears lost a bad road game to UMKC in December - William Fontleroy was injured and didn't play, which led to the loss in my opinion. The NCAA didn't take the injury into account when debating the Bears as an at-large team (more on that later).
- MSU lost to SMU in the finals of their on-campus tourney in early December, which would've been their best non-conf. victory.
- As usual with Alford & Hinson, they lost a couple of times late to cost them a chance at a MVC regular season title
Due to those three issues, they missed out on an at-large bid with an RIP of 36, if I recall correctly. Ironically, the Bears defeated SMU in a first round NIT home game, I wish they would've won the regular season game three months before. Ole Miss blasted them in a NIT second round game. They really missed Danny Moore as an inside guy.
2000-05
The Bears had several 17-11 like teams, borderline NIT candidates. This is when Hinson should've been let-go, in my opinion.
2005-06
MSU had an RPI of 21, but was left out of the NCAA Tournament field.
Working against them...
- The MVC got four teams that season - There's ZERO chance the NCAA was going to put five MVC teams in the tourney
- The Bears had zero quality non-conf. wins
- The Bears lost their first (a quarterfinal) MVC tourney game to Northern Iowa
- Bradley was included in the NCAA field (and made a run to the Sweet 16), because the NCAA took into account the injury of Patrick O'Bryant for much of the season, which they didn't do for the Bears in '99-'00.
- MSU did make a run to the NIT quarters, but were outmatched by Louisville.
2006-07
The Bears pulled off their best ever regular season Div. I win in program history by defeating #7 Wisconsin in a November tourney, BUT they were manhandled in a home, bracket-buster contest against (I think) Davidson and lost an ESPN2 home conference game against SIU, also playing rather poorly.
So, the very very good non-conf. win was wasted by a lackluster February. The NCAA left the Bears out of the field with an RPI of about 34.
This was also the season where the Bears beat Evansville by 50, then lost to them by 7 a week later. Nothing sums up the Hinson era better than that one.
2010-11
The Bears and Cuonzo Martin won the programs only regular season MVC title, BUT they didn't have a single quality non-conf. win and their RPI wasn't all that great, so they became the first regular season MVC champ left out of the NCAA field since the late/mid-80's.
Art Hains on Sports Talk here in Springfield is saying that Mizzou boosters are trying to kill it. So....
Looks like the Mizzou boosters have killed it. Coach Martin said on Sports Talk with Art Hains tonight that "as of now" the game won't be played.
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