re: Basketball continues its decline at Mizzou on Monday. Presser at 1 PM

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A coaching search that’s been unusually secretive for Missouri’s standards might have hit a low point with Friday’s rumor du jour — that Villanova’s Jay Wright had emerged as a candidate and was headed to Columbia on a flight from Philadelphia. A few reporters gathered at Columbia Regional Airport just in case, only to watch a group of middle-aged men exit the plane carrying their golf clubs — and not a basketball coach.

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