MissouriFan

Rather see,
- Big 12 forced to add 2 to 4 teams and get a conference championship
- Every conference play 9 games
- Expand the playoff to 8 (5 conference champions and 3 at large teams)

Hard to believe we are starting our 11th season at Mizzou Arena. It's been a pretty good home for our hoops team, we are 155-24 or .866 at home since the arena opened and that includes one of the worst stretches in Mizzou basketball with the last two years of quin snyder and the first two years of Mike Anderson. Take out those first four years and we are 102-7 or .936.

The AD did a great job when they built the Arena. Not just the seating area but the other areas and things they included as well.

Mizzou Arena is home to a private Athletic Performance Center, designed specifically to train basketball athletes. This area has strength training and cardio equipment, designed specifically by the strength staff to maximize student-athletes' abilities on and off the court.

Across the hall, the Mizzou Athletic Training room comes complete with aqua therapy and hydro pools, as well as treatment tables and offices for the Mizzou Sports Medicine Team.

Nutritional needs can also be met at Mizzou Arena. While teams have the ability to cater in meals before/following games and practices, both locker rooms have nutrition stations to meet the needs of our student-athletes.

A full-length practice gym, which is open to Tiger student-athletes 24 hours a day, seven days a week.






With the first few rows pushed back. They do this for practice or in this case painting the court.


Concourse behind the student section.


The Practice court - available to the team 24/7.


The current locker room - scheduled to be completely redesigned and updated this year or next.


Kids visiting another part of the current locker room


The new video board being installed. Big upgrade.

Back in August of 08 I took some photos of the stadium from the top of a parking garage with a cheap digital camera. So I went back up there Sunday and took some new ones with my phone. Some day I'm going to actually take my good camera with me.

Here are the then vs. now photos. You can see how far our stadium has already come in the last few years.

2008


Sunday


2008


Sunday



Here are some other photos from on top of the garage.

Here are some pictures of Faurot from a poster on Powermizzou.





























Still a work in progress but should be nice when it's all finished.

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It takes 6 years to fully rotate through all the other division opponents and 12 years if you factor in both home/away games. Should have gone to 9 games. Would have cut both of those numbers in half.

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I have agree with this^

Hopefully they can change their minds in a few years and go to a 9 game schedule.

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Billy Kennedy will bring A&M to the tournament this year...

Oh wait, I'm not one of those guys.

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I'm still surprised at how quickly A&M fell. Turgeon and Gillispie had you guys rolling going to 6 straight NCAA tournaments. Is this a make or break year for Kennedy? I know it's only his third year but he inherited a program in pretty good shape and his first two seasons weren't even close to tournament teams.

From the link in the op:

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Missouri

Frank Haith will work with an almost entirely different core of players for the third straight season at Missouri but should still be able to make the Field of 68 for a third time in three years. The reason is because of the return of Jabari Brown, Earnest Ross and Tony Criswell, the enrollment of a heralded recruiting class highlighted by four-star prospects Johnathan Williams III and Wes Clark, and the addition of Jordan Clarkson -- a transfer from Tulsa who can really play. Clarkson averaged 16.5 points two years ago as a sophomore at Tulsa. He might be able to match that number this season even against stiffer competition, and if he does the Tigers will finish in the top third of the SEC … provided they get adequate point guard play in the absence of Phil Pressey.

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If we make the tournament again (and I'm expecting us to) it would be our 6th time in 6 years not 3rd in 3. Hopefully the improved SEC can get 6 or 7 teams in this year. With a 14 team league I'd like to see us get to a point where we get that many in every year.

Surprised Gottleib has us 4th in his rankings. He usually hates Mizzou. Not sure who Borzello is but for whatever reason he doesn't seem to expect much from us this year.

I'm expecting Mizzou to make the tournament again for the 6th year in a row. Depending on how some of the new guys work out and without a PG that thinks he's a SG we might be even better.

We lose: Pressey, Oriakhi, Bowers, Bell, Webster-Chan, and Bull.

WC and Bull transfered but aren't big loses, Pressey was a double edge sword for Mizzou. Great play-making ability but in close games he tried to be the hero and he would forget he had teammates that were better at scoring than him. He might not be missed as much as some think. Replacing Bowers and Oriakhi will be a little bit more interesting but we have plenty of options.

We add:
Jordan Clarkson - Combo guard that transfered from Tulsa and sat out last year.

Wes Clark - 4 Star PG (72nd by rivals)

Shane Rector - 3 Star PG (NR)

Jonathan Williams III - 4 Star PF (42nd by rivals)

Torren Jones - 3 Star PF (123rd by rivals)

Keanau Post - 4 Star C Juco


Those new guys plus Jabari Brown, Earnest Ross, Tony Criswell, Ryan Rosburg, and a healthy Stefan Jankovic should give us more than enough talent to be a tournament team again.

Mizzou's Non-con Schedule:

Southeast Louisiana
Southern Illinois
Hawaii (In K.C.)
Gardner-Webb
IUPUI
Northwestern (In Vegas)
Nevada (In Vegas)
West Virginia
UCLA
Western Michigan
Illinois (in St. Louis)
@NC State
Long Beach St.

Our non-conference schedule has easier games first which should help the new guys find their roles and gel with the more experienced players, some chances for good wins against other power conference teams, and Mizzou did a better job this year of avoiding too many of the likely 275+ rpi anchors.

We should be 12-1 or 13-0 entering conference play with a good or at least decent RPI and SOS.

TD TIGERS!

Without the interceptions this game could be 28-0. Still 14-0 is a solid start.