by Bill Pollock | Mar 24, 2017 | Sports Features
Cuonzo Martin may have found the linchpin to helping turn around the Mizzou men’s basketball program with the addition of Michael Porter Sr. to his coaching staff. The former Mizzou women’s basketball assistant is back in Columbia after spending the last...
by Bill Pollock | Mar 23, 2017 | Sports Features
Michael Porter Jr. was honored as the Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year, and plans to reopen his college recruitment. If Porter Jr. ultimately winds up at Mizzou, he certainly wasn’t tipping his hand. Porter Jr. won the national honor after...
by Bill Pollock | Mar 23, 2017 | Sports Features
Northwest Missouri men’s basketball advanced to the national semifinal with a 79-70 win over St. Thomas Aquinas in the Elite Eight. The Bearcats shot .500 from the field and .460 from beyond the arc to earn a slot among the final four teams. For the Bearcats Justin...
by Bill Pollock | Mar 20, 2017 | Sports Features
Cuonzo Martin hopes this is his last coaching job. Finally, a basketball coach who looks at the University of Missouri as a destination job. Martin, who grew up in East St. Louis, considers himself a Midwest guy and when the job opening became available he and his...
by Bill Pollock | Mar 15, 2017 | News, Sports Features
Cuonzo Martin resigned today as the men’s basketball coach at Cal and accepted an offer to become Mizzou’s next men’s basketball coach. Martin returns to the state of Missouri, where Martin spent three years at Missouri State before jobs at...