As I write this my beloved Mizzou Tigers are struggling to beat Lipscomb University on the Tigers home floor in Columbia. The fact of the matter is this is not a very good Missouri team. In fact to be honest its a terrible basketball team.
To give you a little background Kim Anderson took over the Tigers basketball program this past spring after winning the NCAA Division 1-A Title at Central Missouri State. I am a fan of Kim Anderson. I watched him play at Mizzou and I watched the Tigers while he was an assistant to former head coach Norm Stewart. Bottom line is Anderson knows the game, he knows how to coach and he knows how to recruit.
The problem is the person who had the program prior to Anderson is an opportunistic selfish man who left town as fast as he could to go to a smaller school at Tulsa. His name is Frank Haith and he left the cupboard bare for Anderson. Really, there is very little talent in Columbia and the Tigers are going to struggle in a mediocre SEC conference this season.
Give Anderson time and the Tigers will be back and competing against the powers in the SEC. But for the rest of this basketball season and next year the Tigers will struggle against average teams and be overwhelmed by good teams.
As a Missouri Tiger fan I will continue to support them through the bad times and then into the good times. Good Luck to Kim Anderson and his staff while they turn around this program.
For the record the game just ended and Missouri took advantage of poor shooting by Lipscomb to win the game 72-60.
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