The Missouri Tigers have had a miserable 2016. Not only has their football team disappointed, but their basketball team is already sinking to new lows. Have the Tigers hit rock bottom?
With a lackluster 2015 season in football and yet another poor 2015-2016 in basketball under second year coach Kim Anderson, Missouri Tigers fans were ready for a better 2016.
Instead – Those fans have been treated to an even worse showing from their school.
The Tigers football team finished 4-8, good for seventh in the SEC East Division. One of those eight losses included an embarrassing home defeat to Middle Tennessee, a team that the Tigers scheduled as a non-conference game.
Not only did MU lose that game, they were beaten soundly by Middle Tennessee to the tune of 35-21 on Homecoming weekend. One would think it couldn’t get much worse than that, but they would be wrong.
Fans probably can’t wait for 2016 to be over with and are already probably looking ahead to what 2017-2018 basketball season has in store for them.
With the lousy football season (finally) nearing completion, Missouri fans watched with excitement as their basketball team, 14-point underdogs to a ranked Xavier squad, actually competed for the duration of the game.
Of course, the Tigers would go on to lose in typical Mizzou fashion, but they competed until the end, and that was something their basketball team had failed to do for much of Kim Anderson’s tenure so far.
In the exhibition game to open the season, the Tigers barely defeated Central Missouri, a Division 2 school, and where Anderson had last coached before he took the job in Columbia. That’s what made the Xavier game so exciting! They were finally showing grit!
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Fast forward to this past Monday evening.
The Missouri Tigers basketball team was hosting North Carolina Central in Columbia for a non-conference showdown.
Now, as mentioned above with Middle Tennessee, this was a non-conference game. These are typically games that a bigger school schedules against a weaker school so that they can beat up on a little guy, but at the same time pay the little guy for being a good sport.
Well, North Carolina Central came home big time winners in this one. Not only did they stun the Tigers at home, but they got some money to show for it too.
Not to mention, there were about 20 people in the stands for this game… so maybe no one saw it happen?
This was an all-around embarrassing performance for the Missouri Tigers. They didn’t just lose to North Carolina Central, they lost by TEN POINTS to a team in the MEAC. You know who else plays in the MEAC? Norfolk State. Too soon? Sorry.
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For Missouri fans, this is just another cherry on top of a disappointing cake. Fans probably can’t wait for 2016 to be over with and are already probably looking ahead to what 2017-2018 basketball season has in store for them.
As my co-writer Joel Wagler stated earlier this week, the Missouri Tigers are becoming irrelevant in the SEC, and with the year they’ve had, it’s no wonder why.
At least they can’t sink any lower… Right?