Mizzou Basketball 2012

[Saul Good]

The last thread reached nearly 7,000 posts in 2 and a half months creating issues for the server, so it's time for a new one.

MIZ

[Beerthirty]

Bowers and Pressey didnt play. Negus Webster Chan didnt play also.

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by eazyb81

The SEC basketball schedule was released today. Here is Mizzou's schedule:

Bama - ESPN
at Ole Miss
UGA
at UF - ESPN
SC - ESPNU
Vandy - ESPNU
at LSU
Auburn
at A&M - ESPN/2
Ole Miss - CBS Sports
at MSU
at Arky - ESPN/2
UF - ESPN
at UK - ESPN
at SC - ESPN/2
LSU
Arky - ESPN
at UT - ESPN/2

http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/NEW...-schedule.aspx

Home and home with Florida, Arky, Ole Miss, South Carolina, and LSU.

At first glance, this schedule sets up well for us. The only obvious games we won't be favored are at Kentucky and Florida.

I was kinda hoping that Kentucky would be coming to Mizzou Arena this year.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Got to keep winning these European exhibitions. It helps the team to build confidence against teams we should beat.

You certainly don't want to lose.

[KcMizzou]

MU’s Haith forfeits exhibition against Dutch team
By TEREZ A. PAYLOR
The Kansas City Star


It’s certainly not unusual for crazy things to go down in Amsterdam — the city certainly has a reputation for partying — but it’s safe to say no one could have predicted what happened to Missouri’s basketball team there Saturday.

The Tigers, who are on a five-game European tour, forfeited their exhibition against the Dutch National Team's under-24 squad because coach Frank Haith said he feared for his players’ safety.

Haith’s decision to pull his players off the floor came in the third quarter after his team had built a 25-point lead. Haith had just been ejected for arguing a no-call after Tigers freshman forward Stefan Jankovic apparently took an elbow to the head. Haith decided to act, though it sounds like he regrets pulling them off the floor.

“In my mind I was just fearful for the safety of our players, but in retrospect I wish I had let our team play it out and learn from the adversity,” Haith said in a statement released after the game. “I take complete responsibility. This is a learning experience for us all.”

Junior forward Earnest Ross said in a statement that he understood Haith’s decision.

“We are competitors, we want to play, but when we saw the look in Coach Haith’s eyes we knew he had our backs,” Ross said. “We are a family and it feels great knowing your head coach will step out there for you like this.”

Dutch national team manager Matthijs Groot — who organized the event — called Haith’s ejection “strange” and seemed to agree with Haith’s decision.

“It (the ejection) came so suddenly came out of the blue,” Groot said in a statement. “There were inconsistent calls on both sides including a technical foul on the Dutch, so our staff could understand that the game was stopped. It was just a pity it got to that point.”

Missouri, which returns home Aug. 18, plays game three of its trip Monday in Belgium against Waragem.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/11...#storylink=cpy

[Ebolapox]

Originally Posted by KcMizzou

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/11...#storylink=cpy

so, the dutch are a buncha cheap shotting bastards? hmmmmmm.

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

I was kinda hoping that Kentucky would be coming to Mizzou Arena this year.

It will be nice to be able to travel about 20 miles and watch the Tigers play in person. Watch for me...I will probably be the only guy wearing MU black and gold in a sea of Kentucky blue.

[stonedstooge]

Sounds like one of the games the Tigers used to play at KU

[Saul Good]

[Saul Good]

From another board. Holy shit...


Originally posted by KimEnglish:
I thank him every day to my self. Well more so I thank God that he left!! Crazy how circumstance is. If Mike would have stayed I would have 1) Kept my name in the draft, went undrafted and would be miserable playing basketball in Istanbul somewhere. 2) Transfered and been about to start my senior season at some other school. He left so I got to stay and finish my career and education at the place that I love more than any place on earth. He left, so I was blessed to be coached and mentored by the best coach I could have ever imagined having in Frank Haith. I got to learn and be Obsessive about my preparation for games with the best Game prep and player development staff I've ever seen in this business. I got to finish my career the right way and now am living my life long dream and 2 weeks away from my first training camp and my first NBA season. I'm a forgiving soul, well kinda. I'm thankful Melvin Watkins and Mike Anderson recruited me to Columbia. I'm blessed to have known his staff and their wives and kids. I truly love all of them. But the thing that I am most thankful for... Is that Mike Anderson left for Arkansas. I'm so blessed for that decision he made. All the sleepless, miserable nights of my junior year. All the unpreparedness going into games. All my unconfident nights my junior year. I wouldn't trade them for the world. It taught me so much. And molded me into a better person. When he left. I got my team back. The division in that 2010-11 team left right out the door with him. And it showed in our play last season. So if I saw him at the golf tournament. I would've said "Thank you" as well. But I wouldve said thanks for leaving my school!

[Saul Good]

Sounds like Mizzou will play in the 2013 carriet hoops tournament with Texas, NC State, and Kentucky.

[CoMoChief]

Still can't help but to whenever I see or hear the name "Mizzou Basketball".

[Ebolapox]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

Still can't help but to whenever I see or hear the name "Mizzou Basketball".

funny--that's what this whole board when they see your username attached to any opinion.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

Still can't help but to whenever I see or hear the name "Mizzou Basketball".

I'll admit, it makes me chuckle, too. Seriously, how does a conference let itself get punked in the last conference game a school ever plays before getting a promotion to the big-time?

[Spott]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

Still can't help but to whenever I see or hear the name "Mizzou Basketball".

It's even funnier that a person that's from Missouri, has no ties to the state of Kansas or it's university, lives in Missouri, attended Mizzou, follows the football team and has man crushes on all the ex MU football players tries to act like they're the #1 all time KU fan.

[CoMoChief]

Originally Posted by Saul Badguy

I'll admit, it makes me chuckle, too. Seriously, how does a conference let itself get punked in the last conference game a school ever plays before getting a promotion to the big-time?

If anyone cared about that at all, they cared about it for around a week until MU laid a giant T-Rex sized turd in the opening round of the NCAA tourney against Norfolk St. Then everyone laughed at them and said good riddance.

It's not like the Big12 crumbled when MU left the conference. Hell they even added a better bball program anyways in WVU. So really the conference got better.