and I thought no team would top the Stipo/Sunvold ones.

I have never been as excited about “next year” either!

from being picked to finish 7th in the Big XII to winning the Big XII to coming out and giving one of the best performances a Missouri team has had in the NCAA tourney, this season has gave us Tiger fans so many memories. Hopefully it will be remembered as the season that started a run of great teams at Mizzou!

Thanks for the ride…and if the young’uns pick up next year where they left off this tournament, I’ve got high hopes for next year.
To Mike Alden: Lock up CMA NOW!!!!

This has been a great run.

what to do until August

I am so appreciative of how our guys came out and played all year. They played with heart and purpose. You have done your University and the whole fanbase proud. What a wild and amazing ride this year.

Thank You.

I’m really gonna miss DeMarre…

and how pissed is keon lawrence right now?

But I grew up on March Madness and college basketball. After last year, I didn’t think I’d ever get to see my school make the NCAA tournament while I was there.

Then we went 18-0 at home, beat kU and OU, won the Big 12 tournament, and was awarded a #3 seed in the tournament. We didn’t stop there. We beat Cornell. We beat Marquette. And we beat the team I had winning it all in Memphis.

And we did it with one of the most likable bunches of players possible. Demarre, Leo, Goose, and Mikey will be missed, but the way Kimmie, Ramsey, and especially Safford played at points in the tournament makes me think we’re going to be right back with a shot at the final four next year.

Missouri cares about basketball again, and it feels great.

I am so appreciative of how our guys came out and played all year. They played with heart and purpose. You have done your University and the whole fanbase proud. What a wild and amazing ride this year

(i couldn’t have said it better myself)

I love that even though we lost, we did it with class. Take note to that Marquette.

Loved every minute of the season.

Thanks everyone. . . . .

I had such a blast.

I am going to write on their facebook pages how proud I am of the team.

We went from a pretty average team to a really great team as the season went on. Every single player got better as the season went on, and we peaked at the right time.
UConn is the best team in the country, and I wish them the best the rest of the season.

This team got so much better throughout the season thanks to the coaching of Anderson and the senior leadership. What a fun team to watch.

I cried at the end of the game. Not because we won’t be going to a final four (well, kinda) but because I was so proud of these kids and I hope they don’t feel bad at the end of the season. They have reignited a university and a town with enthusiasm and hope. They have fought against every naysayer and believed in themselves. They are a bunch of really great kids who played really great basketball.

 . . . that is all I can think to say.

I was there for the end of Norm, and the beginning of . . . yeah, well, you know. I am so glad to see the return of greatness to MU—and I am not just talking about wins either. For the first time in a while, I have been really proud to wear my black and gold during basketball season—especially since I work in an office full of KU grads!

Thank you coach! Thank you team!

This is a great TEAM, far greater than the sum of its parts. A very likable cast of characters made even more so by their tremendous work rate and effort.

I did not watch the game from my lucky chair.

Hell, I didn’t even watch the game at all.

Instead, I met my new daughter (2 1/2 weeks early) Annie June.
Here she is doing her best DeMarre

I can’t wait to fully recap this whole season. What a blast!

But, right now, “Sleepy” does not do justice to Floyd.

Cheers boys, and MIZ!

thank you mike anderson, thank you leo, thank you DeMarre, thank you GOOOSE!, thank you KIMMEH, thank you bowers, thank you mike anerson jr, thank you denmon, thank you steve moore, thank you sutton, thank you tiller, thank you Z, thank you safford, thank you ramsey, thank you miguel paul. for a positively magical season.

“Tiger fans encouraged to welcome the team home from its Elite Eight run Sunday at 2pm on the South side of Mizzou Arena”

I’d like to thank DeMarre Carroll for being an outstanding person and being the kind of leader that Mizzou needs and deserves. I think he is one of the main reasons why we got it turned around. DeMarre made MU his home, and he’ll always be welcomed with open arms for all that he’s done.

The same goes for the rest of the team. Extra big thanks to the seniors. Especially Leo and Matt who stuck it out and were lucky enough to be a part of some thing great. Hopefully this is just the foundation for many great years to come.

you Tigers of Old Mizzou.

Suffice it to say that I have a pretty good grasp on the history of the program, and no team has ever made me more proud.

for creating some of the best memories of my life the past 6 months. i will miss you demarre, leo, matt, and mikey.

I am watching the disney channel tonight so I can keep my mind off the tournament right now. Aladdin followed by Mulan? Almost a good enough substitute for the final four

Felt good to actually want to watch a game all the way through. Exciting to see young blood that not enjoys being here, but takes it personally when the team does bad. Hell, just to see a team again instead a bunch of kids in the same clothes. They represented their school, their colors, and their coaches wel throughout this season. Much like the football team, I hope that the seniors instilled a drive to constently get better with each year, and the new seniors can impart that onto the incoming class. I wish the best of luck to JYD, Leo, Goose, and Junior on the next step, be it NBA, Europe, coaching, or the work place.

And now I enter a period of sadness, or what I also call doing my income taxes.

When’s opening day at Wrigley?

Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome season. I love this team. LOVE.

That could tide me over until the Cardinals start playing.

You all had a great run. I will be the first to admit that I was thoroughly shocked when their solid non-con play continued into the start of conference play. If any of you know who I am, then you know that I have a deep burning hate for your school, but I can appreciate (I didn’t say like, haha) a team that comes together at the right time, and makes a deep run. That said, I’m obviously still happy that you have never made a Final Four, but am glad you have been able to make it a rivalry once again; even if it’s only for one year ;) All joking aside, after being in Indianapolis last night, and watching KU’s season end, I have no shit to talk, none of my normal wisecracks, or anything of that nature. All of you guys that come over to RCT have nothing but respect, so I am more than happy to show the same. Again, congrats and see ya this fall!

See what the tournament can do to the most devoted fans? Gotta love it.

-The Final Four, even though we’re not in it.
-Opening Day.
-The Masters.
-Playoff hockey.

This is the best time of the year, I tells ya.

holy crap am I glad we didn’t lose like Pitt did. I’m not old enough to feel the pain of that really long acronym that happened in 1995, but I can only imagine how much worse it would feel if a Final Four was on the line.

(or, 1, if we had won IN Lawrence), this would have been the greatest season in Missouri history. As it is, it’s merely one of the greatest seasons in Missouri history.

What a great team, and while I’m sad we lost, I am so glad that I got to experience this team. I wish I could have watched them play more, but it is what it is.

It’s been great learning to love MU basketball again.

..my friend told me “You know it’s a good program when you feel a real hurt for the guys who are going out.”

Thank you for making me hurt? yeah, i mean that.

til next year. Hope we get a great group of happy go lucky guys like this year.

I know some will point to 1993-94 but that team’s tourney wins were vacated and they underachieved based on their seed.

This team not only won the Big 12 Tournament, they made the Elite 8 and finished third in the standings of the conference, beating the two teams ahead of them. Yeah, it would have been nice to win the reg season title and all, and that certainly would have made it an even GREATER season, but as far as comparing to past seasons goes, this one was the best IMO and that includes 1988-89 too when all elements are combined.

I can see others making different arguments but that’s my case and I’m stickin to it. :)