It was mentioned below that this upcoming season may be the least talented MU team of all time (I still hold that 2016-17 will always hold that distinction and can not realistically be surpassed). But that got me thinking about the worst Tiger team of the modern era before MU gave up on men's basketball in 2014, the 2005-06 Tigers.
MU got 11th in the Big 12 that year and went 12-16 overall, the only instance in the program's modern history pre-2014 of not winning at least 16 games. Until we hired Kim, it was by a wide margin the mark for modern futility at MU.
But whereas next year we will likely have zero players who were top 100 recruits, that team had 7. In fact, that team had 4 top 50 rated players and we have only had 4 of those total in the program since 2014 (and 3 of the 4 barely played for MU).
You look at where the program used to be at its very lowest points, and we don't have any realistic shot of approaching that kind of level of talent anymore. Here are the aggregate rankings of the 2005-06 roster per
https://sites.google.com/site/rscihoops/home/rankings
35 --- Jimmy McKinney
38 --- Thomas Gardner
45 --- Jason Horton
47 --- Marshall Brown
63 --- Kalen Grimes
66 --- Leo Lyons
93 --- Kevin Young
Edited by FIJItiger at 11:36:48 on 05/05/21