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RE: Elite program at Mizzou
Posted on: April 1, 2025 at 11:45:03 CT
GreatScott MU
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What kind of puzzles me, is that MU was one of the first schools to have a good (but not great) women's basketball program. From 1982-1987, they averaged 22 wins, made five NCAA tournaments (one Sweet 16) and had two first-place and two second-place finishes.
You would think that more "elite" athletes would want to play at power school in a major conference. Unfortunately, that was the around the time that the men's team won four straight conference titles and women's hoops had far less interest in Columbia than it does even now.
Many of the better athletes were going to schools like Old Dominion and Louisiana Tech because they had great coaches, great programs and women's basketball was essentially the only game in town. So fans cared and supported them more.
A lot of that is why MO State could get local and regional players like the Howard sisters and Jackie Stiles, who took the program to two Final Fours.
That fact should be most embarrassing of all to the MU administration. Hopefully, Harper will follow that model in establishing her program.
And in the rare seasons that MU has true difference-making players coming out of high school (like Napheesia Collier and Kristin Fokl), she HAS to be able to get them.
You would think that more "elite" athletes would want to play at power school in a major conference. Unfortunately, that was the around the time that the men's team won four straight conference titles and women's hoops had far less interest in Columbia than it does even now.
Many of the better athletes were going to schools like Old Dominion and Louisiana Tech because they had great coaches, great programs and women's basketball was essentially the only game in town. So fans cared and supported them more.
A lot of that is why MO State could get local and regional players like the Howard sisters and Jackie Stiles, who took the program to two Final Fours.
That fact should be most embarrassing of all to the MU administration. Hopefully, Harper will follow that model in establishing her program.
And in the rare seasons that MU has true difference-making players coming out of high school (like Napheesia Collier and Kristin Fokl), she HAS to be able to get them.
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RE: Elite program at Mizzou - GreatScott MU - 4/1 11:45:03