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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1734588" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/mizzou/cuonzo-martin-out-as-missouri-basketball-coach/article_c00c871d-1e43-5909-9d00-e59de9058ece.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p>TAMPA, Fla. — In the end, one bad season proved to be too much for Mizzou basketball to stomach another year of Cuonzo Martin. Martin will not return next season as the head coach of the Missouri men’s basketball program, the Post-Dispatch first reported Friday afternoon, not long after Martin and MU’s traveling contingent returned to Columbia from Tampa, Florida, where the Tigers’ season ended with Thursday’s loss in the second round of the Southeastern Conference tournament. Mizzou officially announced the decision Friday evening.</p><p></p><p>This was Martin’s third losing season in five years at MU, but the Tigers were far closer to breaking even in the other two. This season, the crowds at Mizzou Arena became more sparse than usual as MU ranked 12th in attendance among SEC teams, averaging 6,600 fans per home game. In November, Martin signed his highest-rated recruit since his first few weeks on the job five years ago, four-star forward Aidan Shawn, but that wasn’t enough to inspire hope he could revive the program in the near future .Instead, the Tigers will launch a fifth head-coaching search in the last 16 years, a turnstile that underscores the program’s failures to maintain any shred of success over the last two decades.</p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1734588, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/mizzou/cuonzo-martin-out-as-missouri-basketball-coach/article_c00c871d-1e43-5909-9d00-e59de9058ece.html[/URL] TAMPA, Fla. — In the end, one bad season proved to be too much for Mizzou basketball to stomach another year of Cuonzo Martin. Martin will not return next season as the head coach of the Missouri men’s basketball program, the Post-Dispatch first reported Friday afternoon, not long after Martin and MU’s traveling contingent returned to Columbia from Tampa, Florida, where the Tigers’ season ended with Thursday’s loss in the second round of the Southeastern Conference tournament. Mizzou officially announced the decision Friday evening. This was Martin’s third losing season in five years at MU, but the Tigers were far closer to breaking even in the other two. This season, the crowds at Mizzou Arena became more sparse than usual as MU ranked 12th in attendance among SEC teams, averaging 6,600 fans per home game. In November, Martin signed his highest-rated recruit since his first few weeks on the job five years ago, four-star forward Aidan Shawn, but that wasn’t enough to inspire hope he could revive the program in the near future .Instead, the Tigers will launch a fifth head-coaching search in the last 16 years, a turnstile that underscores the program’s failures to maintain any shred of success over the last two decades. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [/QUOTE]
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