LEXINGTON, Ky. • A stunning and bitter end notwithstanding, most of Mizzou’s 2011-2012 basketball season was testament to resourceful and nimble coaching that shaped those Tigers into more than the sum of their parts in a 30-5 run with a four-guard set necessitated by the season-ending injury to forward Laurence Bowers. Their often-exhilarating play left a stamp of promise ahead as first-year MU coach Frank Haith earned multiple national coach of the year honors. By contrast, the sour end to this season in an 84-72 NCAA Tournament loss Thursday to Colorado State hardly was a surprise at all, other than perhaps the lackluster effort that supplemented it after so much talk all week of the...
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