Mike Anderson

• Mike Anderson ; a Good but Short Run

Everyone wanted Mike Anderson to remain as the University of Missouri's head basketball coach until he announced he would move to Arkansas; suddenly most everyone, it seems, wants him out of town on a rail. The immediate irritation stems from the coach's seeming promise that he would stay forever, only to be broken within days as the Arkansas deal gelled. Even before the final weeks, however, growing numbers of fans were critical of the team's lack of late-season success. The same players that had excited fans and won games for most of the season suddenly were lackluster and losing games. This skepticism quickly turned to hope a new coach can do better.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• March 26, 2011

• Mike Anderson Says Mu Rivalry Won't Be About Him

DESTIN, Fla. -- Former Missouri men's basketball Coach Mike Anderson returned to Columbia last month to attend the graduation ceremonies for several of his former players. The experience, Anderson said yesterday, spoke to the bond they shared -- despite his controversial exit last year. Mike Anderson:

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• May 31, 2012

• Mike Anderson Is Again Weighing His Options

For a third consecutive year, Missouri basketball fans are on edge waiting to find out if Mike Anderson is headed out of Columbia. This time it's Arkansas that appears to be pursuing the MU basketball coach, who has guided the Tigers to the past three NCAA Tournaments but ended this season by losing five of the last six games. Anderson has said nothing to indicate his interest in the Razorbacks, for whom he spent 17 seasons as an assistant coach under his mentor Nolan Richardson, but he's also made no statements in the past 72 hours reiterating earlier comments about his desire to remain at Missouri.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• March 22, 2011

• Mike Anderson, 1942-2011

Mike Anderson, 69, of Centertown passed away Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011, at Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City. Anderson

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• October 11, 2011

• After Building Program, Mike Anderson Attracts Blue-Chip Recruits

Keeping up with the shifting moods of oversized and obscenely athletic adolescents has never been easier than in this Internet age. The same technology that's allowed for social networking has provided a proliferation of information on the next crop of college basketball standouts and the schizophrenic manner in which they choose their schools.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• November 12, 2010

• Sunday Q&a with Mike Anderson ; Focused On That Turnaround

It's been three weeks since the Missouri basketball team's season met its end with a loss to Nebraska in the opening round of Big 12 Tournament. That's three weeks Coach Mike Anderson has spent reflecting on the season that was - why the closest he got to the NCAA Tournament this season was this weekend's trip to San Antonio for the Final Four and the National Association of Basketball Coaches convention. It's also three weeks Anderson has used to begin looking ahead to next season, when he hopes the addition of seven newcomers will help the Tigers snap a five-year NCAA drought. Earlier this week, Anderson discussed both past and future with Tribune basketball writer Steve Walentik. Q: How much time have you spent, the last few weeks, thinking back over the season, and how much have y...

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• April 06, 2008

• Mike Anderson Takes Coaching Staff to Arkansas

New Missouri basketball Coach Frank Haith is working to assemble his coaching staff, but there won't be any holdovers from Mike Anderson's regime. Arkansas announced that former MU assistant coaches Melvin Watkins, Matt Zimmerman and T.J. Cleveland will assume the same positions on Anderson's staff with Watkins serving as the associate head coach. Anderson is also keeping Jeff Daniels as his director of basketball operations and David Deets as his strength and conditioning coach.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• April 08, 2011

• Mike Anderson Meets with Oregon

Mike Anderson met with former Oregon Athletic Director Pat Kilkenny last night in El Paso, Texas, to discuss the Ducks' vacant head-coaching position, according to a report in The Oregonian. Anderson

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• August 02, 2010

• Mike Anderson.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Even Frank Broyles and John White, the now-deposed UA decision-makers from the 2002 firing of Nolan Richardson, have to admit...

• Arkansas Business
• April 06, 2009

• Coaching Vacancy Leaves Recruit in Limbo ; Porter Waits On Mu, to Visit Georgetown, Ku.

Missouri basketball fans are not the only ones curious who will be the next coach of the Tigers. So too is Scott County Central standout Otto Porter, a 6-foot-9, 200-pound forward ranked as the 42nd-best prospect in the ESPNU 100. Porter, a native of Sikeston, had been the top recruiting target of Mike Anderson and his staff before the coach left for Arkansas. Porter remains uncommitted and has official visits planned at Georgetown next weekend and Kansas the weekend after. But he hasn't ruled out signing with the Tigers.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• April 05, 2011