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Dear Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina and all those other allegedly superior hoop-crazed states that tend to believe a basketball rises in the East, sets in the West and in the meantime basks its wonderful orange glow on you and only you:
Please make a little room for the Show-Me State.
In case you haven't been paying close attention — and why haven't you? — the state of Missouri is making quite a name for itself in college basketball this season. By the end of this weekend, the top two Division I programs in the state (No. 4 ranked University of Missouri and unranked St. Louis U.) could firmly be established as first-place teams in two of the better college basketball conferences in the nation.
Of course, Missouri (22-2) is playing the role of the big...
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