Let's rank awful seasons!

[Galway Eagle]

Sticking to the years since the MU resurgence under O'Neil in 92/93 thenMU has missed the postseason:

2025/26: currently living in hell, Chase is good... usually.

2020/21: 13-14 & 8-11, Shortened season, started off hot with wins over UW & Creighton. Played iconically terrible despite some crazy talented head cases on that team.

2015/16: 20-13 & 8-10; beat UW and Providence, 1st round pick in Ellenson. We don't choke against Belmont and DePaul maybe we're in the NCAAs.
 
2014/15: 13-19 & 4-14; Car3ino got to showcase himself... Juan wasn't terrible and Duane Wilson & Luke Fischer seemed to give us legit future hope.

2013/14: 17-15 & 9-9; Buzz chokes with possibly the most senior laden MU team ever. But we were still a bubble team fairly late in the year.

2000/01: 15-14 & 9-7; Wardle showcases himself, rumblings of a talented practice player. Somehow finish higher in CUSA and same record but no NIT.

1998/99: 14-15 & 6-10; Deane's "recruiting" gets exposed and he's fired.

I'd probably go

15/16
13/14
20/21
00/01
Probably the remaining 3 are tied for biggest crap after that?

[Eye]

Id say number 2 right now for me behind 20-21. Attended 2 games a year during Dukiet years but lived 3 hours away so little MU news. Knew there was improvement coming with KO. Some similarities to Deane's 5th year and Crean's two years after the FF before the triplets but neither were this bad. Brent's final year still had some shot to make tourney before collapse at end.

[GoldenEagles03]

The 15/16 overachieved. Ellenson was a 1st round pick but he didn't pan out to actually be that. That team started 3 Freshman and still won 20 games.

This years team is the worst team of all of those listed by quite a large margin.

[brewcity77]

This team is the worst because those others, either we knew preseason there was no real NCAA hope or they flirted with it as the season went. 2016, 2021, 2014, those were all years where a couple flipped results could've put us in. This team needs to go 15-5 just to get on the bubble.

Honestly, 2001 shouldn't even be on here. Rumors of Wade were circulating, we swept Cincinnati, Crean was selling the program, the vibe was 100% opposite of this. I know it was one of his worst kenpom seasons, but kenpom wasn't a thing then. We had a winning CUSA record and were on the upswing.

[NCMUFan]

Hard to think of a previous team.

[panda]

In a vacuum, this is the worst team in the last 25 years.

Given the circumstances surrounding the program, 4 straight ncaa tournaments etc., this team is an absolute catastrophe. Shaka stressed RGV going into this year and the product he put out is horrendous. Serious questions should be asked of his competency to build a program after this season.

[NCMUFan]

Remember listening to the ending of the MU vs Illinois game in November 2021 thinking this is amazing beating a No 10 ranked team so early after coming in as a new head coach.
Wow, what happened?

[DoctorV]

Remember listening to the ending of the MU vs Illinois game in November 2021 thinking this is amazing beating a No 10 ranked team so early after coming in as a new head coach.
Wow, what happened?

That was one of my favorite games I've ever attended, it was awesome

[Viper]

Sticking to the years since the MU resurgence under O'Neil in 92/93 thenMU has missed the postseason:

2025/26: currently living in hell, Chase is good... usually.

2020/21: 13-14 & 8-11, Shortened season, started off hot with wins over UW & Creighton. Played iconically terrible despite some crazy talented head cases on that team.

2015/16: 20-13 & 8-10; beat UW and Providence, 1st round pick in Ellenson. We don't choke against Belmont and DePaul maybe we're in the NCAAs.
 
2014/15: 13-19 & 4-14; Car3ino got to showcase himself... Juan wasn't terrible and Duane Wilson & Luke Fischer seemed to give us legit future hope.

2013/14: 17-15 & 9-9; Buzz chokes with possibly the most senior laden MU team ever. But we were still a bubble team fairly late in the year.

2000/01: 15-14 & 9-7; Wardle showcases himself, rumblings of a talented practice player. Somehow finish higher in CUSA and same record but no NIT.

1998/99: 14-15 & 6-10; Deane's "recruiting" gets exposed and he's fired.

I'd probably go

15/16
13/14
20/21
00/01
Probably the remaining 3 are tied for biggest crap after that?

i'd take this to the Dukiet era, just prior to KO. That was a dark dark time. Getting scolded on home court at MECCA by Digger Phelps on the PA. 😨

[Billy Hoyle]

Honestly, 2001 shouldn't even be on here. Rumors of Wade were circulating, we swept Cincinnati, Crean was selling the program, the vibe was 100% opposite of this. I know it was one of his worst kenpom seasons, but kenpom wasn't a thing then. We had a winning CUSA record and were on the upswing.

Absolutely. Crean had his first recruiting class as freshmen after inheriting a recruiting class of only Krunti Hester in his first year. He'd already proven the ability to land recruits more talented than we'd seen in a long time in Merritt, Sanders, Blankson and Wade. Expectations for that season (and the season before) were pretty low, abut we all knew the future was bright.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-times/55903987/

98-99 should definitely be up there due to the absolute lack of talent on the team, the future of the program looking dark and fan interest and attendance was dropping significantly. We were on the path to irrelevance.

[MUEng92]

It is just crazy to me that people remember specific seasons/games enough to offer an opinion on this, unless it's tied in with a specific life event like your time as a student at MU or something like that.

I don't know if I should be worried that my memory is terrible so I can't even begin to recall something like this or I should be proud that I'm able to love/hate it in the moment but then move on with life.

[ATL MU Warrior]

It is just crazy to me that people remember specific seasons/games enough to offer an opinion on this, unless it's tied in with a specific life event like your time as a student at MU or something like that.

I don't know if I should be worried that my memory is terrible so I can't even begin to recall something like this or I should be proud that I'm able to love/hate it in the moment but then move on with life.

I'm with you. I choose the latter.

[CountryRoads]

This one seems the worst to me. Never remember checking out of a season a week before Thanksgiving like this one.

Besides, the other seasons are all right near the edge of regime changes... hmm.

[brewcity77]

It is just crazy to me that people remember specific seasons/games enough to offer an opinion on this, unless it's tied in with a specific life event like your time as a student at MU or something like that.

I don't know if I should be worried that my memory is terrible so I can't even begin to recall something like this or I should be proud that I'm able to love/hate it in the moment but then move on with life.

I remember 2001 because I attended MU from 2001-04. Wasn't going to classes yet during that team but lived in the area, was in the process of touring campus and enrolling, and talking to other students regularly. While I watched MU before that, it was the beginning of my direct attachment to the program.

[Badgerhater]

Bad seasons 1-7:  Wojo era

The worst was actually the one with the best record.  That team was dying in place at the end.

I was at the Seton Hall BET game where he cluelessly watched his team get manhandled and let an injured Markus Howard take (and miss) every shot.

[HutchwasClutch]

Bad seasons 1-7:  Wojo era

I didn't like Wojo at all long before the consensus finally emerged that he couldn't coach.  But at least he understood what high level D-1 talent looked like and recruited accordingly. 

[NCMUFan]

I'm with you. I choose the latter.

Sure, most games I cannot recall.  But others I believe are memorable.
Another one was the FF season against Louisville with Marquette still in CUSA.  Earlier in the season, Louisville beat MU at home in the last second.  The second matchup was in Louisville and Marquette was getting trounced at half time.  The comeback was something like the basketball game in the movie the Absent Minded Professor.

[Galway Eagle]

Bad seasons 1-7:  Wojo era

The worst was actually the one with the best record.  That team was dying in place at the end.

I was at the Seton Hall BET game where he cluelessly watched his team get manhandled and let an injured Markus Howard take (and miss) every shot.

This is a ridiculously bad take. I'm all for hating Wojo but you're including two tournament teams, one that would've made the tournament, another that just missed, arguably two that just missed. To say those were worse than this year or Deane last is ridiculous.

[Badgerhater]

This is a ridiculously bad take. I'm all for hating Wojo but you're including two tournament teams, one that would've made the tournament, another that just missed, arguably two that just missed. To say those were worse than this year or Deane last is ridiculous.

Wojo was destructive to the entire MU program.  It just wasn't just his horrible style  of basketball.

[Small Orange Soda]

This is a ridiculously bad take. I'm all for hating Wojo but you're including two tournament teams, one that would've made the tournament, another that just missed, arguably two that just missed. To say those were worse than this year or Deane last is ridiculous.

The Wojo regime wasn't worse than this year's awful squad, but there was a clear futility to his time here that was depressing. It didn't take long to realize he wasn't going to be successful, but he did just enough to stick around for awhile.

[Billy Hoyle]

Wojo was destructive to the entire MU program.  It just wasn't just his horrible style  of basketball.

As proven by his last two recruiting classes, right?