COLUMBIA, Mo. — Dennis Gates is wearing a Lululemon hoodie with a hole in the right elbow. Gray sweats. Gray high tops. Same outfit he wore yesterday, same one he’ll wear tomorrow. On game days, Missouri’s coach is always in the same black suit, a gold tie and the shoes he wore to his introductory news conference five and a half years ago for his first head coaching job, at Cleveland State.
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It’s not superstition. Gates does not want to waste time or energy on what to wear each morning. Fittingly, he wears the same face every day, too. Prefers that you cannot tell whether he won or lost. “That’s
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