KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Since Dennis Gates was introduced as the new University of Missouri men's basketball coach on March 22, he's been something of a perpetual motion machine. So when he paused to speak with the media at a Mizzou fan function at Chicken N Pickle in Overland Park, no wonder he needed to get his bearings when asked about his first month on the job.
"What day of the week is it?" he said.
Gates was smiling but not necessarily joking. After all, this was one of 16 such stops scheduled around the region and in Dallas and Chicago between April 12 and May 19 (and among around 25 overall stops) on Missouri's Come HOME Tour caravan.
