(AP) -- Missouri athletic director Mike Alden isn't hearing many complaints these days about his new men's basketball coach.
Under Frank Haith, the ninth-ranked Tigers are 11-0 heading into the annual border rivalry game against No. 25 Illinois on Thursday in St. Louis.
It's the best start for the school in 20 years, since Norm Stewart was storming the court in his heyday.
Haith is in his first year at Missouri, taking over for Mike Anderson.
Haith arrived as a virtually unknown fallback candidate from Miami who failed to make any kind of dent in the Atlantic Coast Conference and mentioned in the Yahoo expose of the Hurricanes athletics program.
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