For Booker, Missouri Always Home ; Former Tiger Star Pays Visit During Public Practice.

Columbia Daily Tribune › October 25, 2010

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A homecoming trip to Columbia is still a special treat for Melvin Booker.

Booker, who was the leader of a Missouri basketball team that went unbeaten in the Big Eight Conference in 1994 and who remains the program's last consensus All-American, spent 13 years playing professional basketball overseas.

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For Booker, Missouri Always Home ; Former Tiger Star Pays Visit During Public Practice.

It was only after his retirement last year that he first got to return with the thousands of other Missouri alumni to his alma mater and rendezvous for a weekend with former teammates. He was back in town again this weekend and joined the estimated crowd of 2,500 people that filed into Mizzou Arena yesterday afternoon to watch a rare public practice conducted by Coach Mike Anderso...

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