Thanks Jake! I keep up with Bobcat Tracks a lot - hooked after the Mark Sears episode. You guys do a great podcast and you should get BVP on!

I grew up in Connecticut back in the day so I knew all about him. He was a 3-time! 1st team high school All American at Kolbe High in Bridgeport and the National High School Player of the Year his senior year.

I had just graduated from Mizzou and was working in St. Louis when I heard Mizzou was to open their new fieldhouse in Columbia, the Hearnes Center. They were to open against Ohio, and Luckett was on the cover of SI. I had to be there. My connections were Connecticut and Mizzou, not Ohio at that time. I'm probably one of very few Bobcats who saw that game and I'm sure the only one rooting against them. Fortunately I did get to see him again in the Convo his last year when I arrived in A-Town. He scored over 25 ppg that year. “Bucket by Luckett”.

Recall little about that 1st game. Mizzou won, Luckett didn’t start but he got in early, hit a few nice baseline corner jumpers, but wasn’t particularly noticeable.

Got to chat with him at the Convo on his returns here. Social, pleasant, knowledgeable guy.

"Stick it in the bucket"