Missouri men's basketball opponent has New York inspired swagger

Sunday, March 21, 2010 | 12:01 a.m. CDT

BUFFALO, N.Y. – About seven hours southeast of Buffalo, N.Y., in the opposite corner of the state, is Mahoney Park in the New Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island, where Missouri’s Zaire Taylor and West Virginia’s Dan Jennings played a late-night game of one-on-one this summer.

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