Former Mizzou player Jeff Warren dies; remembered for loyalty, toughness - STLtoday.com
COLUMBIA, Mo. • Jeff Warren wasn’t the biggest star on Norm Stewart ’s Missouri basketball teams in the early 1990s, but he was a crucial piece to a program that won 86 games during his four-year career. “The Antlers had a nickname for Jeff,” former MU teammate John Burns recalled Friday. Warren wasn’t about to quit last July when he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of lymphoma. Burns, his former roommate and close friend, spoke to Warren a couple weeks ago. “But he said, ‘I’m not going to quit,’ even though he knew his time was coming. Warren died Friday in Kansas City where he had gone into hospice care. Warren was diagnosed last July 2014, according to updates on a youcaring. Warren was 44. “He was loyal as could be as a friend,” Burns said. “He could keep going on and on and it wouldn’t matter what was going on with him. , lettered four seasons for the Tigers from 1989-90 to 1992-93. He averaged 6. 7 points and 4. 4 rebounds for his career, with his most productive season coming in 1991-92, when he averaged 9. 6 points and 6. 0 rebounds for Norm Stewart’s team. He still holds the team record for 24 consecutive field goals made, set over four games in 1991-92. Warren and Burns were the only seniors on the 1992-93 team that won the Big Eight tournament in Kansas City. “Even when he came up as a freshman he was a guy who found his way on the court,” said Burns, the head basketball coach at Battle High in Columbia. Source: www.stltoday.com
