Late last season, soon-to-be national champion and then-freshman J’den Cox pulled then-redshirt freshman Lavion Mayes aside after practice. Cox knew that Mayes had been struggling on bottom in duals...
Thirty seconds remaining, a 12-point lead. All Keith Shamburger had to do was run out the clock.
“Finally,” Missouri coach Kim Anderson said after his team’s second win in 2015.
Spot on, Coach.
After...
Ask Missouri women’s basketball senior guard Morgan Eye about any of her teammates and she’ll give you a rousing review.
Junior guard Juanita Robinson: “Mature.”
Senior forward Bree Fowler? “Most...
Storming the court. It's meant to be a once-in-a-lifetime type of thing. Something you get to tell people. “Yeah I was there and yeah, it was incredible.”
I'll never forget when dozens of MQP faithful...
She’s been through this all before.
She was a freshman, completely new to the summer workouts and daily practices being run by women’s basketball coach Robin Pingeton.
She was a sophomore, setting...
During his official visit to the University of Missouri on Dec. 12, 2014, Marquise Doherty was sat down by a handful of coaches.
Among them were football coach Gary Pinkel and baseball coach Tim Jamieson.
In...
For a pair of boys who lived so close to an amusement park in Altoona, Iowa, the Miklus brothers had a lot of excess energy.
When they were five and six years old, their father devised a unique and, as...
On Feb. 5 at Mizzou Arena, a tall figure checked in for Missouri’s women’s basketball team as it took on Texas A&M.
This player was not on the Aggies’ scouting report.
In her first minute on the...
When fifth-year senior guard Keith Shamburger transferred to Missouri for his final season of college basketball, all he could think was: _Man, I wonder who they’re going to room me with._
Questions...
Against the top-ranked South Carolina women’s basketball team, she scored a career-high 22 points.
Going up against Texas A&M and Auburn a month later, she didn’t make a single shot.
Her very next...
Growing up playing basketball, there is one thing you and your friends practice in the driveway more than hitting a buzzer-beater to win a championship. And that is dunking.
Dunking on a 7-foot rim with...
This past weekend, the NBA took its biggest event to the biggest stage. The world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, played host to basketball’s most infamous game, the NBA All-Star Game.
It’s...
