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Haith making himself known in new state

Ryan Hood • November 15, 2011

Days after an EF-5 tornado devastated the town of Joplin, killing 162 people and destroying roughly 30 percent of the town's infrastructure, first-year Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith assisted in...

Five storylines to watch for

Ryan Hood • November 15, 2011

Missouri basketball enters the season receiving much less national attention than last year, despite ranking No. 25 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. The team's current senior class has already secured...

Seniors look to carry Tigers

Seth Boster • November 15, 2011

Three years doesn’t seem long ago at all, senior guard Marcus Denmon said. “It’s our last season,” Denmon said of seniors in the team’s starting rotation. “I remember us coming in as freshmen...

Pressey leads Tigers’ change-of-pace offense in win over Mercer

Seth Boster • November 15, 2011

Had the Missouri men’s basketball team decided to play the brand of offense it has grown accustomed to over the years, it would have likely had Mercer huffing-and-puffing. Mercer started four forwards...

Missouri’s SEC move to cause changes for wrestling

Matthew Fairburn • November 11, 2011

The Missouri Tigers wrestling program faces major changes after the university announced its decision Sunday to leave the Big 12 Conference for the SEC, which is not currently a home to a single Division-I...

Tigers rally to win season opener

Ryan Hood • November 11, 2011

Despite the 83-68 final, Friday night’s season opener for Missouri basketball did not go as smoothly as coach Frank Haith had hoped for in his MU debut at Mizzou Arena. A sloppy start by the Tigers,...

Niemann spurs Tigers to victory in final exhibition

Sam Rourke • November 11, 2011

Tuesday’s final exhibition tune-up for the Missouri women’s basketball team against UM-St. Louis didn’t go quite as scripted for much of the night. The Tigers were able to eventually prevail by a...

Ratliffe dominates in exhibition finale

Ryan Hood • November 8, 2011

Senior center Ricardo Ratliffe was the biggest athlete on the court Monday night. And he played like it. Ratliffe was integral in helping Missouri dig itself out of an early hole to defeat Central Missouri...

Tigers seek slower tempo on offense

Ryan Hood • November 4, 2011

When former coach Mike Anderson bolted from Missouri for Arkansas, his famed “Fastest 40 Minutes of basketball” were "gone in 60 seconds" from Missouri hoops. Gone is the non-stop full-court press...

Tigers start new season of Pingeton’s rebuilding project

Connor Casey • November 4, 2011

The Missouri women’s basketball team faced plenty of questions at the beginning of last season: How was new coach Robin Pingeton going to turn around the program? How would the Tigers survive in an incredibly...

Denmon leads team in identity search in win over Truman State

Seth Boster • November 2, 2011

Missouri men’s basketball coach Frank Haith told senior guard Marcus Denmon that he could expect 20 minutes on the floor before the team’s exhibition game against Truman State on Wednesday. Denmon...

Tigers rout Bulldogs in exhibition opener

Sam Rourke • November 1, 2011

A host of newcomers finally got their chance to shine in Mizzou’s home opener Tuesday at Mizzou Arena. The Tigers began their 2011 campaign with an exhibition rout of Division II school Truman State,...