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Tigers roar past Rebels to open up women’s basketball conference play

Owen Krucoff • January 4, 2019

Women’s basketball in the SEC is not supposed to be a cakewalk. During Missouri's team media day on Wednesday, coach Robin Pingeton and a few players stressed the difficulty of the conference schedule...

Setting the scene for Missouri and the SEC in women’s basketball conference play

Owen Krucoff • January 3, 2019

The SEC women’s basketball conference schedule tips off on Thursday, Jan. 3 with a full slate of seven games. Missouri and the rest of the league will work through the 16-game conference lineup before...

Missouri receives much needed addition in Porter heading into SEC play

Lucas Smith • January 3, 2019

Normally, an 11-3 record heading into conference play is a positive. However, for the Missouri Tigers, it is a drastic underachievement. Missouri hadn’t lost a nonconference regular-season home game...

Missouri uses high percentage at the free throw line to down the Red Wolves

Lucas Smith • December 31, 2018

Cierra Porter stepped to the charity stripe on Sunday afternoon barely out of medical retirement and looking to convert two free throws. She stepped away from it the 36th member of 1,000 career points...

Cierra Porter to make midseason return to Missouri women’s basketball

Owen Krucoff • December 30, 2018

Veteran forward Cierra Porter will return to Missouri women's basketball for the remainder of the 2018-19 season, the team announced Saturday. After spending her freshman through junior years with the...

Missouri uses fast start to manage 75-61 win over Morehead State

Adam Cole • December 29, 2018

Mark Smith had a hard time scoring against his former team when Missouri faced Illinois last week. He scored 5 points. It took him two minutes to surpass that against Morehead State Saturday. Tied 2-2...

Tigers play as one to down the Illini, earn Braggin’ Rights

Lucas Smith • December 24, 2018

CHAMPAIGN, Il.- The Missouri Tigers (10-3, 0-0) faced off with the Illinois Fighting Illini (8-3, 0-0) on Friday afternoon for the annual Braggin’ Rights game. Although the Illini held an 8-4 all-time...

No one has more right to brag than Jordan Geist

Bennett Durando • December 23, 2018

ST. LOUIS – The man who climbed over photographers on the baseline to grab the comically large mop transcended swagger for just a moment as he swabbed the deck. Jordan Geist cut the tension in front...

Missouri runs away from Illinois, snaps five-year Braggin’ Rights losing streak

Andy Kimball • December 23, 2018

ST. LOUIS - Jeremiah Tilmon, Mark Smith and Javon Pickett were given a loud and unwarm welcome back to their hometown on Saturday night. Their exit was much louder. Forty minutes after stepping on the...

Missouri boasts Illinois’ exes into Braggin’ Rights

Bennett Durando • December 22, 2018

ST. LOUIS – The University of Missouri basketball team’s roster has more combined wins against itself than it has against the University of Illinois. 1-0. Illinois (4-7) has won the last five installments...

Tigers beat the Bobcats behind big night from Cunningham, spark from Roundtree

Lucas Smith • December 19, 2018

Looking to return to being a top-25 team after a second absence this season, the Missouri Tigers (9-3, 0-0) hosted the Texas State Bobcats (4-5, 0-0) Monday night at Mizzou Arena. In front of a crowd...

Behind Jeremiah Tilmon, Tigers trounce Xavier, 71-56

Andy Kimball • December 18, 2018

Jeremiah Tilmon walked to the bench and looked up at the Mizzou Arena jumbotron with 1:36 left on Tuesday night. Instead of finding a seat on the bench due to fouling out late, Tilmon saw a career-high...