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The Maneater

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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Women’s basketball earns No. 6 seed in NCAA Tournament

Women’s basketball earns No. 6 seed in NCAA Tournament

Langston Newsome March 14, 2017

No. 25 Missouri women’s basketball (21-10) celebrated back-to-back NCAA women’s tournament berths on Monday as the Tigers were selected as a No. 6 seed in the Stockton region. Mizzou’s first-round...

Look to Minnesota for hope, Mizzou men’s basketball fans

Look to Minnesota for hope, Mizzou men’s basketball fans

Nick Kelly March 14, 2017

The time has begun for fans to place their bets on which horse they think can win the race affectionately known as March Madness. Is your money on North Carolina? Or did you pick its neighbor in Durham...

Takeaways from Missouri’s surprising showing at the SEC Tournament

Takeaways from Missouri’s surprising showing at the SEC Tournament

Joe Noser , Nick Kelly March 12, 2017

As sophomore guard Terrence Phillips exited the game in the first round of the Southeastern Conference Tournament against Auburn for the final time, he embraced his coach and shared a long, emotional hug. It...

Program best score on beam for gymnastics powers Tigers to victory

Program best score on beam for gymnastics powers Tigers to victory

Dru Berry March 11, 2017

Missouri gymnastics kept rolling Friday, putting up a score of 197 for the second week in a row. The Tigers trailed the No. 12 Kentucky Wildcats heading into the final rotation, but they came from behind...

Pingeton’s hard-nosed mental approach propels Mizzou women’s basketball to success

Pingeton’s hard-nosed mental approach propels Mizzou women’s basketball to success

Titus Wu March 8, 2017

The Missouri women’s basketball team gathered around head coach Robin Pingeton for a short meeting during a late regular season practice. Pingeton laid out the pages of stats and talked briefly about...

What type of coach will Missouri men’s basketball hire next?

What type of coach will Missouri men’s basketball hire next?

Eli Lederman March 8, 2017

As Missouri students cram into Ellis Library to prepare for midterm exams (or for tornado drills), first-year athletic director Jim Sterk is now faced with his first real test just nine months after arriving...

No. 25 Missouri women’s basketball ready for NCAA Tournament

No. 25 Missouri women’s basketball ready for NCAA Tournament

Langston Newsome March 7, 2017

Despite falling to No. 6 Texas A&M 62-48 in disappointing fashion in the team’s first game of the Southeastern Conference Tournament, the outlook is still positive for Missouri women’s basketball....

Gymnast Aspen Tucker is just scratching the surface

Gymnast Aspen Tucker is just scratching the surface

Dru Berry March 7, 2017

Aspen Tucker started the meet on bars, looking to lead the Missouri Tigers to a hot start. It was the GymQuarters Invitational on Feb. 17, and the team was competing against three top-10 teams, including...

J’den Cox leads Mizzou to its sixth consecutive conference championship

J’den Cox leads Mizzou to its sixth consecutive conference championship

Joe Noser , Langston Newsome March 6, 2017

Missouri wrestling came into this weekend’s Mid-American Conference Championships looking to avenge a heartbreaking Senior Day loss to Northern Iowa that cost the team a regular season MAC Championship. And,...

Kim Anderson to step down as Missouri men’s basketball coach

Kim Anderson to step down as Missouri men’s basketball coach

Nick Kelly March 5, 2017

Kim Anderson’s time as head men’s basketball coach at his alma mater has come to a close. Athletics director Jim Sterk has asked Anderson to step down from his job as coach of the Tigers men’s basketball...

Mizzou women’s basketball sent home early from the SEC Tournament with loss to Texas A&M

Mizzou women’s basketball sent home early from the SEC Tournament with loss to Texas A&M

Langston Newsome March 5, 2017

No. 3-seeded Missouri women’s basketball (21-10, 11-5) fell in its opening game of the Southeastern Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament to No. 6-seed Texas A&M (21-10) 62-48. The Tigers had previously...

No. 15 Missouri gymnastics earns third-highest score in program history against No. 18 Auburn

No. 15 Missouri gymnastics earns third-highest score in program history against No. 18 Auburn

Chelsea Roemer March 4, 2017

No. 15 Missouri gymnastics defeated No. 18 Auburn 197.200-195.350, earning the team’s third-highest score in the program's history, at Hearnes Center on Friday. The total team score is Missouri’s...