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February 12, 2016

Coming into the game ranked eighth in the Southeastern Conference, the Missouri women's basketball team needed to beat Alabama to polish up their portfolio for potential post-season seeding. With the standout...

Vanderbilt hands Missouri basketball ninth straight loss, 86-71

Tyler Kraft • February 10, 2016

For the ninth consecutive game, the Missouri (8-16, 1-10 SEC) men’s basketball team walked off the court with their heads hung in defeat. Vanderbilt (14-10, 5-5 SEC) dominated the Tigers on Wednesday...

Stock watch: Missouri women’s basketball freshman are pivotal

Alec Lewis • February 9, 2016

The Missouri women’s basketball team (18-6, 5-6 SEC) looks to rebound from two straight conference losses, most recently Sunday’s loss to No. 11 Mississippi State (21-4, 8-3 SEC). In a bracket projection...

Turnovers costing Missouri women’s basketball in big games

Zach Stoner • February 9, 2016

It’s hard to win games when you’re constantly giving the other team the ball. There’s a word for that: turnovers. In most sports and across many leagues, turnovers are a primary ingredient for a...

Women’s basketball drops Mississippi State game, has losing conference record

Alexzandria Churchill • February 8, 2016

It was the lowest scoring game of the season. And boy was it low. In a highly defensive contest, the Missouri women’s basketball team went into the third quarter with a score still in the 20s. The unproductive...

Alabama hands Missouri eighth straight loss

Tyler Kraft • February 7, 2016

The longest losing streak of the Missouri men’s basketball team’s season continued Saturday as the Tigers lost their eighth straight game to the Alabama Crimson Tide (13-9, 4-6 SEC) 80-71. Missouri...

UPDATED: Basketball players Jakeenan Gant and Russell Woods suspended following arrests

Alec Lewis • February 5, 2016

Following the suspension of Missouri basketball players Jakeenan Gant and Russell Woods, the Tigers headed to Alabama, where their losing streak continued. Gant and Woods average 4.5 and 3.5 points per...

Three takeaways from Missouri women’s basketball’s loss to Georgia

Alexzandria Churchill • February 5, 2016

The Tigers came out with next to no energy, and it came back to bite them. Although the team stayed competitive for the majority of the game, a few major mistakes caught up to them in the end, resulting...

William Cook loses voice, Missouri loses to Ole Miss

Alec Lewis • February 4, 2016

William Cook lost his voice echoing a former Black Eyed Peas hit song on Wednesday night. Yet, he insists he learned the term “hands up” playing basketball as a “youngin.” Missouri’s basketball...

Keys to success for Missouri men’s basketball against Ole Miss

Tyler Kraft • February 3, 2016

The Missouri men’s basketball team faces Ole Miss (13-8, 3-5 SEC) in the final game of its two-game home stretch on Wednesday night at Mizzou Arena. The Tigers (8-13, 1-7 SEC) are also looking to put...

Missouri basketball falls to Ole Miss 76-73, loses seventh straight

Alec Lewis • February 3, 2016

Kevin Puryear flushed a dunk to open Wednesday night’s game against Ole Miss, but it was Missouri’s 3-point performance that kept the Tigers in the game. In front of 4,734 fans, the lowest number...

Missouri wrestlers not losing focus in ‘dark days’ of January and February

Anne Rogers • February 2, 2016

Some days, when junior Willie Miklus walks into the Missouri wrestling room, he questions why he’s even doing it. But, other days, Missouri’s 184-pound starter knows exactly why he is there and would...