Missouri wrestling coach Brian Smith likes to schedule games back to back. He said it prepares the team for tournaments later in the season. Smith has work to do before his team is tournament-ready after...

The home-mat advantage for the Missouri wrestling team sits on the corner of Stadium Boulevard and Mick Deaver Memorial Drive. The Tigers practice on the fourth floor of the Hearnes Center. Yet, for the...

Freshman 157-pounder Joey Lavallee nervously stepped on the mat for the first time. He turned on music and tried not to think. He was hundreds of miles away at Central Michigan University on Jan. 18,...

The trip to Mount Pleasant, Mich., wasn’t exactly smooth after delays pushed the travel time to over 16 hours. Yet, the trip paid off after the seventh-ranked Missouri wrestling team left with a one-point...

Points were hard to come by Friday night when the No. 9 Missouri wrestling team battled Ohio on the Jesse Hall stage in its MAC opener. It was the first athletic event held in Jesse Hall. Freshman 197-pounder...

There seems to be some striking similarities between last year’s Missouri wrestling team and this year’s. Both were able to take home conference championships and qualified all 10 wrestlers for the...

The match was already clinched for Oklahoma State in the semifinals of the NWCA National Duals against the Missouri wrestling team going into the heavyweight match. And insult was added to injury when...

The Missouri wrestling program upset No. 2 Iowa and No. 5 Ohio State as the Tigers wrestled to third place in the NWCA National Duals finals this past weekend in St. Paul, Minn. The Tigers also wrestled...