COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Steve Wilks met with the local reporters on Monday for the first time since taking over as Mizzou’s defensive coordinator. Watch: #Mizzou DC Steve Wilks says his relationship with Coach Drinkwitz started when Drink was at App State. A year later after this season – Wilks got a text from Drinkwitz, and
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) It was a close match up until the very end, however, the Mizzou women’s basketball team could not pull out an upset over No. 8 Texas A&M Aggies on Sunday. Robin Pingeton’s group led throughout the majority of the first quarter, but the Aggies did take over with a 38-30 lead at
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) Mizzou gymnastics standout Adalayna Hufendiek did not go too far from home for college, but she is a long way from where she started. The Rock Bridge alum is in her second season with the Tigers, but her first season actually competing. In her senior year of high school Hufendiek suffered an
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ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on Mizzou volleyball coach Josh Taylor in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team took round two over the Tennessee Volunteers on Saturday night in a 73-64 victory. Xavier Pinson led the charge for the Tigers, finishing with 27 points and four rebounds. Mizzou narrowly outshot Tennessee, going 43 percent from the field. You can watch full press conference with Mizzou
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The No.19 Mizzou men’s basketball team will make the trip to Knoxville, Tennessee for a rematch with No. 6 Tennessee on Saturday. The game will tip off at 7:30 P.M. at Thompson-Boling Arena. The last time the two teams met, the Tigers fell by 20 points in the SEC opener, going just
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team has found its newest addition in veteran NFL coach Steve Wilks. #NewZOU pic.twitter.com/7VYClLGG1N— Eliah Drinkwitz (@CoachDrinkwitz) January 21, 2021 “Steve has a strong reputation as a man of character and a leader of men. His experiences both as an NFL head coach and defensive coordinator are exactly what
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou defensive line coach Brick Haley is leaving the program, according to PowerMizzou.com and others reports. A Mizzou spokesperson would not comment on those reports. Haley came to Columbia ahead of the 2017 season. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz kept him on staff after Barry Odom was fired in 2019. Drinkwitz now has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou big man Jeremiah Tilmon scored a game-high 19 points in the Tigers 81-70 win over South Carolina. The senior also brought down 10 rebounds. Watch: A well deserved ovation from the crowd as #Mizzou big man Jeremiah Tilmon checked out of the game with 19 points and 10 rebounds. We'll have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team’s fourth quarter comeback came up short on Monday night. LSU beat the Tigers 66-64. The Tigers outscored LSU 27-14 in the final 10 minutes, but it was not enough to win the game. MU is now 5-4 on the season and 1-3 in SEC play. “I’m proud
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The Mizzou men’s basketball team will host South Carolina on Tuesday at 6 p.m. You can hear from the Mizzou guard Dru Smith ahead of the matchup in the video player above. We also spoke with Mizzou standouts Drew Buggs and Kobe Brown to preview the Tigers game against the Gamecocks. You can watch those
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AMES, Iowa (KMIZ) The No. 9 Mizzou wrestling team improved to 7-0 on the season after beating two Top 20 teams on Sunday afternoon. The Tigers beat No. 10 Iowa State, 31-7, and No. 20 Northern Iowa, 34-6. “We wrestled two really good teams and we won a lot of tight matches,” Head coach Brian
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team improved to 8-2 with a 68-52 win over Texas A&M on Saturday. Jeremiah Tilmon put an exclamation point on the victory for the Tigers, as he finished the day with a team-high 14 points and 10 rebounds. Most notably, the senior big only put up one foul
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The Mizzou women’s basketball team will host LSU on Monday at 6 p.m. in the annual ‘We Back Pat’ game. The Tigers are coming off their first SEC win of the season this past Thursday. MU beat Ole Miss on the road, 86-77, to improve to 5-3 overall and 1-2 in the conference. “I definitely
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The No. 14 Mizzou gymnastics team almost upset the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide on Friday night, but just narrowly missed out. Alabama took down Mizzou 195.775 to 195.750. It was a close matchup, as the two squads were almost never separated by more than a point throughout the entire meet. Mizzou’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team remained undefeated against the Ole Miss Rebels in the SEC, with a 86-77 win on Thursday night. Aijha Blackwell looked strong in the first half, bringing in double-digit points just minutes into the game. However, Hayley Frank dominated the second half for the Tigers. The sophomore finished
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will play its first game in more than a week on Saturday, as it travels to College Station to meet the Texas A&M Aggies. The group has been dealing with COVID-19 since it postponed its matchup with LSU on Jan. 8. Cuonzo Matin said there are no
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 17 Mizzou men’s basketball team returned to practice on Wednesday after almost a week in quarantine. A Mizzou spokesperson said there are no new COVID-19 cases as of now. That means MU is on track to play its next scheduled game on Saturday. The Tigers will travel to College Station
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former assistant coach for the University of Missouri football team claims the school still owes him money following his departure. Derek Dooley filed a lawsuit in Boone County claiming the university must still pay him a year’s worth of his salary under the terms of his contract. The university hired Dooley
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ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the entire interview in the video player above.
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