COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Tigers fans’ first glimpse at the new era of women’s basketball may not have gone as expected. Missouri suffered a 90-84 overtime loss Tuesday night in an exhibition game against the Maryville Saints at Mizzou Arena, marking the unofficial start to new head coach Kellie Harper’s tenure with the program. You can
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones sat down Mizzou women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The pair previewed Harper’s first season at the helm in Columbia. You can find a full transcript of the interview below. Be sure to also watch the full conversation on SportsZone
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As the No. 19 Mizzou football team is set to enter the back half of the 2025 season, the group is left with some questions to answer. That makes it the perfect time for the second bye week of the season, as the Tigers will get a week to regroup following a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) MU has closed out the 2025 regular season. Mizzou soccer fought back against Auburn for a 1-1 draw in their final contest of the year. Haley Chambliss picked up the lone score for the Columbia Tigers late in the second half. Auburn struck first, taking the lead in the 20th minute. Despite
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Volleyball took down Georgia 3-1 for its sixth straight win, heading into the Tennessee road trip. The Tigers improved to 15-7 with a win at the Hearnes Center against the Bulldogs on Sunday. MU held the Bulldogs to a .167 hitting percentage across the match. Senior Caylen Alexander led the team
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Football took a slight tumble in the Associated Press (AP) Poll. The Tigers (6-2) slipped to No. 19 in the newest rankings, following its seven-point loss to Vanderbilt (7-1) at FirstBank Stadium. Despite the four-spot slide, MU has been ranked in the top-20 of the poll in six straight weeks. Collectively,
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (KMIZ) No. 15 Mizzou (6-2) suffered more than just a loss at FirstBank Stadium. Quarterback Beau Pribula was forced to leave Saturday’s 17-10 defeat at No. 10 Vanderbilt (7-1) with an ankle injury. The Penn State transfer was taken to the locker room in a wheelchair with an air cast on his leg.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Eli Drinkwitz picked up another commit for next season’s squad. Ahmod Billins announced his decision to play for the Tigers in the coming fall on Saturday. The 6-foot-2 cornerback is the 16th three-star recruit that Mizzou has picked up, according to 247 Sports. He’s the 39th-ranked player in the state of Alabama
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (KMIZ) All the hoopla and national attention may be going the way of the No. 10 Vanderbilt Commodores, leading up to head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company’s Top-15 showdown in Nashville on Saturday, however, some of the biggest names in college football are telling fans not to look past Mizzou. The Music City
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Arena will be bringing fans closer to the action this college basketball season. MU is implementing new courtside seating and expanding the venue’s student section for the 2025-26 campaigns, per an announcement from the athletics department. The changes were made, following Southeastern Conference (SEC) approval to allow schools to expand their
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou quarterback Beau Pribula has made another midseason watchlist. On Thursday, Pribula was named to the Manning Award midseason watchlist, which recognizes the top quarterback in the country as voted on by the All State Sugar Bowl committee. The finalists for this list will be determined by a selection of media members
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Football’s leader is in contention for another top coaching honor. On Wednesday, head coach Eli Drinkwitz earned a spot on the 2025 Dodd Trophy midseason watch list, college football’s most coveted national coaching award. Coach Drinkwitz was also named to the Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant Coach of the Year watch list, just
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Mizzou football has another big test this weekend on the road. The No. 15 Tigers will travel to Nashville to face the No. 10 Vanderbilt Commodores. Vanderbilt is usually an also-ran in SEC football, but this year the Commodores have rolled to 6-1 with an explosive offense led by quarterback Diego Pavia. This is the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team will begin a new era in less than two weeks. First-year head coach Kellie Harper and her team will open up the the 2025-26 schedule on Monday, Nov. 3 against Central Arkansas at Mizzou Arena. However, the unofficial start will come on Tuesday, Oct. 28, when Maryville
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The resurgence of No. 10 Vanderbilt football is a storyline that has swept the college football world in 2025, as the Commodores are off to their best seven-game start since the 1950s. In fact, it’s such a big story that the traveling pregame show, ‘College GameDay,’ is bringing its party to the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones spoke with the Mike Kelly, the voice of the Missouri Tigers, ahead of the Mizzou, Vanderbilt edition of Tiger Talk out at Harpo’s. You can watch the full conversation with Mike Kelly in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Tigers are getting ready for their second top-15 matchup of the year. The 6-1 Tigers, ranked No. 15 in this week’s AP Top 25 poll, will travel to Nashville this weekend to face Vanderbilt. The Commodores, usually an also-ran in the SEC, have jumped to No. 10 in the poll
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou star Zion Young isn’t just earning national attention for the energy he brought to the overtime coin flip versus Auburn, on Saturday. The defensive end also earned a nod from the conference, on Monday, as he was tabbed as the SEC Co-Defensive Lineman of the Week. That recognition came after Young
Continue Reading AUBURN, Ala. (KMIZ) You can count on one thing when Mizzou and Auburn meet on the football field: an absolute rollercoaster ride. The 2025 edition of the battle of the Tigers was no exception, as head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company found a way to win in a double-overtime thriller. “What a gutsy win,” Drinkwitz
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou volleyball team is hitting its stride in Southeastern Conference action, as the team notched its third-straight conference win with a gritty victory over LSU, on Sunday afternoon. The win didn’t come easy for head coach Dawn Sullivan and her team. In fact, when the match was tied at one set
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