COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on the PowerMizzou’s Jarod Hamilton in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The two broke down the action from Mizzou football’s annual spring game, which was played on Saturday afternoon at Devine Pavilion. Overall, the defense stole the show, after making big leaps during the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team fell just short of an upset against No. 11 Florida with a 4-3 loss in Gainesville on Sunday afternoon. With the loss, the Gators won the series 2-1. The Tigers started the game off with multiple lengthy at-bats, forcing Florida pitcher Elizabeth Hightower to toss 50 pitches in
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team could not stop a Cinderella story. The No. 7 seeded Tigers fell to No. 15 seeded Princeton, 78-63, on Saturday evening. MU was in the midst of its own fairy tale season, as first year head coach Dennis Gates led the team to the program’s first NCAA
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team held an indoor Spring Game on Saturday, due to the frigid temperatures in Columbia. The MU defense put on a show for the family and alumni invited to Saturday’s scrimmage. Defensive coordinator Blake Baker’s group won the day, making stop after stop against the Tiger offense. “We did
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team throttled No. 2 Tennessee in Friday’s SEC opener, 9-1, to give MU the 1-0 lead in the three-game, weekend series. The bats heated up quickly for the Tigers. Dalton Bargo, Helias alum Trevor Austin and Hank Zeisler all brought in runners in a four-run first inning. Both Bargo
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team took down Illinois State in the first round of the WNIT, 61-51, at Mizzou Arena. The Redbirds kept it close with the Tigers until the end, but a scoring attack led by Hayley Frank and Sara Rose-Smith pushed MU over the top. Frank ended with 15 points
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KMIZ) For the first time in 13 years, the Mizzou men’s basketball team won its first round game in the NCAA Tournament. The No. 7-seeded Tigers took down the No. 10-seeded Utah State Aggies, 76-65, in Sacramento. The Tigers will move on to meet the winner of the Arizona, Princeton game on Saturday.
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SIOUX CITY, Ia. (KMIZ) The undefeated Central Methodist women’s basketball team keeps the perfect season alive with a 52-48 win over Marian University Wednesday to advance to the NAIA Semifinals. With the win, the Eagles are now a perfect 35-0 on the year. Central Methodist was led by Leianya Massenat with 17 points and a
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COLUMBI, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou softball team got back in the win column on Tuesday in a doubleheader sweep against Illinois. The pair of wins were led by strong pitching performances from Jordan Weber and Laurin Krings. In the second game of the day, Krings tossed a complete-game shutout in the circle. She finished with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team will host Illinois State in the first round of the WNIT on Thursday night at 7 p.m. It is MU’s third-consecutive appearance in the tournament. The Tiger enter the tournament with a 17-13 overall record and a 5-10 mark in SEC action. As far as the WNIT
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) In the final AP Poll of the season, the Mizzou men’s basketball team landed at No. 23 in the nation. The ranking comes after MU made history by appearing in the program’s first ever SEC Tournament semifinals. The Tigers will tip off in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday afternoon in California. Mizzou
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An eighth inning rally lifted the Mizzou baseball team to a 5-3 win over NJIT on Sunday night. The victory also gave the Tigers the overall series win against the Highlanders. It is MU’s fourth comeback win of the season, capped by a banner weekend for the Tiger pitching staff. The group
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The NCAA Tournament Selection Committee granted the Mizzou men’s basketball team a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Tigers will head to Sacramento, Calif. to meet No. 10-seeded Utah State. MU will tip off at 12:40 CT against thee Aggies. It will be the third time in MU history that
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 23 Mizzou softball team got shutout in three straight games against No. 16 Kentucky over the weekend, as the Wildcats completed the sweep on Sunday. MU and UK played in a double-header to wrap up the series on Sunday, due to rain moving through Columbia on Saturday afternoon. The Tigers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 23 Mizzou softball team lost the first game in the series to No. 16 Kentucky, 5-0, on Friday night at the Mizzou Softball Stadium. The Wildcats held MU to just two hits in the game, as pitcher Stephanie Schoonover threw a complete-game shutout in the UK win. She improved to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Athletics announced a contract extension for first-year men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates on Friday night, just hours after MU advanced to the semifinal round of the SEC Tournament with a win over Tennessee. The extension will run through the 2028-29 season. He will see an annual salary increase to $4 million
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. The No. 4-seeded Mizzou men’s basketball team is headed to the semifinals of the SEC Tournament with a 79-71 win over No. 5-seeded Tennessee on Friday. D’Moi Hodge, Kobe Brown and DeAndre Gholston all hit double-digit scoring in the win. Hodge led the team with 26 points along with one steal. Brown was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will head into the SEC Tournament with the highest seeding in program history. As a No. 4 seed, the Tigers earned a double-bye, which puts them that much closer to the championship game. Head coach Dennis Gates said the key to going to Nashville and winning the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Southeastern Conference announced that Mizzou forward Kobe Brown was one of the best to play the game in the conference this season. The league office gave Brown First-Team All-SEC honors on Monday afternoon. He also became the first Tiger to ever win the conference’s SEC Scholar of the Year award. The
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will end regular season action with a No. 25 ranking in the AP Poll, after ending the season on a four-game winning streak. MU’s last win of the regular season came on Saturday, senior day, against Ole Miss. The Rebels took the Tigers down to the wire,
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