COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou baseball team will open up its season in just seven days on Friday, Feb. 18 against Nicholls State down in Louisiana. The Tigers will look to make 2022 their bounce-back year, after a 15-36 ending to the season in 2021. “Our big focus of the get was to kind of
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team could not get an upset done on the road against the No. 13 Tennessee Volunteers on Thursday. The Lady Vols took down the Tigers 76-62. Lauren Hansen finished with a game-high 22 points for Mizzou. It is the fourth time this season that junior has had a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 11 Mizzou softball team will take to the field for the first time in 257 days on Feb. 11, as the Tigers make the trip down to Leesburg, Florida for the Northern Lights Invitational. https://youtu.be/w-ynPbI1FwA Head coach Larissa Anderson and company will open up the season in a matchup against
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team will need to find a new defensive coordinator for the 2022 season, as former coordinator Steve Wilks accepted a job with the Carolina Panthers on Wednesday. Wilks will serve as the Panthers’ defensive pass game coordinator and secondary coach. It will not be his first trip to Charlotte
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team lost to Vanderbilt 70-62 on Tuesday night. MU trailed by as many as 11 points in the second half, but the Tigers came back to take a 58-57 lead with 4:52 to go in the game. Shortly after – Kobe Brown committed his fourth foul and went
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) There Mizzou softball players earned a spot on the All-SEC preseason team on Monday afternoon. Hatti Moore, Brooke Wilmes and Jenna Laird were three of the 21 players selected by the league head coaches. MU and Florida were the only two teams with three players on the list. Here’s a link to
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame inducted its 2022 class on Sunday night. The class was headlined by Chiefs standout Willie Roaf and Cardinals great Matt Holliday. The Helias boys golf program was also inducted into the hall of fame. The Crusaders have won four state championships (1958, 1983, 1993, 1994) and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on Mizzou baseball coach Steve Bieser in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. Bieser is entering his sixth season as the Tigers head coach. MU will open up the season against Nicholls State on Feb. 18 in Thibodaux, La.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 12 Mizzou wrestling team came back from an early deficit to knock off No. 10 Oklahoma State 21-20 on Sunday afternoon. The Tigers began the dual down 12-0, but MU fought back to beat the Cowboys. https://youtu.be/EusYMnDSqtI The Tigers are now 10-3 overall and 8-1 in the Big 12. Up
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 11 Mizzou softball team hosted the annual black and gold scrimmage in front of a decent sized crowd at Devine Pavilion on Saturday afternoon. You can watch highlights from the preseason scrimmage in the video player above. MU will open up the regular season at the Northern Lights Invitational in
Continue Reading COLLEGE STATION, Texas. (KMIZ) Despite a late push from Texas A&M, the Mizzou men’s basketball team hung on for the 70-66 win to snap a four-game losing streak. https://youtu.be/g_sWVUcUz7M Last time MU and the Aggies met in Columbia, head coach Buzz Williams’ team put up a late comeback to beat the Tigers by three points,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local scores from Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. MIAA MEN’S BASKETBALL Pittsburgh State (87) Lincoln University (98) FINAL HS GIRLS BASKETBALL St. Michael the Archangel (33) Jefferson City (66) FINAL Ozark (61) Blair Oaks (51) FINAL Rock Bridge (45)
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 11 Mizzou gymnastics team fell in its first home conference meet of the season against No. 4 Florida, but the Tigers did manage to set a new program record with 197.650 points. The Gators took the meet over Mizzou 197.775 to 197.650. MU won two overall events on Friday night.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team put the finishing touches on its historic 2022 recruiting class on National Signing Day. With those final additions, MU’s class ranks No. 15 in the nation, which is the highest a class has been ranked in program history. For reference, 2021 was also a landmark class for Coach
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Tolton wrestling star Brant Whitaker has transferred to Mizzou. He was one of three additions MU announced on Thursday. Cole Gripka and Joe Mylin also signed with the Tigers. Whitaker was a three-time state champion in high school. He won his first state title at Boonville as a sophomore. He went
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Despite taking a two-point deficit into halftime, the Mizzou women’s basketball out-toughed Texas A&M in a 78-69 win on Sunday evening. Junior Hayley Frank led all scorers with 28 points, along with eight rebounds and two assists. Up next – the Tigers will hit the road to Mississippi State on Jan. 27.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Despite winning the highest ranked matchup of the dual, No. 9 Mizzou did fall to No. 23 South Dakota State on Saturday afternoon. No. 9 Alan Hart moved to 2-0 on the season against South Dakota State’s Clay Carlson, as Hart won by a 4-2 decision. MU did manage to pick up
Continue Reading TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team could not hang on for the win over Alabama on Saturday evening. The Tigers fell to the Tide 86-76. With the loss, MU fell to 8-10 overall and 2-4 in the SEC. Jarron “Boogie” Coleman led the Tigers with 17 points along with four rebounds and three
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Here are the local scores from Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. You can watch the highlights in the video player above. NAIA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Williams Baptist (75) Columbia College (88) FINAL NAIA MEN’S BASKETBALL Williams Baptist (60) Columbia College (86) FINAL HS BOYS BASKETBALL Skyline (59) Jefferson City (51) FINAL Harrisburg (85) Macon
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will be down one scholarship player for the remainder of the season, after forward Sean Durugordon announced he will be entering the transfer portal. Durugordon confirmed the decision in a Twitter post on Friday evening. The redshirt freshman has not played any minutes since Mizzou’s matchup against
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