KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou men’s basketball star Tamar Bates did not have to wait long after the NBA Draft wrapped up to find out his destination. Surrounded by family at watch party in downtown Kansas City, Bates picked up the phone and learned he is set to sign a two-way contract with the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Although former Mizzou men’s basketball standout Caleb Grill didn’t hear his name called in the 2025 NBA Draft, he did find a landing spot. Within an hour after the end of the draft, Mizzou Athletics announced that Grill had signed a two-way contract with the Chicago Bulls. The Wichita, Kansas native will
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Over the years, former Mizzou men’s basketball star Tamar Bates has taken and made a great deal of difficult shots. Whether it was clutch buckets on his way to 29 points in a court-storming win over the No. 1 team in the nation or the routine shots he mastered from the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Men’s Basketball will face a 2025 NCAA Tournament team in 19 of its 31 games this season. The Tigers have announced the entirety of their upcoming non-conference slate and their opponents for Southeastern Conference (SEC) season. During their 31-game regular season, MU will host 10 teams who appeared in last year’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Men’s Basketball has introduced its first general manager in program history. Tim Fuller, who was officially named the team’s general manager on June 2, met with the media on Saturday afternoon to detail the vision that the program has for the new position and his journey back to the university. The
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With the NBA Draft about two weeks away, former Mizzou star Caleb Grill is continuing to grind through the pre-draft process, in hopes of hearing his name called in Brooklyn, New York. The Kansas native put his skills on display in both the Portsmouth Invitational and G-League Elite Camp, before beginning individual
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Just days after the Mizzou men’s basketball team named veteran coach Tim Fuller the first general manager in program history, ABC 17 obtained his contract via records request. In the first-of-its-kind position at MU, Fuller is set to start at a $100,000 salary. The contract states that that will boost to $250,000
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team officially jumped onto a trend sweeping the college sports world, on Monday morning: hiring a general manager. MU Athletics announced that coaching veteran Tim Fuller will be the first general manager in program history. He will come to Columbia with more than 20 years of coaching experience,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Eli Hoff, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Mizzou Athletics beat writer, in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their full conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou star Tamar Bates didn’t spend his entire collegiate career in Missouri, but he sure is taking the lessons he learned from two years under head coach Dennis Gates into the NBA Draft process. About one month and some change away from the start of the NBA Draft in Brooklyn, New
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Men’s Basketball has unveiled the opponent, date and location of its upcoming season debut. The Tigers announced that the team will be traveling to Washington D.C. to face Howard University on Nov. 3 to begin the 2025-26 campaign. The game’s tipoff time is still to be determined. MU’s visit to our
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones caught up with former Mizzou men’s basketball star Laurence Bowers in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch their conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates continues to fill out the holes in his coaching staff. On Saturday afternoon, a source told ABC 17 Sports that MU is set to hire former University of South Florida assistant coach Griffin McHone as the program’s new director of operations. The hire comes after Mizzou’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A strong performance at the NBA’s G League Elite Camp has earned former Mizzou star Tamar Bates an invite to the NBA Draft Combine up in Chicago. The Combine already began on Sunday and will run through May 18, before the 2025 NBA Draft is held in New York on Wednesday, June
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou assistant coach David ‘Dickey’ Nutt will return to his role as an assistant coach for Tiger men’s basketball in the 2025-26 campaign, after being cancer last year. Nutt joined head coach Dennis Gates’ staff in April 2022 as an assistant. After spending a season on the sidelines in Columbia, he was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Men’s Basketball has landed its fifth transfer portal addition of the offseason. On Sunday night, head coach Dennis Gates and his staff received a commitment from West Virginia transfer Jayden Stone, following his redshirt season with the Mountaineers. The 2025-26 campaign will be his final year of eligibility. The 6-foot-4, 185-pound
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou nation already knew that Tiger guard Tamar Bates would not be back for another season in the black and gold, after he used up his final year of eligibility in the 2024-25 campaign. But, on Tuesday night, the Kansas City native made it official: he is declaring for the 2025 NBA
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A basketball prospect for the University of Missouri has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a campus visit in September. Keiner Asprilla, 18, was charged in Boone County as an adult on Tuesday with first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and second-degree kidnapping. A petition was filed in juvenile court on Jan.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sources tell ABC 17 that Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates is set to fill the first of two open assistant coaching positions on his staff. Duquesne assistant coach Steve Wright will be joining the Tiger men’s hoops staff, following two years with the Dukes. He has made stops at the junior
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou men’s basketball is getting in on a trend that’s growing more and more in popularity across college sports: hiring a general manager. The University posted a job listing, seeking a general manager for the men’s basketball team. The posting said that Mizzou is looking for someone with previous experience working in
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