COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Although losing is never an easy thing, the Mizzou women’s basketball team is intent on making it worth it by using the first loss of the Kellie Harper era to highlight where the team stills need to grow the most. On Saturday, the Tigers fell to 3-1 on the season in a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou Tigers women’s basketball team is looking to get back into the win column after losing a close game to Kansas on Saturday in Kansas City. The women now turn their attention to Southern Illinois, which comes to Mizzou Arena for a 6:30 p.m. tipoff on Tuesday. Watch a news conference
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Women’s Basketball has suffered its first loss under head coach Kellie Harper. The Tigers (3-1) flirted with a comeback against Kansas (4-0) but couldn’t complete it, leading to a 82-77 defeat in the first regular season meeting between the two rivals since 2012. You can watch the full postgame press
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Kellie Harper’s first recruiting class as Mizzou’s head coach is complete. Coach Harper inked five prospects on National Signing Day, headlined by three top-100 recruits listed in ESPN and On3’s rankings. MU’s 2026 class, which includes Natalya Hodge, Khloe Ford, Jada Maples, Cecilie Brandimore and Ellie Mueller, is also nationally-ranked. You can
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team remained unbeaten to open up the Kellie Harper era in Columbia. The Tigers hammered Arkansas State 97-75 to improve to 3-0 on the season. You can watch the full postgame press conference with Coach Harper and players in the video player below. MU’s 97 points is the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team is undefeated to start the Kellie Harper era in Columbia. The Tigers have won back-to-back games against Central Arkansas and Tulane to open up a new chapter of MU women’s hoops, 2-0. However, those wins came on the heels of a challenge from their first-year head coach.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Tigers women’s basketball team is 2-0 as they get ready for a game at home Tuesday. The women will host Arkansas State at Mizzou Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and the game will stream on SEC Network+. Watch a news conference about preparation for the game here.
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NEW ORLEANS, La. (KMIZ) Mizzou Women’s Basketball has passed its first road test under head coach Kellie Harper. The Tigers (2-0) maintained their flawless start to the Coach Harper era, earning a 77-69 win over Tulane (1-1) behind a season-best 27 points from Grace Slaughter. Despite falling into a five-point deficit to start Thursday’s showdown,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team survived a close game against Central Arkansas, on Monday night, to open up head coach Kellie Harper’s first season with a victory. A couple of clutch buckets down the stretch from transfers Chloe Sotell and Jayla Smith led to a 78-71 win at the Arena. The Tigers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Ahead of Monday’s season opener, Mizzou women’s basketball announced that Rock Bridge alum Averi Kroenke will miss the entire 2025-26 season due to a lower-body injury. The redshirt junior has averaged 2.0 points and 1.8 assists over the course of her career, as the team said she will begin recovery immediately to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Students spoke and Mizzou Athletics listened. Following a social media outcry over the new configuration of the student section out at Mizzou Arena, Tiger Athletics announced that it made some changes, ahead of Monday’s women’s basketball opener. You might remember that in the weeks leading up to the season, Athletic Director Laird
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Women’s Basketball is represented on the 2026 Cheryl Miller Award Preseason Top-20. On Wednesday, Grace Slaughter was tabbed to the Cheryl Miller ‘Small Forward of the Year’ watch list, which honors the best small forwards in women’s college basketball. Texas forward Madison Booker has won the award in back-to-back years. Slaughter,
Continue Reading 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) 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) 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 stage is now set for Kellie Harper’s debut season as the head coach of Mizzou women’s basketball. On Wednesday, the Southeastern Conference released the full schedule for the 2025-26 season, complete with competition dates, tip-off times, and TV designations. Coach Harper and her squad will play on SEC Network eight times
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) On Friday night, Mizzou Athletics welcomed a loaded class of six new members into its Hall of Fame. The Tiger legends were officially enshrined into the Hall in a ceremony on Friday night and will conclude their weekend by being honored on the field during Mizzou football’s game against Louisiana at Memorial
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) First-year Mizzou women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper now knows which conference foes she will be facing in her first year at the helm in Columbia. On Tuesday, the Southeastern Conference released the full slate for the 2025-25 campaign. In total, the Tigers will face 10 NCAA Tournament teams from one season ago.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Just when you thought Mizzou women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper had put the final touches on her roster for the 2025-26 season, she made one more addition, on Monday. The first-year leader of the Tigers brought on her seventh transfer of the offseason. Reka Toman, a forward from Hungary, is coming to
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