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,
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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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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper is continuing to build up her first recruiting class as the leader of the Tigers. On Thursday, Coach Harper locked down a commitment from one of the best prospects in the state of Iowa, as 6-foot-3 forward Ellie Muller pledged to MU’s class of 2026. She
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on Mizzou women’s basketball star Grace Slaughter in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can find a full transcript of the interview below. You can also watch the full conversation on ABC 17 SportsZone at 10:30 on KMIZ. NATHALIE JONES: Welcome back everyone, it
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper made the first addition to her 2026 recruiting class, on Monday night, as forward Cecilie Brandimore committed to the Tigers. The 6-foot-4 prospect picked Harper and company, after receiving an offer in May, over other offers from Minnesota, Louisiana Tech, Pepperdine, UT Martin and a slew
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Four seasons after one of the fiercest rivalries in college basketball returned to the hardwood on the men’s side, it is being renewed for the women, as well. On Tuesday, Mizzou Athletics announced that Mizzou women’s hoops will face rival Kansas at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City on Saturday, November 15.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Women’s Basketball has learned its league opponents and locations for the upcoming campaign. On Tuesday, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) announced all 16 matchups of head coach Kellie Harper’s debut season with the Tigers. The format of the 2025-26 conference schedule is consistent with last year’s layout. Mizzou will play every team
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Women’s Basketball has added a young talent to its veteran-led roster. Pepperdine transfer Chloe Sotell announced her commitment to head coach Kellie Harper and her staff on Monday afternoon, per a post on her Instagram page. She is just the third underclassman on Mizzou’s current 12-player roster. The 6-foot guard showed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Even as the dog days of summer are approaching, there seems to be a different energy within the walls of Mizzou Arena, as a new era will begin in a little more than five months time. First-year Mizzou women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper is in the midst of preparing for her debut
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Women’s Basketball has inked its fifth official addition to its 2025-26 roster. Rutgers transfer Lisa Thompson signed with head coach Kellie Harper and her staff on Friday afternoon, following two seasons with the Scarlet Knights. The 5-foot-9 guard saw significant playing time in both her freshman and sophomore campaigns, appearing in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou women’s basketball coach Kellie Harper is not slowing down, when it comes to building her first roster in Columbia. On Tuesday night, she officially made her fifth addition from the transfer portal since being hired in mid-March. Former Purdue guard Jayla Smith announced that she will be the newest member of
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