COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team announced that guard John Tonje will miss the rest of the 2023-24 season due to a foot injury. That will start in Tuesday night’s meeting with the Alabama Crimson Tide. In a press release, head coach Dennis Gates said, “John has been hampered by an offseason foot
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team still hasn’t been able to break through in SEC play, as the Tigers lost 93-75 on the road to the Alabama Crimson Tide, on Tuesday. With the loss, MU dropped below the .500 mark for the season, 8-9 overall. MU is also now 0-4 in conference to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on PowerMizzou’s Drew King in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. The pair talked about the Tiger men’s basketball team’s rough start to SEC action, including the group’s overtime loss to South Carolina, on Saturday. “So far it kind of feels like Mizzou can either
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (KMIZ) Robin Pingeton’s crew secured its first victory of conference play in comeback fashion 65-63 over Vanderbilt on Sunday afternoon in Nashville. Mizzou improved its record to 1-3 in SEC play and is now 10-7 overall this season. You can watch the full postgame press conference with Mizzou basketball coach Robin Pingeton in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After starting SEC play 0-2, Dennis Gates’ crew was hunting for its first conference win of the season on Saturday afternoon. However, the Tigers left Mizzou Arena empty handed after South Carolina posted a 71-69 comeback win in overtime. You can watch the full postgame press conference with Gates and players in
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (KMIZ) Despite securing two event titles in Tuscaloosa, on Friday night, the No. 3 Mizzou gymnastics team fell short against the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide at Coleman Coliseum. The Tide topped the Tigers 197.225-196.475. It is head coach Shannon Welker and company’s first loss of 2024, as the team’s record falls to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will hope to notch the first conference win of the season in Saturday’s game against South Carolina, at Mizzou Arena. The Tigers are returning home after a tough, 90-77, loss to Kentucky at Rupp Arena, on Tuesday. Head coach Dennis Gates’ group managed to keep that one
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou tight end Tyler Stephens is returning to the Tigers for another season. Stephens announced on social media on Thursday night that he will be using another year of eligibility to play football for the Tigers in 2024. Stephens has played the past two seasons with the Tigers, appearing in 25 games.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team started off strong, but No. 1 South Carolina proved too much to handle, on Thursday. The Gamecocks remained undefeated through the 2023-24 season with a 81-57 win in Columbia West. With the loss, head coach Robin Pingeton and company drop to 9-7 on the season and 0-3
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PALO ALTO, Calif. (KMIZ) No. 2 Mizzou Wrestling posted a dominating 39-0 shutout victory over No. 18 Stanford to win its seventh dual of the season. Brian Smith’s crew remains undefeated after improving its record to 7-0 in duals. Tiger Style won all 10 of its bouts on Wednesday night at Maples Pavilion and recorded
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Despite getting into striking distance multiple times, the Mizzou men’s basketball team could not pull off an upset in Lexington, on Tuesday. The No. 6 Kentucky Wildcats topped MU 90-77. With the loss, head coach Dennis Gates and company fell to 8-7 on the season and 0-2 in SEC play. Despite trailing
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou offensive coordinator Kirby Moore couldn’t have written a better script for his first season in Columbia. In 2023, the Tigers not only scored eight more points per game than the season before, but went on to win a New Year’s Six bowl game. As a result, Moore received a contract extension
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team grabbed the No. 8 spot in the final AP Poll of the 2023 college football season, on Tuesday. It marks the program’s best finish in the poll since 2013. The Tigers jumped up one spot, from No. 9, after beating then-No. 7 Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou gymnastics team is now the highest ranked SEC team in the land, coming in a No. 3 in the Road To Nationals rankings, on Monday. The Top-3 ranking is the highest in program history. The high placement comes just days after the Tigers recorded the best season opening score in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After six years in the black and gold, Mizzou linebacker Chad Bailey declared for the 2024 NFL Draft, on Monday. With that announcement, he became the 12th Tiger player to take the next step since the season wrapped up. Bailey saw an unfortunate end to his final season in Columbia, appearing in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football’s historic, 11-win 2023 season paid off for head coach Eli Drinkwitz. On Dec. 31, just days after No. 9 MU’s Cotton Bowl win over No. 7 Ohio State, the Mizzou Athletic Department extended Coach Eli’s contract through 2028. Through details obtained by ABC 17 in an open records request, Drinkwitz
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou defensive lineman Josh Landry became the 11th Tiger football player to declare for the 2024 NFL Draft, on Monday. Landry spent two seasons in Columbia, after transferring from Baylor ahead of the 2022 season. He saw action in every game of his MU career, including four starts in 2023. In his
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones brought on the Columbia Tribune’s sports editor Chris Kwiecinski in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full conversation in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team remained winless in conference play, on Sunday, with a 79-64 loss to Alabama at home. With that loss, the Tigers dropped to 9-6 on the season. You can watch the full postgame press conference with head coach Robin Pingeton and players in the video player below. https://youtu.be/FdYhmz6JVUM
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team is looking for a new defensive coordinator, after former DC Blake Baker left his post for the same job at LSU, on Friday. That news came just 15 days after he had signed a contract extension with MU. On social media, head coach Eli Drinkwitz said to Baker,
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