The Mizzou basketball team is preparing for its annual Braggin’ Rights game in St. Louis against Illinois. The Tigers will face Illinois Saturday at 12:00 p.m. Mizzou won last year’s game between the two teams, 79-63. You can watch Cuonzo Martin’s full press conference previewing the game in the media player below.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team lost 68-33 to Princeton on Wednesday night. The Tigers are now 3-9 on the season. Mizzou’s 33 points tied the fewest by an MU team in program history. MU also scored 33 points in a loss to Kansas State on the road on Feb. 10, 2010. Mizzou’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team has announced several signees on Wednesday. We will continue to update this story as MU makes things official. DB Jaylon (JC) Carlies: 6’2″, 193 lbs from Winter Garden, Fla. (West Orange HS)K Harrison Mevis: 6’0″, 200 lbs from Warsaw, Ind. (Warsaw Community HS)OL Drake Heismeyer: 6’3″, 283 lbs
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ABC 17 News interviewed new Missouri head football coach Eli Drinkwitz on national signing day.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz has retained Ryan Walters as the Tigers defensive coordinator. “Since connecting with Ryan I’ve been very impressed with his ability to lead people and connect with the players,” Drinkwitz said in a release. “I’m impressed with his work on the defensive side of the ball, I look
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Here are the local high school basketball scores from Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. BOYS HOOPS Tolton (64) Blair Oaks (66) FINAL/OT GIRLS HOOPS Salisbury (66) Knox County (36) FINAL Moberly (47) Hannibal (45) FINAL
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team will host Princeton on Wednesday at 7 p.m. We spoke with head coach Robin Pingeton and the Tigers on Tuesday to preview the matchup. Coach Pingeton said the team has really struggled with turnovers, transition defense and rebounding this season. “Those are effort based things. We’ve got
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ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman introduces two of the next star basketball players in Mid-Missouri, Nautica Washington and Boo Anderson.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Mark Smith scored a season-high 23 points to lead Missouri to a 64-48 victory over Southern Illinois on Sunday. Smith led the Southeastern Conference in 3-point accuracy last year, shooting 45%. He had been hit-or-miss this season, entering Sunday’s game making 35.1% of his 3s, but he made 7 of 9
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Despite a strong performance against a top-25 team on the road, the Mizzou women’s basketball team lost to (20) Missouri State, 79-72. With the loss, the Tigers fall to 3-8 on the season and have lost two straight games. Amber Smith led the Tigers with 22 points on the night and added seven rebounds. The
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes threw for 340 yards and two touchdowns, Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce were on the receiving end of many of his biggest throws, and the AFC West champion Kansas City Chiefs romped to a 23-3 victory over the Denver Broncos at snowy Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. Watch: #Mizzou
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Here is a look at your local highlights and scores for Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. The Boonville boys basketball team won the Centralia Tournament over Centralia, 57-48. Tipton girls basketball beat Capital City, 53-20. California girls basketball beat South Callaway, 49-40. St. Elizabeth girls basketball beat California, 76-46. Hermann girls basketball beat Blair Oaks, 41-39.
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The University of Missouri sold alcohol at football games for the first time in 2019.
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Here is a look at your local highlights and scores for Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. The Blair Oaks boys basketball team beat Hickman, 69-64. Southern Boone boys basketball beat Fatima, 57-51. Southern Boone girls basketball beat Fatima, 45-29. Jefferson City girls basketball beat Rogers Heritage, 49-11. South Callaway boys basketball beat New Bloomfield, 67-33.
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After 22 years with athletics at Columbia Public Schools, CPS Director of Athletics Bruce Whitesides tells ABC 17 he will retire. Whitesides said, “I couldn’t be more happy. Who else gets to watch games and get paid for it you know?” Rock Bridge Athletic Director David Egan is set to take over the position following
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Former Mizzou football coach Barry Odom will be the next defensive coordinator for the Arkansas Razorbacks. New Arkansas head coach Sam Pittman spoke on the Paul Finebaum Show on SEC Network and said he hired Odom to be his defensive coordinator. Mizzou fired Odom following his last win over Mizzou, which was against Arkansas. Odom
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri men’s basketball coach Cuonzo Martin took questions from reporters Friday ahead of a home weekend matchup with Southern Illinois.
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Here are your local highlights and scores from the night as the Rock Bridge girls basketball team dominated, 81-21, over Battle. Centralia boys basketball beat Harrisburg, 60-27, in the Centralia Tournament. Salisbury beat North Callaway, 43-42, in the Centralia Tournament. Jefferson City girls basketball beat Licking, 52-36, and Jefferson City boys basketball lost to Blue
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Hear from Alex Nichols, Jayton Johnson and Marcos German as they talk about Central Methodist men’s soccer going to back-to-back.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Mizzou football star Drew Lock will return home to Kansas City this weekend. The Broncos will play the Chiefs at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Lock is 2-0 so far as a starter in the NFL. He helped lead the Broncos to wins over the Chargers and Texans the last two
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