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) Mizzou men’s basketball is ready to make its Mizzou Arena debut for the 2025-26 season. After taking a victory in the first game of the season against Howard, the Tigers will host Southeast Missouri State on Friday for their first home game of the year. In the first road trip, head coach
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The bye week came at the perfect time for No. 19 Mizzou football, as head coach Eli Drinkwitz and company had to adjust to a big change, following the loss to Vanderbilt on Oct. 25. In that narrow loss to the Top-10 Commodores, the Tigers suffered an even more heartbreaking loss than
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After a 6-2 start to the season, the Mizzou football team debuted at No. 22 in the first College Football Playoff ranking of the 2025 season, on Tuesday night. The College Football Playoff rankings are really the only ones that truly matter, once they first get released about midway through the year.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones spoke with the Mike Kelly, the voice of the Missouri Tigers, ahead of the Mizzou, Texas A&M edition of Tiger Talk out at Faurot Field. You can watch the full conversation with Mike Kelly in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 19 Mizzou Tigers are coming off a bye week and getting ready to jump back into SEC play against Texas A&M. The game kicks off at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Faurot Field. Watch a news conference about preparation for the game here.
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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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WASHINGTON, D.C. (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team started a highly-anticipated season off with a win, on Monday, as the Tigers handled business, 88-67, on the road at Howard. Head coach Dennis Gates and company showed off their depth against the Bison. The Tigers had just as much production off the bench, as they did
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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) ABC 17 Sports Director Nathalie Jones sat down Mizzou men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the full interview on SportsZone at 10:30 on KMIZ. The pair previewed Coach Gates’ fourth season in Columbia, breaking down new additions, returning talent and where he feels
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The 2025-26 season opened on Sunday for the Missouri wrestling team at the Hearnes Center. The Tigers competed in the Missouri Duals, where they picked up two shutout wins and added another victory by more than 30 points to start the season 3-0. For the first time in program history, Mizzou squared
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou Gymnastics hosted an open intrasquad meet spread across two days. Uneven bars and vault took place on Friday, with balance beam and floor routines being held on Saturday. This was the first time head coach Shannon Welker has shown off his squad since their third-place finish at the national championships in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou cross country opened the postseason in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the SEC Championships, where both No. 22 men’s and No. 23 women’s teams finished in fifth place. For the men, it was their second consecutive season slotting in at No. 5, totaling 145 points. 12 points separated the second and fifth teams,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) For the second-straight season, the Mizzou men’s basketball team will tip off a brand new season on the road. The Tigers are set for a clash with Howard University in our nation’s capitol on Monday, Nov. 3. Head coach Dennis Gates said there’s quite a few advantages to starting off the year
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) As Mizzou men’s basketball is set to debut a new-look roster when the 2025-26 campaign opens up on Monday, Nov. 3, head coach Dennis Gates and company will, undoubtedly, lean on their returning talent to pave the way. The Tigers will enter Coach Gates’ fourth season in Columbia with three returning starters
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou quarterback Beau Pribula and tight end Brett Norfleet’s timelines to return remain unclear. On Wednesday, MU head coach Eli Drinkwitz provided the latest information on Pribula and Norfleet’s statuses during the weekly SEC Football Coaches Teleconference, following their respective injuries in the team’s seven-point loss to Vanderbilt. Pribula exited Saturday’s game
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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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