COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team has found its newest addition in veteran NFL coach Steve Wilks. #NewZOU pic.twitter.com/7VYClLGG1N— Eliah Drinkwitz (@CoachDrinkwitz) January 21, 2021 “Steve has a strong reputation as a man of character and a leader of men. His experiences both as an NFL head coach and defensive coordinator are exactly what
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou defensive line coach Brick Haley is leaving the program, according to PowerMizzou.com and others reports. A Mizzou spokesperson would not comment on those reports. Haley came to Columbia ahead of the 2017 season. Head coach Eli Drinkwitz kept him on staff after Barry Odom was fired in 2019. Drinkwitz now has
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Mizzou big man Jeremiah Tilmon scored a game-high 19 points in the Tigers 81-70 win over South Carolina. The senior also brought down 10 rebounds. Watch: A well deserved ovation from the crowd as #Mizzou big man Jeremiah Tilmon checked out of the game with 19 points and 10 rebounds. We'll have
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team’s fourth quarter comeback came up short on Monday night. LSU beat the Tigers 66-64. The Tigers outscored LSU 27-14 in the final 10 minutes, but it was not enough to win the game. MU is now 5-4 on the season and 1-3 in SEC play. “I’m proud
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The Mizzou men’s basketball team will host South Carolina on Tuesday at 6 p.m. You can hear from the Mizzou guard Dru Smith ahead of the matchup in the video player above. We also spoke with Mizzou standouts Drew Buggs and Kobe Brown to preview the Tigers game against the Gamecocks. You can watch those
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AMES, Iowa (KMIZ) The No. 9 Mizzou wrestling team improved to 7-0 on the season after beating two Top 20 teams on Sunday afternoon. The Tigers beat No. 10 Iowa State, 31-7, and No. 20 Northern Iowa, 34-6. “We wrestled two really good teams and we won a lot of tight matches,” Head coach Brian
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team improved to 8-2 with a 68-52 win over Texas A&M on Saturday. Jeremiah Tilmon put an exclamation point on the victory for the Tigers, as he finished the day with a team-high 14 points and 10 rebounds. Most notably, the senior big only put up one foul
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The Mizzou women’s basketball team will host LSU on Monday at 6 p.m. in the annual ‘We Back Pat’ game. The Tigers are coming off their first SEC win of the season this past Thursday. MU beat Ole Miss on the road, 86-77, to improve to 5-3 overall and 1-2 in the conference. “I definitely
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The No. 14 Mizzou gymnastics team almost upset the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide on Friday night, but just narrowly missed out. Alabama took down Mizzou 195.775 to 195.750. It was a close matchup, as the two squads were almost never separated by more than a point throughout the entire meet. Mizzou’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team remained undefeated against the Ole Miss Rebels in the SEC, with a 86-77 win on Thursday night. Aijha Blackwell looked strong in the first half, bringing in double-digit points just minutes into the game. However, Hayley Frank dominated the second half for the Tigers. The sophomore finished
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will play its first game in more than a week on Saturday, as it travels to College Station to meet the Texas A&M Aggies. The group has been dealing with COVID-19 since it postponed its matchup with LSU on Jan. 8. Cuonzo Matin said there are no
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The No. 17 Mizzou men’s basketball team returned to practice on Wednesday after almost a week in quarantine. A Mizzou spokesperson said there are no new COVID-19 cases as of now. That means MU is on track to play its next scheduled game on Saturday. The Tigers will travel to College Station
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former assistant coach for the University of Missouri football team claims the school still owes him money following his departure. Derek Dooley filed a lawsuit in Boone County claiming the university must still pay him a year’s worth of his salary under the terms of his contract. The university hired Dooley
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ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Ben Frederickson in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the entire interview in the video player above.
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Auburn women’s basketball team postponed its scheduled matchup with Mizzou due to positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing. The Tigers were set to tip off at 2 P.M. at Auburn on Sunday. Robin Pingeton’s group will return to action on Thursday, Jan. 14, when they make the trip to Ole Miss
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will not return to action on Tuesday night against Vanderbilt, due to COVID-19. This all comes after the team postponed its Saturday matchup with LSU due to multiple positive cases. Cuonzo Martin’s team has not been participating in any team activities, but expects to be able to
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The No. 10 Mizzou wrestling team dominated No. 21 Central Michigan in dual one of a round-robin bout at the Hearnes Center. The Tigers didn’t start off as they would have liked, with Central Michigan’s Drew Hildebrandt taking down Connor Brown in the first match of the day, however, the team bounced
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COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ) The Mizzou men’s basketball team will not host LSU on Saturday, due positive COVID-19 tests within MU’s program. The Southeastern Conference said that Mizzou conducted contact tracing, which resulted in mandatory quarantines. The program added that it will reevaluate whether or not it can meet Vanderbilt and Texas A&M at a later
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Ryan Walters is reportedly leaving Mizzou to join the Illinois football coaching staff, according to Football Scoop and other outlets. He will be the new defensive coordinator under the Fighting Illini’s first year head coach Bret Bielema. Ryan Walters is reportedly heading to Illinois – according to this ⬇️ https://t.co/aDX7MX5iQz— Andrew Kauffman
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