At the 1977 Final Four, St. Bonaventure coach Jim Satalin was riding high. His team had just defeated Houston to win the National InvitationTournament, and the congratulations were pouring in.
Missouri held its first spring scrimmage on Saturday in Columbia, with the Tigers’ quarterback competition among the big storylines.
With Tigers coach Gary Pinkel content to let three guys battle it out for the starting quarterback job, Saturday’s scrimmage looms large.
The University of Miami, which has asked the NCAA to dismiss charges against its athletic department, has alleged tactics used by investigators during the questioning of Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith were impermissible and unethical.
Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith and his staff will have some additional scholarships this spring, after all. The school announced Tuesday that two freshmen – Dominique Bull and Negus Webster-Chan – have decided to transfer.
Missouri men’s basketball coach Frank Haith is seeking to have the NCAA’s case against him thrown out.
Missouri wrestling coach Brian Smith has been named the coach of the year in the Mid-American Conference for 2013, the school announced Tuesday.
Another highly rated in-state football prospect for the 2014 recruiting class has decommitted from Missouri. Markel Smith, a 5-foot-11, 210-pound running back from St. Louis who is listed as a three-star prospect according to Rivals.com, announced his decision to re-open his recruitment on Sunday via Twitter.
Missouri’s Keion Bell, a 6-foot-4 senior guard, will compete in the college slam dunk contest Thursday at McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta as part of the Final Four weekend. Bell won MU’s slam-dunk title by leaping over six people for a slam.
Tigers have added power on offense to the strong pitching of Chelsea Thomas.
Next season may be coach Frank Haith’s first at Missouri with only players that he recruited.
Tigers falter in their final matches, but still finish the NCAA Tournament with five medalists. Penn State won its third straight team title, while the Tigers placed seventh.
Laurence Bowers sat at his locker, dejected, his eyes glued to the floor. The end of his college career was upon him, thanks to an 84-72 loss to Colorado State on Thursday, and yet, the fifth-year Missouri senior still found himself giving words of advice to junior forward Tony Criswell.
Missouri was knocked out of the NCAA Tournament with an 84-72 loss to Colorado State, which was led by former Lawrence High player Dorian Green’s game-high 26 points. The loss marked the third straight season the Tigers were knocked out in their NCAA Tournament opener.
Friday’s performance at the NCAA wrestling championships left Missouri wrestling coach Brian Smith “sick.”
Colorado State grabs 23 more rebounds than the Tigers in an 84-72 victory.
Missouri began day one of the NCAA wrestling championships with a full lineup. Each of the 10 Tigers remain alive after Thursday’s evening session with four still in contention for individual golds.
Lawrence High graduate Dorian Green finished with a game-high 26 points, including 17 in the first half and three three-pointers in Colorado State’s 84-72 win over Missouri.
Top-seeded Louisville jumped out to commanding 20-point lead in the first half and rolled to a 79-48 win against undermatched and 16th-seeded North Carolina A&T on Thursday evening at Rupp Arena. The Cardinals will face Colorado State on Saturday in the round of 32.
Missouri point guard Phil Pressey says he's weighing whether to return for his senior season or leave school for the NBA draft.
Two years after he was greeted with questions of “Frank Who?”, Haith could make history tonight against Colorado State in the Tigers’ NCAA Tournament opener. With a victory, Haith, 47, will become the first Missouri basketball coach to win 24 games in each of his first two seasons. But there are more twists and turns to Haith’s saga.
Frank Haith has noticed a common denominator in Missouri’s close losses this season. “Attack,” he said as Missouri prepared to open the NCAA Tournament against Colorado State on Thursday in Lexington, Ky. “It’s about running good offense and finishing with an aggressive play. We’ve become passive in those situations and not just in running offense, but we’ve taken soft shots.”
Former Mizzou star Kim English has plenty on his plate these days, but that hasn’t kept him from keeping a close eye on his alma mater this season. The Star caught up with English and asked him about several topics, including Phil Pressey, the ceiling for this year’s team and the strategic differences he sees being employed this year compared to last year.
Missouri coach Frank Haith isn’t concerned by the Tigers’ late tipoff Thursday in their NCAA Tournament opener in Lexington, Ky. The Tigers’ game against Colorado State is scheduled to start around 8:20 p.m. Both of Missouri’s games in the SEC tournament last week started after 9 p.m.
Even Frank Haith wondered why his Tigers were throwing the ball to Alex Oriakhi as he struggled to score earlier this season. But three months later, Oriakhi has turned into the Tigers’ most dependable low-post scorer as they prepare to open the NCAA Tournament tonight against Colorado State.
The ninth-seeded Tigers are coming off a disappointing 64-62 loss to Mississippi in the SEC tournament quarterfinals. The Tigers had won four of their last five games before the loss.
A top priority for Missouri on Thursday will be stopping Colorado State senior Colton Iverson, who has scored 20 or more points in three of his last four games. Iverson is the anchor of a Rams team that rebounds nearly as well as the Tigers.
Even though Missouri — which lost six of its top seven players from a team that only went seven deep last season — finished 23-10 and made the NCAA Tournament as a No. 9 seed Sunday, that didn’t keep the Tigers from having to answer questions about last year’s upset to No. 15 seed Norfolk State — one of several gut-wrenching defeats that Missouri fans have dealt with over the years.
Three Missouri players — Phil Pressey, Laurence Bowers and Alex Oriakhi — were honored Monday on the Associated Press All-SEC team. Pressey, a junior point guard, was chosen to the second team, while senior forwards Bowers and Oriakhi received honorable mention.
