It’s been a calendar year since Missouri’s softball season ended against LSU in the NCAA super regional round. But if you think the blow has been softened by a fourth consecutive trip to the same round this year — the Tigers play host to Washington in a best-of-three series starting Thursday night at University Field — you’d be dead wrong.
Brad Korn will leave his job as director of basketball operations at Kansas State to become an assistant coach on Paul Lusk’s staff at Missouri State.
It’s been decades since a true shooting guard went No. 1 overall in the NBA Draft. And Ben McLemore is trying to become the first Jayhawk to go first overall since Danny Manning in 1988. But does McLemore have a chance?
A little more than 24 hours before the biggest game of the season, Missouri softball coach Ehren Earleywine was still unsure whether his best pitcher, Chelsea Thomas, would take the mound.
Cornerback Finis Stribling IV, who became Missouri’s ninth verbal commitment for the Class of 2014 on Monday, is the second defensive back in the 2014 class to commit to Missouri, joining East St. Louis safety Greg Taylor. Stribling is also the second prospect from Tennessee to commit, joining two-star receiver Thomas Richard from Nashville.
Missouri will be building a new softball stadium. Associate athletic director Tim Hickman confirmed over the weekend the building is now in the school’s plans, though no site has been determined. He expects the stadium to cost in the neighborhood of $15 million.
Blue Valley West rising senior Michael Fairchild, a 6-foot-6, 283-pound offensive tackle, verbally committed to Missouri on Monday night.
The Ottawa High School graduate was the only individual champion of the weekend for a Missouri team hosting the SEC track championships for the first time.
After a strong performance at their first-ever Southeastern Conference Tournament this weekend, the Missouri softball team, 35-11, learned Sunday that they have received a No. 6 overall seed in the NCAA tournament.
Missouri ace Chelsea Thomas shuts down Tennessee in semifinals game on Saturday but then gets roughed up in title game against Florida.
Missouri gets to show off its digs and hospitality in playing host to SEC track and field championships
Missouri’s SEC tournament semifinal against Tennessee was moved from Friday to 12:30 p.m. Saturday because of inclement weather, giving an extra day’s rest to star pitcher Chelsea Thomas, who pitched a shutout in the Missouri’s 8-0 win over Arkansas on Thursday.
A federal judge denied Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith’s Rule 27 petition to determine whether Bank of America shared detailed records from his personal business account during the NCAA’s two-year investigation of the University of Miami.
Former Missouri star Phil Pressey has is one of 60 players from across the country who have been invited to the NBA Combine. A 5-foot-11 point guard, Pressey declared for the draft in April after an up-and-down season in which he carried a greater offensive burden.
Star pitcher Chelsea Thomas pitched No. 7 Missouri to an 8-0 run-rule win over No. 22 Arkansas in a SEC tournament quarterfinal gam Thursday in Lexington, Ky. Thomas pitched a complete game, allowing only two hits with one walk while striking out five in the five-inning game.
Shannon Welker, who agreed to a five-year contract worth $125,000 per year to become Missouri’s new gymnastics coach, was lured by the Tigers’ history, their new gymnastics facility that opened in 2011 and the competition in the Southeastern Conference, which sent four teams to the NCAA Super Six team final in April.
Kevin Pendleton, a 6-foot-5, 320-pound offensive tackle from Lee’s Summit West, verbally committed to Missouri on Wednesday night. Pendleton is Missouri’s seventh commitment in the Class of 2014, and the Tigers’ third three-star prospect.
Missouri’s men’s basketball team will be a part of the eight-team field in the 2013 Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational, held Nov. 28-29 in the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.
The players from West Florida Tech in Pensacola are bound for Columbia: three-star defensive lineman Nate Crawford; defensive end Rocel McWilliams, a two-star 2014 prospect; and Luke Jackson, an all-state kicker who has decided to walk on.
