Wichita native Caleb Grill leads Division 1 basketball in 3-point shooting at Mizzou
Wichita native Caleb Grill, a 2019 Maize graduate, is making the most out of his sixth and final season of college basketball.
The sharpshooter has returned from a scary neck injury suffered earlier in the season to help propel Missouri to a 16-4 record and No. 20 ranking in the latest AP Top-25 poll. Grill recently hit six 3-pointers and scored 22 points to help the Tigers take down then No. 5-ranked Florida, which led to him earning SEC Player of the Week honors.
Even more impressively, Grill currently ranks No. 1 in the country in 3-point shooting percentage, as he has connected on 43 of 89 looks beyond the arc for 48.3% accuracy that tops all of Division I.
Grill is in the midst of enjoying a career-best season, averaging 12.7 points and 2.9 3s per game — both career highs. He is on pace to shatter his previous best mark in 3-point percentage, which was 36.8% during the 2022-23 season when he played at Iowa State.
The 6-foot-3 guard scored a career-high 33 points earlier this season against Eastern Washington before a neck injury forced him to sit out five games in December. Since returning to a full load of minutes, Grill has averaged 16 points and shot 47.2% (17 of 36) on 3-pointers in his past five games against SEC competition.
Missouri is the third stop in Grill’s college career, as he began at Iowa State, then played at UNLV for one season before playing the next two at Iowa State. He was granted an extra year of eligibility due to the coronavirus pandemic, then used a redshirt season last season at Missouri when he fractured his wrist against Wichita State in the ninth game on the schedule. Grill recently scored his 1,000th career point and has totaled 235 triples in 140 career games.
Grill and the Tigers are back in action this Saturday with an SEC road game at No. 14 Mississippi State.
This story was originally published January 28, 2025 at 6:04 AM with the headline "Wichita native Caleb Grill leads Division 1 basketball in 3-point shooting at Mizzou."
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