COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri Women’s Basketball will face Kansas State in the inaugural Bill Snyder Classic on Dec. 9 in St. Joseph, Mo. as announced by the city’s sports commission on Tuesday. The contest between the old conference rivals is slated for a 5 p.m. tipoff in Civic Arena. Television designation will be announced at a later date. …

The Missouri men’s golf team earned a bid to the 2023 NCAA Championship, receiving an invitation to the Morgan Hill, California, regional on Wednesday. The Tigers earned the No. 7 seed in the regional, which is slated to begin May 15. Pepperdine is the top seed in the region, while the Tigers will also be joined by Florida State, Mississippi …

Columbia, Mo – Missouri Women’s basketball has signed 6-foot-2 grad-transfer forward Angelique Ngalakulondi, head coach Robin Pingeton announced on Tuesday. Ngalakulondi joins the program after four seasons at UMass. Ngalakulondi started 32 games a season ago for the Minutewoman where she led the team and the Atlantic 10 Conference in field-goal percentage (56.6%). The Tigers’ signee averaged 7.7 points and 5.7 rebounds …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Luke Mann’s four extra-base hits helped Missouri score nine unanswered runs and rally past Kansas for a 9-7 victory that completed a season sweep of the Jayhawks Tuesday evening at Taylor Stadium. Mann’s first-inning, three-run homer wiped out a 3-0 KU lead and set the tone for the Tigers (25-19) at the plate. The fifth-year senior added three doubles to finish …

The NCAA released the latest Academic Progress Rates for the current multiyear cohort on Tuesday with six Missouri programs posting a perfect score and 14 teams either matching or exceeding their rate from the previous report. Overall, 16 of Missouri’s 18 programs exceeded their respective sports’ national average with another matching the standard. All 18 programs scored above a 965 …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri Volleyball Head Coach Dawn Sullivan announced Tuesday the signing of transfer Luisa Vilaca. Vilaca, a 6-2 setter from Sao Francisco do Sul, Brazil, comes to Mizzou after spending the past two seasons at Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida. As a freshman at MDC in 2021, she was named to the first-team All-Southern Conference …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Missouri baseball opens an eight-game home stand with a 6 p.m. (CDT) nonconference contest against archrival Kansas Tuesday (May 2) evening at Taylor Stadium. Mizzou is a perfect 9-0 in midweek action (Tuesday and Wednesday games) this season and brings a 19-3 overall mark against nonconference foes into Tuesday’s game. The Tigers and Jayhawks will meet for …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri Director of Athletics Desireé Reed-Francois named Blair DeBord as Associate AD for Development and Strategic Initiatives. DeBord, a former student-athlete, joins the Tigers staff following a stint at the University of Memphis. He will oversee the Tiger Scholarship Fund, Mizzou Athletics’ fundraising arm. “We are pleased to have Blair DeBord joining our team at Mizzou,” …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri Volleyball Head Coach Dawn Sullivan announced Monday the addition of transfer Naomi Franco. Franco, a 6-3 right side hitter from Fayetteville, Georgia, transfers to Mizzou after three seasons at Syracuse. In 2022, Franco was third on the Orange with 257 kills (2.5 kills/set) on a .227 hitting clip (second on team). She chipped in …

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri soccer head coach Stefanie Golan announces the leadership group for the 2023 season, and senior Rachel Kutella as a team captain. Kutella will join classmate Grace Pettet and junior Leah Selm as a captain for the squad this fall. Additionally, senior Jenna Bartels and junior Milena Fischer will unite with the captains to round …