J.T. Tiller News

Basketball wise guys always tell you that you do not fall in love unconditionally with college basketball teams in November and December.

For the Missouri Tigers, it was too little too late. Mizzou trailed the Vanderbilt Commodores by 14 with 5:25 to go in the game but then came to life.

In the embryonic stage of its encore campaign following last season's Elite Eight run, the Mizzou men's basketball team has seemed to be a talented, apparently promising but formless entity seeking identity and direction.

After feasting on skyhawks, broncs, and mockingbirds early in the season, the Missouri Tigers slogged through the rest of the 2009 South Padre Island Tournament as if they had just woken up from a post-Thanksgiving feast nap.A Over the semifinals and finals of the tournament, the Tigers managed to shoot only 35 percent from the field while ...

Posted November 24, 2009 at 10:53 a.m. Don Shrubshell photo Freshman guard Mike Dixon made the most of his chance to start in place of injured senior J.T. Tiller with nine points and seven assists on Sunday.

In his first game action since injuring his left foot Nov. 17, Missouri's J.T. Tiller played 31 minutes and led the Tigers with 12 points in their first true test of the season.

Two years ago, J. T. Tiller wouldnt have let something like a sprained ankle even a severely sprained ankle keep him out of an early-season basketball game.Tonight, hell probably take a second straight game off from precisely that injury.

English scores career-high 26 in MU victory. Kim English might not like coming off the bench for the Missouri basketball team, but the role certainly seems to suit him.

The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga Microsoft Office Communicators doesn't exactly roll off the tongue does it? Casual observers of UTC athletics will have to dig a little deeper than Wikipedia to discover the mystery behind the UTC mascot.

On the opening weekend of Thanksgiving Break, the generous atmosphere of the holiday infused Mizzou Arena a little early.

Missouri runs past Texas -Pan American, 100-44 Eds: APNewsNow. Missouri 100, Texas-Pan American 44.

First halfKey play: In a reverse sort of way it was the 14-foot jumper that Laurence Bowers missed from the left baseline with 1.1 seconds to play.

Missouri coach Mike Anderson said Thursday during his weekly press conference he was relieved to receive word that J.T. Tiller's injury to his left foot wasn't serious.

Missouri won its regular season basketball opener 83-68 over Tennessee-Martin. But Tigers senior guard J.T. Tiller a candidate for the national Wooden Award suffered a sprained left foot early in the second half and did not return.

Missouri guard J.T. Tiller went down in a heap early in the second half of the Tigers' regular-season basketball opener and did not return to the bench, much less the playing floor.

Jason James, a Parkway West High graduate and former Forest Park Community College coach, brings his Tennessee-Martin basketball team to Mizzou Arena tonight for the Missouri Tigers' season opener.

Mike Anderson wasn't necessarily upset to watch his Missouri basketball team struggle some against a scrappy squad from Northwest Missouri State in its exhibition finale.

It did not have quite the effect of knocking off Memphis in the Sweet 16, but Missouri took care of business in its opening exhibition game against the Truman State Bulldogs, winning 96-33. a oeEverybody came out and competed,a senior guard Zaire Taylor said.

The Missouri Tigers and Mississippi State Bulldogs headline the 7th annual South Padre Island Invitational Basketball Tournament, scheduled for Nov.

Missouri coach Mike Anderson, when told that the notes for tonights exhibition basketball opener against Truman State listed seven Tigers as possible starters, sought out his publicist.Youve got seven? Anderson said.