Missouri Tigers NCAA Basketball News

COLUMBIA As freshmen last year, Miguel Paul and Steve Moore stood out among Missouri's seven newcomers.

The Missouri Tigers men's basketball team has defeated division II Truman State 96-33 in its first exhibition game at Mizzou Arena.

Prowling the baseline of Mizzou Arena during a recent Missouri men's basketball practice, junior forward Justin Safford seemed different.

J.T. Tiller, a senior guard on the Missouri men's basketball team, was one of 30 NCAA basketball players named to the Lowe's Senior CLASS List.

Missouri is coming off a postseason run that ended one game shy of the Final Four and lost its top two scorers.

Grizzlies fans Grant Hall and Steven Blankenship cheer on the Grizzlies as they tip off their season against the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night at FedExForum.

On the dais just off the floor at the Sprint Center, Missouri coach Mike Anderson was trying to define the fine differences between his starting tandem of senior guards, J.T. Tiller and Zaire Taylor.Zaire, hes more subtle in his role, Anderson said.Meanwhile, under the stands where players from every team gathered Thursday for Big 12 mens ...

Missouri head coach Mike Anderson took the podium Thursday for a question and answer session at the annual Big 12 Basketball Media Day at the Sprint Center.

" The hoops season is just around the corner and all the Big 12 conference coaches visited the Sprint Center on Thursday.

Freshman guard Michael Dixon Jr. received a lot more than playing time during the annual Black and Gold game - he received a pardon.

Last year: 31-7 overall, 12-4 Big 12 , lost in NCAA Tournament Elite EightNoteworthy: Mike Anderson enters his fourth season at Mizzou with a 65-35 record, a winning percentage of .650. Legendary coach Norm Stewart, in 32 seasons, had a .656 winning percentage.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 3:43 p.m. Could it be Lucky #7 for Mizzou Basketball once again in 2010? For the second consecutive season the Tigers were picked seventh in the Big 12 Conferencea s Preseason Coaches Poll and of course last yeara s club finished with a school record 31 wins, a Big 12 Conference Tournament Championship and an ...

Friday at 5:01 p.m. at Mizzou Arena not only marked the official start of basketball practice for the MU men's basketball team, but also a chance to find its identity.

Columbia -- Posing in a defensive crouch with no basketball in sight would be anathema to most big-time college players, even for a preseason photo shoot.

Apparently, the Missouri Tigers basketball team has much yet to prove. After narrowly missing the program's first-ever Final Four appearance and posting a school-record in wins a season ago, the Tigers were picked seventh in the Big 12's Preseason Coaches' Poll released Wednesday.

Guard Craig Austrie #24 of the Connecticut Huskies is defended by guard J.T. Tiller #4 and forward Leo Lyons #5 of the Missouri Tigers in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament at the University of Phoenix Stadium on March 28, 2009 in Glendale, Arizona.

Missouri's J.T. Tiller is again ready to show that leading a team back to the national stage doesn't have to mean scoring lots of points.

MU guard Kim English will be one of the keys to the Tigers success during the upcoming basketball season.

He had to have a vision, a mission, an idea of what he wanted to be ''so that we, his family, could do everything we could to help him accomplish it,'' Ed Carroll said.

COLUMBIA -- Season tickets for Missouri's men's basketball season are on sale through the Mizzou Athletics Ticket Office, starting as low as $199 for select seats.