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Rock M Roundtable: The Men’s Basketball season starts Monday

It hasn’t been a slow week, with the football team in a bye week. There’s been plenty to talk about. From Eli Drinkwitz being the topic of many fan message boards at places like LSU, Florida, and Penn State, to the questions around a freshman quarterback taking over for the injured Beau Pribula. But for […]

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Mizzou volleyball preps for scary, spooky showdowns in Tennessee

The Mizzou volleyball team has rebuilt its season from the ground up, winning the last six matches in a row. The Tigers are now 6-4 in the SEC and currently the No. 7 team in the conference. For the most part the team has done this against lower-level opponents, with all six wins coming against […]

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Missouri Basketball Player Previews

If you haven’t been paying attention, Matt Wakins, aka DataMizzou, has been publishing player previews on YouTube and RockM.plus now for the last month. Each preview is fully available to the general public, and not just for subscribers. The videos range in length from about 15 minutes to 30 minutes, and they’re chalk full of […]

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Commute: Figuring out Mizzou Hoops expectations

Or, why I spend so much time looking at the rest of the SEC. Also, Happy Halloween! I can be accused of being a bit of a homer, viewing things with Mizzou basketball with rose-colored glasses. A large part of that comes from me just wanting to enjoy my sports fandom, and doom and gloom […]

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The Gators are primed to make a run at another championship

The NCAA National Championship returned to an SEC school for the first time since Kentucky won everything in 2012, thanks to the Florida Gators. A trendy pick to finish inside the top 4 of the league, Florida flew under the radar for much of the season thanks in part to, well, not playing anybody. While […]

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Bye Week Breakdown 2: Offense

With the completion of Mizzou’s second trimester of the 2025 season, I felt like it would be a good time to take a look at how the Tigers’ offense and defense ranks nationally. And not just in your standard stats like total rushing yards or whatever. No. We’re going deeper. Here’s what I got for […]

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What’s The Trend: Bye Week Pt. 2

Welcome to the series, ‘What’s The Trend,‘ which highlights the biggest risers and fallers in the Mizzou Football world each week! Mizzou is coming off its first road loss of the season and has a much-needed bye week coming up. Here are this week’s trends: On the Rise Matt Zollers and the Freshmen Watching Beau […]

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SBN Reacts: Who Will Lead Mizzou Basketball in Scoring this Season?

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Missouri fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. The Missouri Basketball season is around the corner, entering year four of the Dennis Gates era. […]

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Best Bets: Week 10

Every week, Rock M Nation will post the SEC betting lines for that week’s slate of games. DISCLAIMER: Rock M Nation is not an online gambling operator, nor a gambling site of any kind. We are simply here to provide information about sports betting for entertainment purposes only. None of the staff will be using […]

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Arkansas has the talent to compete at the top of the league

From a trainwreck to the Sweet 16 is how the Arkansas Razorbacks 2024-25 season went from start to finish. John Calipari arrived in Fayetteville with no roster, built through the portal and tacked on most of his recruiting class from Kentucky. All Calipari did was follow recent seasons for the Hogs by underachieving throughout most […]

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Tigers Gear Up for SEC Championship Showdown in Tennessee This Friday

This Friday, the University of Missouri Tigers are set to take on the Southeastern Conference’s top collegiate cross country teams at the Cherokee Farm Cross Country Course in Knoxville for the 2025 SEC Cross Country Championship. Hosted by the University of Tennessee, this event will feature the men’s 8k race at precisely 9:08 a.m. CDT […]

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The night Mizzou women’s basketball lost to a Division II team

It’s 10 p.m. on Tuesday. I’m supposed to be home right now. My stomach, void of a full meal since the early afternoon, is confused and angry as to why we’re still at Mizzou Arena.  That’s because I’m writing about how a small Division II school west of St. Louis beat Mizzou women’s basketball in […]

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Mizzou’s Bye Week Isn’t a Break — It’s a Reset

After a frustrating 17-10 loss to Vanderbilt that dropped Missouri to 6-2 on the season, the Tigers find themselves facing one of their most important weeks of the year. A week without a game. Mizzou’s bye week comes at a critical moment, sitting between a disappointing performance in Nashville and a looming match up against […]

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Disrespectful Play Index: Ahmad Hardy runs through some more people

I hated writing this post. Hated it. Read my Revue and you’ll understand why. It was physically painful to hit ‘play’ on the highlights video for multiple reasons. Saturday’s game was a well-fought battle between two up-and-coming SEC dark horses. But it was also a picture of clinical, unexciting football, especially on Mizzou’s side of […]

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Commute: Lots of questions coming up this offseason

Welcome to the Morning Commute Today we are talking about Mizzou Football! Following a disappointing loss to Vanderbilt — that resulted in the injury of quarterback Beau Pribula — the Tigers season has a very different outlook. Lots of questions have flown into the conversation revolving around who the starting quarterback will be next season […]

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Kentucky is going big on Mark Pope in year 2

There was plenty of reason to express some doubt over the Kentucky build last year. They went heavy on experience, had no real playmakers, and were limited in ball handlers. But the Wildcats acquitted themselves very well in Mark Pope’s first season, and exceeded most of the modest expectations. Early on they beat Duke and […]

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Zoey Matias-Lopez brings a spark to Mizzou volleyball in her freshman year

A common dogma around college athletics is that an experienced roster leads to success, and that few freshmen are talented enough to make an impact. Well, libero Zoey Matias-Lopez would like a word, as she is shattering expectations, becoming a key part of the Mizzou volleyball team in her freshman season. Across 12 games this […]

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Beyond The Box Score: Pop

I’m going to be slightly dramatic here for a second. I know that’s not my role and Rock M was not founded as a pit of overreactions so I know this is slightly out of place. But I’m going to say it anyway: Missouri’s championship-related goals died on the field when Beau Pribula was hit […]

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The Revue: Requiem for a Debilitating Loss

When someone tells you that something is “once-in-a-lifetime,” how do you usually interpret that phrase? That it’s so good that you only encounter something like it once? Is it a rare event, like some sort of astronomical event? Is it living in a shotgun shack? In another part of the world? Is it behind the […]

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Tennessee has a new look after years of continuity

Part of the fun of college basketball is watching players grow up over the course of four years. Coaches and player develop relationships and extends beyond the basketball court, and perhaps there are few relationships over the last few years quite like Rick Barnes and Zakai Zeigler. Zeigler represented more than just Tennessee as a […]

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Week 10 Opening Odds: Tigers lick their wounds into the bye week

If you’re in Missouri this Sunday, the weather matches the mood. Mizzou is coming off a heartbreaking loss — literally by inches — to Vanderbilt, which effectively puts them in do-or-die territory for their fledgling College Football Playoff hopes. Even then, the Tigers may have lost starting QB Beau Pribula for the season after a […]

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