A Blog for Ol' Mizzou
Eli Drinkwitz and Mike Kelly returned to Tiger Talk Tuesday night in a new location, the Walsworth Family Columns Club at Memorial Stadium, as part of the Taste of the Tigers event benefitting The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri. Here’s what Drinkwitz, alongside safety Jalen Catalon and right tackle Keagen Trost, had to […]
We’re back to your regularly scheduled programming this week! This week’s coverage (pushed back a day to include women’s basketball) includes photos from swim and dive’s meet against Vanderbilt and McKendree and women’s basketball’s season opener win against Central Arkansas. Coach Grevers is known to be very animated during meets, and keeping that in mind, […]
Sometimes it’s best if you just accept you’re going to be uncomfortable. The moment I saw this game on the schedule, I immediately grimaced and shifted in my seat. Not because I was pulling some woe-is-me Mizzou’d sad-sack fandom thing, but because I knew that going on the road to a place like Howard was […]
Last week I did a deeper dive on Missouri’s offense through four games. You can find it here. This week we do the same for the defense. Here we go! Let’s start with the big reveal: Missouri’s defense actually got BETTER after the last three games than the previous five-game sample set! They went from 11th […]
If Eli Drinkwitz has any plans to leave Mizzou at the end of the year for another program, his recruiting momentum certainly isn’t giving anything away. After much hand-wringing this fall about Drink’s 2026 class, the staff has been on a heater over the past few weeks, adding half a dozen new commitments since the […]
Welcome to the Morning Commute Today we’re talking about Mizzou Hoops! College basketball season is officially underway with Mizzou men’s and women’s hoops getting their seasons started with wins on Monday night. On the men’s side, Mizzou is off to a 1-0 start with an 88-67 road win over Howard. In a double-double performance, Shawn […]
Mizzou women’s basketball started the Kellie Harper era with a nail-biting victory over Central Arkansas 78-71. Much like the exhibition game, Mizzou women’s basketball was in a dogfight to a much smaller team. With less than 90 seconds left, the two teams were tied at 71 points apiece. The Tigers had the ball, drawing up […]
Washington D.C. is one of America’s most prominent melting pots. High diversity exists in the city’s people, food and other major aspects. 15 minutes north of the U.S. Capitol, high diversity existed in Mizzou men’s basketball’s 88-67 victory over Howard. All nine players who saw the floor scored, and Shawn Phillips II led the way with […]
Final: Mizzou 88 – Howard 67 First Half Second Half Pregame Updates Mizzou will be without two rotation members for its season opener. Here is the first official starting five of the season for Mizzou, the same group the Tigers ran with during the exhibition against Kansas State: Missouri @ Howard When | 6:00 p.m. […]
No more bye weeks. It’s now or never for Mizzou’s fledgling College Football Playoff hopes. Realistically, I know what I just typed isn’t feasible. It might not be fair. Mizzou is down two captains and starting-caliber QBs. They’re down to their third stringer and, as much as we love Matt Zollers and can see a […]
It’s easy to forget, but Missouri’s start to the 2026 recruiting cycle hit a bit of turbulence back in May. First, John Burroughs center Sheek Pearson committed to Marquette and would later reclassify to join the Golden Eagles this season. And just three days later, JJ Andrews, a long-time priority who seemed poised to pick […]
It would be different if the Tigers were getting their numbers up late in the recruiting trail with low-end three star recruits just to fill numbers. But that’s not what’s happening. In the past month, Mizzou has added its top four recruits according to 247Sports and On3, and have shown no signs of slowing down. […]
Welcome to the Morning Commute Mizzou Hoops is back. Let us all rejoice. The Tigers kick off their season in DC tonight against the Howard Bison in what’s sure to be a big season for Gates, who’s still looking for an extended run into the NCAA Tournament. Can Anthony Robinson II make the leap from […]
No. 18 Mizzou wrestling opened its 2025-26 schedule with the Missouri Duals at the Hearnes Center. The Tigers competed against Division II programs, Drury and Maryville, and an NAIA program in Central Methodist. Let’s look at some of the biggest highlights from each dual. All rankings are according to InterMat. Drury Dual 125lbs: NR Luqman […]
As the clocks fall back, Mizzou volleyball fell flat on its face in a 3-2 loss against Vanderbilt 24-26, 25-13, 25-23, 25-21, 14-16; a team that had previously only won a single SEC match. The Tigers were playing from behind all match with a two-set deficit, and they just didn’t have enough left in the […]
Before last season, Mizzou needed to erase the dread from the 2023-24 season. The mission was mostly accomplished. The Tigers got back to the NCAA Tournament, but they lost a frustrating game to Drake. Entering this season, the Big Dance appears to be a reasonable expectation. Whether Mizzou gets there or not depends on a […]
I guess I’m turning this into an annual tradition. Bill C. used to do a ‘Count the Ifs’ post before each football season, and once Nate came on board he took it over and has kept the tradition going with aplomb. Last year, I wanted to try the same for basketball. Missouri was coming off […]
The Missouri Tigers welcomed in conference opponent Vanderbilt (women) and D2 McKendree (men/women) to the gorgeous Mizzou Aquatic Center — I love that place and have such fond memories of it from my coaching days — on November 1, and came away with a very convincing sweep in the double dual, with the men beating […]
At 41 years old, Max Scherzer doesn’t have much left to prove. Three Cy Young Awards. Two World Series rings. More than 3,400 strikeouts. A résumé that will walk him into Cooperstown the second he’s eligible. But on Saturday night, under the bright lights of Game 7 in Toronto, Scherzer reminded baseball what his career […]
Missouri Basketball season is here as the Tigers open up their 2025-2026 campaign on Monday at Howard. Despite some question marks entering year four under Dennis Gates — expectations are still high for Mizzou as they return Mark Mitchell and Anthony Robinson II from an NCAA Tournament appearance last season. In our latest SB Nation […]
I hope everyone had a nice quiet week, and a good Halloween last night. Halloween is one of those holidays that seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit for me personally. We live in North St. Louis County now, and have for the last 10 years (if you were unaware), and post-COVID our […]
The only thing scarier than the Boogeyman this Halloween is how red hot the Mizzou volleyball team has become. The Tigers extended their winning streak to seven with a 3-1 win over No. 16 Tennessee 25-21, 23-25, 25-23, 25-17. The two teams were almost identical in every category, but Mizzou was much more efficient on […]
WELCOME BACK TO PREGAMIN’ HERE’S YOUR JAM OF THE WEEK HAPPY HALLOWEEN, HAVE A RESTFUL AND CHILL WEEKEND, MY FRIENDS Rock M-ixology So there you are. It’s Halloween, and not everyone coming over to your party is a beer/bourbon fan. I get it, pleasing everyone can be hard, especially when it comes to alcohol. You […]
The Tigers finished fifth overall in both the men’s and women’s races at the SEC Championships Friday in Knoxville, Tenn., with 16 schools competing. Freshmen Drew Rogers and Monica Wanjiku deliver standout performances, as they continue to lead their team with strong showings. “When you’re consistent, I think that that allows you to go into […]
The recruiting heater hasn’t shown any signs of stopping as the Tigers flipped another recruit, three star cornerback Jaxson Gates, to add a 21st piece to their Class of 2026. The news came on Halloween, and safe to say BYU is spooked. Gates was committed to the Cougars for almost two weeks before flipping his […]