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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RELEASES SCHEDULE

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri women's basketball announced its 2024-25 schedule on Wednesday, unveiling the dates of its full 31-game slate.
The schedule features 19 home games including six in the month of December.
The Tigers face nine programs who made NCAA Tournament appearances a season ago with four paying visits to Mizzou Arena in reigning national champion South Carolina, LSU, Vanderbilt and Tennessee.
The Tigers open the new year with a trip to face Vermont on Nov. 4. The road contest will be followed by a three-game homestand against Southern University (Nov. 7), Norfolk State (Nov. 10) and Tulane (Nov. 12).
On Thanksgiving week in November, Missouri will compete in the Emerald Coast Classic where it will face Syracuse on Nov. 25 and Creighton or Wichita State on Nov. 26.
The entirety of the Tigers' December schedule will be played at home with Jacksonville State, SMU, as part of the SEC/ACC Challenge, Northern Illinois, Lipscomb, Oral Roberts and Jackson State all paying visits.
From there, the calendar turns to a new year and new era of SEC play as the Gamecocks return to Columbia on Jan. 2.
January features home games against Florida and Mississippi State with several road contests including trips to new conference entrants Oklahoma and Texas on Jan. 16 and Jan. 30, respectively.
The Tigers last faced the Longhorns in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on March 22, 2016. The last matchup with the Sooners took place in the second round of the Big 12 Tournament on March 8, 2012.
February ushers in four more home contests with a pair of two-game homestands against Tennessee and LSU followed by a second clash with Oklahoma and finishing with Kentucky.
Mizzou closes out the regular season at home against Vanderbilt on March 2.
The SEC Tournament will be held March 5-9 in Greenville, S.C.
Tip times and television designations will be announced at a later date.
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Season tickets for the 2024-25 season are on sale now and start at just $49. Current season-ticket holders can renew their tickets by using their Mizzou Tigers account.
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2024-25 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
Monday, November 4 - at Vermont
Thursday, November 7 – Southern University
Sunday, November 10 – vs. Norfolk State
Tuesday, November 12 – vs. Tulane

Friday, November 15 - at Western Illinois University
Wednesday, November 20 – vs. Saint Louis
Friday, November 22 – vs. Little Rock

Monday, November 25 - Syracuse (Emerald Coast Classic)
Tuesday, November 26 - Creighton / Wichita State (Emerald Coast Classic)
Monday, December 2 – Jacksonville State
Thursday, December 5 – vs. SMU (SEC-ACC Challenge)
Saturday, December 7 – vs. Northern Illinois
Sunday, December 15 – vs. Lipscomb
Wednesday, December 18 – vs. Oral Roberts
Sunday, December 29 – vs. Jackson State
Thursday, January 2 – vs. South Carolina

Sunday, January 5 – at Alabama
Thursday, January 9 - at Georgia
Sunday, January 12 – vs. Florida

Thursday, January 16 – at Oklahoma
Sunday, January 19 – at Auburn
Monday, January 27 – vs. Mississippi State

Thursday, January 30 – at Texas
Sunday, February 2 – vs. Tennessee
Thursday, February 6 – vs. LSU

Sunday, February 9 – at Texas A&M
Sunday, February 16 – vs. Oklahoma
Thursday, February 20 – vs. Kentucky

Sunday, February 23 – at Ole Miss
Thursday, February 27 – at Arkansas
Sunday, March 2 – vs. Vanderbilt
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OFF TOPIC Year Attending 1st Mizzou Home Game

Just curious what year everybody attended their first Mizzou game?????. I've been a Tiger fan since the 70's. I'm sure a lot of your first games were when you went to school there. I didn't go to Mizzou. Been a lifelong fan, but got my degrees from MWSU, UMKC. I went to my first game in person in 95. I started going to a game or 2 a year in 96. Purchased season tix in 98. I let the season tix go for several years when my kids had travel ball tournaments every (freaking) weekend and tried to hit a game or 2 each year. Repurchased season tix a few years back.

NFL and College Fantasy Football Leagues ($)

I created two fantasy leagues if anybody is interested. I have ran PM leagues each of the last two years and had really good experiences. Each league is $50 and the entry can be paid via venmo or paypal. Fantrax is the only league that runs a season long college league, so that's why I've chosen that site for that league. The NFL league is on ESPN and is standard rosters and scoring. Take a look at the leagues and let me know.

College League (16 teams)
Standard fantasy scoring
Expanded Rosters (20 players, 2 QBs, etc.)
Player pool is the 4 power conferences + Notre Dame
Draft is Wednesday, August 21st at 8 pm CST


NFL League (12 teams)
Standard Fantasy Scoring and Roster limits
Draft is Wednesday, August 28th at 8 pm CST


I've also kicked around the idea of creating a weekly contest on Fanduel or Draftkings. I haven't decided the format yet (whether it would be a weekly snake draft, or traditional DFS contest), but I'm open to ideas. The entry for that would probably be $5 a week, which you would pay to the site when you enter. Of course, you decide whether you play one week, or every week in this contest. I love Fantasy Football and didn't have as many teams last year. I missed it, so I'm getting this going earlier this year.
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FOOTBALL Dan Mullen is on color commentary for the Murray State game

Week 0 and 1 ESPN/ABC broadcast team assignments

The full team is Matt Barrie on play by play, Dan Mullen on color commentary and Harry Lyles Jr doing sideline reporting.

The article also notes the 2:30 SEC game will have rotating commentary teams and week 1 shows why, as Fowler and Herbstreit work the prime time Notre Dame-A&M game instead. Joe Tessitore/Jesse Palmer/Katie George cover the 2:30 Miami @ Florida slot, with Sean McDonough/Greg McElroy/Molly McGrath in Charlotte for UGA-Clemson.
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Drinkwitz on St. Louis recruiting

We're at the point in the year where somebody's asking a lot about the momentum in St. Louis and the number of St. Louis players on the team. The difference is now it's a positive question whereas in the past it's often been a negative question. But this is something that gets talked about every year with every coach who has ever coached here. Drink gave the best answer I've ever heard and, frankly, the answer I've wanted to hear Missouri coaches give for two decades:

"You know, it's been interesting. When we first got here, obviously, we were adamant, still are adamant, about recruiting the local area as hard as we possibly can, and probably overextended ourselves in St Louis as far as recruiting. And I think now it's been to the point where we're recruiting the right players from St Louis, and not everybody from St Louis wants to play at the University of Missouri, and I get that. Not everybody that wants to play at the University of Missouri is going to be offered a scholarship. But now we've got the right fit, and we're showing what the possibilities are, whether you're talking about Martin Burks, Brady Cook, Cody Schrader, Mitch Walters, Luther Burden, Brett Norfleet, Drake Heismeyer, I know I'm leaving a lot of guys out. Toriano Pride, Nic DeLoach, you know, all of these guys are the right fit for the University of Missouri, and they've embraced what it means to play here, and also what that means to represent the University of Missouri in their city of St Louis, too. So I think it's been an awesome thing. I think the other thing that we've done, which has been really good, is that we've expanded our net, you know, and now we're recruiting at a really high level in Kansas City, with Armand and Cayden and Williams and Mekhi Miller, Logan Reichert. Now we're recruiting the rural areas of Missouri, you know, at a really high level too. And I think that has been a very good addition to our recruiting."

What he didn't mention directly is the out of state recruiting success as well. But as far as his answer, here's my translation:

"Yeah, you know, just like everybody else here when we got here, we stressed in-state recruiting and St. Louis is the biggest city in the state and that's where we put our emphasis. But then we realized that, hey, some of these kids just don't want to come here and aren't going to ever want to come here. We went out and won games and we've shown that we have a program they can be successful at. If they want to come here, and we want them, that's great. We'll recruit the hell out of those kids. If not, we're doing well in KC and the small towns and out of state and we'll go get kids from there."

It's EXACTLY the right answer. It pays some deference to St. Louis, which you have to do. But it also says "You know what? We're doing a damn good job a lot of places and we've shown we can get kids. We'd love a lot of them to be from St. Louis. But if they don't want to come here, so be it."

IMO, for way too long, it's been an unbalanced relationship. A lot in St. Louis (not all, certainly, and it's not the only place like this so I don't want anyone to think that I'm picking on St. Louis, but this is the one we're talking about and it's the most frequent subject of this conversation) have wanted Missouri to bend over backwards and do everything for St. Louis when that hasn't always been reciprocated. They've held Missouri to a different standard than they've held other programs. And I think, in a non-confrontational way, Drink has made it clear that they really value St. Louis and want St. Louis...but it's not going to be what makes or breaks him as Missouri's coach.

Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but that's how I read it and I think it's an absolutely phenomenal answer.
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