The Post-Dispatch evaluates which Missouri players mean the most to the Tigers ahead of the 2025 college football season.
Bring your Tigers football, basketball and recruiting questions, and talk to Eli Hoff in a live chat at 11 a.m. Thursday.
In today’s 10 AM “Ten Hochman” video, Ben Hochman discusses SLU’s Terrence Hargrove and Mizzou’s Tamar Bates, both teammates on the Nuggets’ summer league team! Plus, a happy birthday shoutout to So Taguchi! And as always, Hochman picks a random Cards card out of the hat!
And in football recruiting, Missouri picked up a commitment from a legacy offensive lineman.
Smithpeters, who has been with the Tigers for the last three seasons, was named Missouri's associate head coach on Tuesday.
Find answers to key questions about what comes next for the University of Missouri and college sports' latest sweeping rules change.
Mizzou Tigers basketball legend Sophie Cunningham has gone viral due to her vicious takedown of an opponent who hurt Caitlin Clark.
Brandon Anderson picked Missouri over offers from Tennnesssee and North Carolina.
Idaho won't stay ahead of Missouri for long, and the Tigers' trickle of commitments isn't all that different from past years.
Tamar Bates, Caleb Grill and John Tonje — who all transferred to Missouri in 2023 — have signed NBA contracts.
One-time MU player John Tonje, meanwhile, went to the Utah Jazz with the 53rd overall pick.
The programs will now play six times in a future series instead of eight, Illinois athletics director Josh Whitman said.
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That Tamar Bates, Caleb Grill and John Tonje will all be available heading into Thursday's second round is not necessarily surprising.
Edwardsville wide receiver Devyon Hill-Lomax was the latest player to commit to the Tigers.
Bates is the more likely of the duo to be drafted and could slip into the first round.
Maxwell Warner, a three-star prospect, committed to the Tigers on Monday.
"The first players that you have to recruit, when it comes to the transfer portal, are your own," Missouri men's basketball general manager Tim Fuller said.
"We need to have at some level federal action that gives us a level of protection so we can continue to move forward," Missouri athletics director Laird Veatch said last week.
“That’s something else that has to take time to play out," athletics director Laird Veatch said. "It's managing through these immediate fiscal years that we see in front of us.”
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It’s a similar schedule to past ones Mizzou has played under coach Dennis Gates, with marquee rivalry games in December but few games of significance otherwise.
In today’s 10 AM “Ten Hochman” video, Ben Hochman discusses Caitlin Clark and the physical play of teammate Sophie Cunningham (Mizzou)! Plus, a happy birthday shoutout to Paul McCartney! And as always, Hochman picks a random Cards card out of the hat!
The Post-Dispatch compiled Mizzou's NIL spending on athletes through a series of invoices sent to the athletics department.
Drew Dickinson was announced as the new pitching coach for the University of Missouri's baseball team on Tuesday
Fuller and Mizzou are investing in relationships with three groups of people, he said: agents, high school prospects and international players.
Ideally, everyone will be as invested in making this new college sports model work as they are invested in winning. Well, that's cute.
“I don’t feel like we’re in a position to share specific sports and specific details and amounts,” Missouri athletics director Laird Veatch said Thursday, citing competitive reasons.
