The Morning Commute for Wednesday, January 1
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Today we’re talking about Mizzou Hoops.
Happy New Year, Mizzou fans! We hope you’re still celebrating the Music City Bowl victory, but now it’s really onto college basketball season.
Conference play starts on Saturday for Missouri at No. 2 Auburn — and Mizzou is currently on the bubble entering SEC play.
In Joe Lunardi’s latest bracketology — the Tigers are the First Team Out of the field.
Men’s Bracketology: 2025 NCAA Tournament https://t.co/146SOUuyXo. When the Big Ten expanded its footprint to the West Coast for L.A. staples UCLA and USC, who could have predicted that its most impactful addition would come a year later with an invitation to … Oregon? All…
— Joe Lunardi (@ESPNLunardi) December 31, 2024
An 11-2 non-conference record has put Missouri in solid position for a chance to make the Big Dance entering SEC play, but the Tigers will need more Quad 1 wins on their resume. They will have their opportunities in the best conference in college hoops.
Eight league wins might be the magic number to clinch an at-large bid this season. The path is there if Missouri (11-0 at home this season) can continue to take care of business at Mizzou Arena.
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“The win ends Mizzou’s season at 10-3, giving the Tigers back-to-back double-digit win seasons for just the third time in program history (2007-2008, 2013-2014, 2023-2024).”
Back-to-back 10-win seasons are rare. Enjoy it, Mizzou fans.
“The play was originally stuffed by tackling ace Corey Flagg Jr. jumping over the line, which stopped Sullivan just enough to allow Daylan Carnell to burst through and stop him in his tracks.”
Missouri’s defense wasn’t great, but they made the play that mattered the most.
“After losing his first two postseason trips as Missouri’s head coach, Eli Drinkwitz now has a pair of prestigious Big 10 wins on his CV.”
Mizzou is carrying the SEC in bowl season!
NEW FROM ME AT @RockMNation! @MizzouGym ready, prepared for 2025 season
The final intrasquad showed off the Tigers’ immense depth, making those lineup decisions that much harderhttps://t.co/ZpC1UunSIS
— Karen S (@karensteger) December 31, 2024
“The #BeamTeam is back! While I didn’t hear back from beam coach Lacey Rubin on her thoughts from the intrasquad, I was I-M-P-R-E-S-S-E-D. Four — count ‘em, 4!!!! — 9.90 scores! Kennedy recorded her highest ever score, perhaps cementing her place in the beam rotation, and three other Tigers, Helen Hu, Lauren Macpherson and Jessa Conedera, also posted 9.90 scores. A quartet of Tigers, including two freshmen, scored 9.80 scores. It was fantastic to see so much success up and down the lineup.”
Mizzou Gymnastics has high expectations entering this season. Follow Karen for all of the coverage.
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