MU’s DeMarre Carroll, left, and Matt Lawrence celebrate during the Tigers’ victory last night. Missouri is now 18-4 overall and 5-2 in the Big 12 Conference. • Read the Story • See the Slide Show

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MU Basketball
Lyons, Tigers roar
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Mike Anderson felt the need to shuffle his lineup in the wake of his Missouri basketball team’s loss to Kansas State on Wednesday night.[ 02/01/09 ]

He is Leo, for worse and better
By JOE WALLJASPER Tribune sports editor
Welcome to the head of Leo Lyons. You’ll have to excuse the crowd. Fans, teammates and coaches spend quite a bit of time trying to get inside but rarely make it past the velvet rope.[ 02/01/09 ]

Opposite day for Tiller
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
Missouri’s J.T. Tiller came to practice Thursday afternoon at Mizzou Arena with a straightforward plan. [ 02/01/09 ]

How sweet is home?
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
They appeared noticeably shaken, the confidence stored up in a four-game winning streak all but gone. When Missouri junior point guard Zaire Taylor, staring down a double-team near mid-court, airmailed a pass over the head of DeMarre Carroll and out of bounds, Carroll threw up his hands in frustration. [ 01/31/09 ]

Tigers don’t expect a repeat of last season
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
The No. 2 Oklahoma women’s basketball team won at fourth-ranked Baylor on Wednesday and plays Monday in a nationally televised game against No. 13 Tennessee. Volunteers Coach Pat Summitt will be going for her 1,000th win. [ 01/30/09 ]

Cat-scratch fever
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
MANHATTAN, Kan. - The next time the Missouri basketball team comes to Bramlage Coliseum will be too soon. [ 01/29/09 ]

Anderson’s focus on MU
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
MANHATTAN, Kan. - Mike Anderson has found himself on the list of candidates Alabama Athletic Director Mal Moore could pursue to fill the Crimson Tide’s head basketball coaching position left vacant by Mark Gottfried’s sudden resignation earlier this week. [ 01/29/09 ]

SLIDE SHOW: Kansas State 88, Missouri 72 [ 01/28/09 ]

Wildcats rout Tigers
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune's staff
MANHATTAN, Kan. — The next time the Missouri basketball team comes to Bramlage Coliseum will be too soon. [ 01/28/09 ]

Anderson mentioned as candidate at Alabama
By the Tribune’s staff
Missouri basketball Coach Mike Anderson has been mentioned in several news reports as a candidate to replace Mark Gottfried as the coach at Alabama after Gottfried resigned on Monday. [ 01/28/09 ]

Learning on the fly
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Marcus Denmon would appreciate an uneventful game tonight at Bramlage Coliseum, where the Missouri basketball team tips off against Kansas State. [ 01/28/09 ]

MU BASKETBALL PODCAST [ 01/26/09 ]

Steve Walentik’s Big 12 basketball notes [ 01/26/09 ]

MU makes believers
By JOE WALLJASPER Tribune sports editor
The Texas Tech basketball team prepared for Missouri’s full-court press by scrimmaging against seven defenders, including two team managers. [ 01/25/09 ]

Tigers follow Carroll’s lead
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Mike Anderson was looking for leadership. Two weeks ago, his Missouri basketball team was coming off a loss to an undersized Nebraska squad after inexplicably falling behind by as many as 18 points early in the second half, and the coach wanted to see somebody accept some blame, take charge and lead the Tigers on a turnaround. [ 01/25/09 ]

Slide Show: Missouri 97, Texas Tech 86 [ 01/24/09 ]

MU runs winning streak to four
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune's staff
Texas Tech became the latest visitors to be mowed down by the Missouri basketball team at Mizzou Arena. DeMarre Carroll scored 27 points, and J.T. Tiller had a career-high seven steals to help the Tigers claim a 97-86 victory over the Red Raiders this afternoon in front of a season-high crowd of 13,357. [ 01/24/09 ]

Knight will not go gentle
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
The frustration is piling up for Pat Knight midway through his first full season in charge of the Texas Tech basketball program. [ 01/24/09 ]

An athlete with class
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
When Carol Anderson meets with her colleagues in academia, the Missouri history professor sometimes mentions Alyssa Hollins. [ 01/23/09 ]

By the skin of their teeth
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
STILLWATER, Okla. - The final score read Missouri 97, Oklahoma State 95. [ 01/22/09 ]

MU women misfire on road
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
AMES, Iowa - Alyssa Hollins carved through the heart of Iowa State’s defense and kicked the ball out to the wing, where Bekah Mills swished an open 3-pointer. [ 01/22/09 ]

SLIDE SHOW: Missouri 97, Oklahoma State 95 [ 01/22/09 ]

Best under pressure
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Travis Ford thrives on pressure. Always has. Norm Stewart remembers paying the Oklahoma State coach a visit at his home in Madisonville, Ky., back in the late 1980s, when Ford was a 5-foot-9 point guard prospect. [ 01/21/09 ]

Steve Walentik’s Big 12 basketball notes [ 01/19/09 ]

Forget-me-nots
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
All Greg McDermott had to do was glance at the season statistics to know his Iowa State basketball team was going to have a difficult time matching up with Missouri when it visited Columbia yesterday. [ 01/18/09 ]

Tigers still hard to read
By JOE WALLJASPER Tribune sports editor
Ask displaced Missouri basketball fans on either coast how the team looks this year, and they’ll blister your ears. After watching the two nationally televised games on ESPN2 - dreadful losses to Illinois and Nebraska - they’ve seen a team without a go-to player in a pinch, a team that can’t shoot straight, a team that gets dragged into half-court games and can’t get out of them. [ 01/18/09 ]

Slide Show: Missouri 77, Iowa State 46 [ 01/17/09 ]

Tigers blow away Cyclones
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune's staff
The Missouri basketball team continued its rebound from last week’s discouraging loss at Nebraska by dominating Iowa State this afternoon at Mizzou Arena. [ 01/17/09 ]

Introduction to English
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Kim English could barely remember the pregame introductions, what it was like to have his name announced before Wednesday night’s tip-off against Colorado at Mizzou Arena. [ 01/17/09 ]

Seizing the moment
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
If there’s one thing Laurence Bowers has learned in his first college season, it’s that he never knows when he’s going to get an opportunity to prove his worth to the Missouri basketball team. [ 01/14/09 ]

Murphy’s law governs MU in Lawrence
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
LAWRENCE, Kan. - The Cliffs Notes version of the Missouri women’s 75-58 loss to Kansas last night might only need to feature one four-minute span midway through the second half. [ 01/14/09 ]

Slide Show: Missouri 107, Colorado 62 [ 01/14/09 ]

Leaders wanted: Apply within
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
For nearly two months, it had been a part of his refrain. [ 01/14/09 ]

Paul’s ties to NBA star questioned
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Miguel Paul’s player page in the Missouri basketball team’s media guide says that he is the first cousin of New Orleans Hornets superstar Chris Paul. [ 01/14/09 ]

Missouri’s Kansans go home
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
Kansas seemed like a good fit for Bailey Gee. [ 01/14/09 ]

Lyons suspended indefinitely in wake of traffic citations
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Leo Lyons won’t be suiting up for the Missouri basketball team when the Tigers take the floor against Colorado tomorrow night. [ 01/13/09 ]

Steve Walentik’s Big 12 basketball notes [ 01/12/09 ]

Starting ugly
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
LINCOLN, Neb. - It’d be easy to focus on the closing minutes of yesterday’s Big 12 Conference opener to find a reason for the Missouri basketball team’s 56-51 loss to Nebraska. [ 01/11/09 ]

Tigers get chilly reception in Big 12 opener
By JOE WALLJASPER Tribune sports editor
LINCOLN, Neb. - Entering Big 12 play, the Missouri basketball team’s road to the NCAA Tournament ran through the North Division snow belt of Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa State. Beat those plodding teams in their own buildings, and it would be hard to keep the Tigers out of the tournament. [ 01/11/09 ]

Slide Show: Nebraska 56, Missouri 51 [ 01/10/09 ]

Huskers feel no need for speed
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Mike Anderson likes to claim his team plays the Fastest Forty Minutes in Basketball. That’s how he advertised it when he was the head coach at Alabama-Birmingham, and he’s re-applied the phrase to Missouri this season. [ 01/10/09 ]

Steve Walentik's Big 12 basketball capsules [ 01/09/09 ]

Tigers on the rise
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
A perplexed look came over the faces of Missouri basketball players Matt Lawrence, DeMarre Carroll and Keith Ramsey as Terry Moore spoke up last night in the interview room at Mizzou Arena. [ 01/07/09 ]

Missouri women surprise even themselves
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
Not since 2001 had the MU women’s basketball team seen a scoreboard bear such a one-sided early score, and Shakara Jones could scarcely believe it. [ 01/07/09 ]

Lawrence lights up Coppin State
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune's staff
A crowd of 7,244 had plenty to cheer about tonight at Mizzou Arena as the Missouri basketball team closed out its nonconference schedule in style with a 88-55 victory over Coppin State. [ 01/06/09 ]

Critics don’t bother Lawrence
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
If you visit one of the Internet message boards devoted to Missouri basketball after a cold shooting night by senior guard Matt Lawrence, odds are you’ll find no shortage of posters expressing a preference for somebody else to start in his place. [ 01/06/09 ]

MU BASKETBALL PODCAST [ 01/05/09 ]

All bad things must end
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
ATHENS, Ga. - This was a victory the Missouri basketball team had been waiting more than five years to get. Not since Dec. 6., 2003, when they topped Indiana in Bloomington, had the Tigers gone on the road against a team outside the Big 12 and come away with a win. That eight-game losing streak ended yesterday with an 83-76 victory over Southeastern Conference foe Georgia in front of 8,060 spectators at Stegeman Coliseum. [ 01/04/09 ]

Big swat, no sweat
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
ATHENS, Ga. - Mike Anderson is always looking for someone on his bench to lift the intensity level of his Missouri basketball team, and Keith Ramsey was that player yesterday in the Tigers’ 83-76 victory over Georgia. [ 01/04/09 ]

Slide Show: Missouri 83, Georgia 76 [ 01/03/09 ]

Tigers pick up long-awaited road win against Georgia
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune's staff
ATHENS, Ga. — This was a victory the Missouri basketball team had been waiting more than five years to get. [ 01/03/09 ]

A victory would be peachy
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Mike Anderson wants his Missouri basketball players to treat every game the same, but J.T. Tiller can’t help feeling a little more excited about today’s contest. [ 01/03/09 ]

Don’t get comfortable
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
J.T. Tiller and the rest of the Missouri basketball team’s starters thought their night was over as they sat on the bench in their warm-up jerseys with 10 minutes left in an 80-52 victory over Centenary at Mizzou Arena. [ 12/31/08 ]

MU leans on starters to top Centenary
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune's staff
With the start of the Big 12 Conference schedule less than two weeks away, Mike Anderson had hoped to start seeing more consistency from his reserves. [ 12/30/08 ]

Slide Show: Missouri 80, Centenary 52 [ 12/30/08 ]

Backups continue to get it done for Tigers
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
The players from Southern Illinois-Edwardsville might have hoped the Missouri basketball team was letting up a bit after jumping out to a quick 12-5 lead in Saturday afternoon’s game at Mizzou Arena. [ 12/30/08 ]

Break doesn’t slow Tigers
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
Missouri’s players headed home for Christmas on a five-game winning streak and heartened by a season revived. [ 12/30/08 ]

Tigers regain control of runaway year
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
Few would have been stunned a month ago had the Missouri women’s basketball season unraveled beyond repair. [ 12/29/08 ]

Tigers on the rebound
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Mike Anderson spent Christmas night inside Mizzou Arena, putting his Missouri basketball players through a nearly three-hour practice in what was an important first step in putting the disappointment of Tuesday night’s Braggin’ Rights loss to Illinois behind them.  [ 12/28/08 ]

Slide Show: MU 107, SIUE 57  [ 12/27/08 ]

Tigers lost without him
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Missing from the Missouri basketball team’s motion offense in a humbling loss to Illinois on Tuesday was the motion that had made it so difficult to defend earlier in the season. [ 12/27/08 ]

Humbled, by all Rights
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
ST. LOUIS - Much of the talk around the Missouri basketball team in the lead-up to last night’s Braggin’ Rights game was of the new level of confidence the players had acquired since last season. [ 12/24/08 ]

Tale of the century: Illinois beats Missouri
By JOE WALLJASPER Tribune sports editor
ST. LOUIS - The last time the Missouri basketball team beat Illinois, we were stocking our Y2K shelters for the impending end of computer-assisted society. Except for those pasty-skinned few who just emerged from their bunker, last night’s 75-59 loss to the Illini wasn’t a shocker. [ 12/24/08 ]

Slide Show: Illinois 75, Missouri 59 [ 12/23/08 ]

The bounce is back
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
ST. LOUIS - It’s been impossible not to notice the more positive vibe radiating from the Missouri basketball team in the past few weeks leading up to tonight’s Braggin’ Rights game against Illinois. [ 12/23/08 ]

MU BASKETBALL PODCAST [ 12/22/08 ]

Is eight enough?
By STEVE WALENTIK
As holiday traditions go, Missouri’s annual Braggin’ Rights game has been the equivalent of an unwanted fruitcake for the Tigers. By margins great and small, Missouri has found ways to lose since 2000. It’s no wonder that Quin Snyder remarked after the 2002 loss that it would be another “crummy Christmas.” [ 12/22/08 ]

Handing it to the Hatters
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
One of Matt Zimmerman’s responsibilities as an assistant coach on Mike Anderson’s staff is to fill out the Missouri basketball team’s schedule. With Anderson giving final approval, Zimmerman selects which teams the Tigers play on which dates, and greater importance is usually given to which opponents are added for the first game after a week-long layoff. [ 12/21/08 ]

SLIDE SHOW: Missouri 78, Stetson 44 [ 12/20/08 ]

Tigers overcome sluggish start, rout Stetson
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune's staff
The effects of a week off from competition were apparent to all of the 7,409 spectators who watched the Missouri basketball team’s game against Stetson tonight at Mizzou Arena. [ 12/20/08 ]

Waiting in the wings
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Marcus Denmon didn’t waste any time. The Kansas City-born shooting guard came right out and scored 15 points, dropping in 3 of 6 3-pointers, in the Missouri basketball team’s season-opening victory against Prairie View A&M on Nov. 15. [ 12/20/08 ]

Different line, similar result
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
The great unknown heading into this college basketball season was what impact the extended 3-point line would have on the game. [ 12/17/08 ]

MU BASKETBALL PODCAST [ 12/15/08 ]

Suffocating the Skyhawks
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
Alyssa Hollins could not remember being part of a defensive performance so dominating. And why would she? The senior guard was not born the last time Missouri’s women handled a team the way they did yesterday. [ 12/15/08 ]

A little more than they bargained for
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
To most people, last night’s game against Murray State figured to be nothing more than a rest stop for a Missouri basketball team streaking toward a highly anticipated Braggin’ Rights game. [ 12/13/08 ]

SLIDE SHOW: Missouri 75, Murray State 64 [ 12/13/08 ]

He puts some English on it
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
There’s an uncommon confidence about him that hits you right away when you meet Kim English. [ 12/13/08 ]

Empty spaces
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
It might have been the most complete game the Missouri basketball team has played since Mike Anderson took over the program in 2006. [ 12/11/08 ]

Looking on the bright side
By DAVID BRIGG of the Tribune’s staff
The Missouri women’s basketball team followed its most lopsided win in nearly two years with a bigger one last night at Mizzou Arena. [ 12/10/08 ]

Shared responsibility
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
He had a tough angle to shoot from after collecting Zaire Taylor’s pass along the baseline during a fast break in the second half of the Missouri basketball team’s game against California on Sunday afternoon. But without too much trouble, J.T. Tiller could have figured out a way to bank the ball in off the glass. [ 12/09/08 ]

Trying to recapture that winning feeling
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
Jessra Johnson declared she was done with basketball forever, ignored the post-game handshakes and walked off the floor after her fourth-grade team was eliminated from the Show-Me State Games. [ 12/09/08 ]

MU BASKETBALL PODCAST [ 12/08/08 ]

Tigers on the rise
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
A crowd of 8,130 spectators filed into Mizzou Arena yesterday afternoon for what was easily the most anticipated game of the Missouri basketball team’s nonconference home schedule. The 1 p.m. tip-off against California was supposed to give MU fans their first up-close look at how the Tigers could fare in a close game against a major-conference opponent. [ 12/08/08 ]

MU hoops showing signs of life
By JOE WALLJASPER Tribune sports editor
At long last, something good is brewing at Mizzou Arena. My impression after Missouri’s 93-66 victory over California is that this has the makings of a pretty good basketball team - just add fans. [ 12/08/08 ]

SLIDES SHOW: Missouri 93, Cal 66 [ 12/07/08 ]

Montgomery back home, only across the Bay
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Mike Montgomery’s new office isn’t much more than 40 miles away from the place he built his reputation as one of the premier coaches in college basketball. [ 12/07/08 ]

Lights come on for Tigers
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
The Missouri women were tired of playing it close. After their first six games remained contested deep into the second half, the Tigers wiped away any doubt in the opening minutes of a 70-50 victory over Toledo last night at Mizzou Arena. [ 12/04/08 ]

Freshmen get chance to shine vs. Lions
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
It had all looked so easy to Marcus Denmon. The 6-foot-3 freshman from Kansas City introduced himself to Missouri basketball fans by scoring 36 points in the Black & Gold scrimmage, sending their minds racing about the impact he could have in his first season. [ 12/03/08 ]

SLIDE SHOW: Missouri 95, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 41 [ 12/02/08 ]

Frosh starting to get his point across
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
The ball was in Miguel Paul’s hands when the Missouri basketball team needed a bucket on Sunday afternoon. [ 12/02/08 ]

MU BASKETBALL PODCAST [ 12/01/08 ]

Lyons, Carroll have senior moments in MU win
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Mike Anderson had to be feeling a little uneasy as he watched the clock tick below the eight-minute mark yesterday at Mizzou Arena. [ 12/01/08 ]

Second-half rally sparks MU women
By the Tribune’s staff
The Missouri women’s basketball team overcame an 11-point second-half deficit and beat Northwestern 69-63 yesterday in the White Invitational in Evanston, Ill. [ 12/01/08 ]

Lyons, Carroll too much for Oral Roberts
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Mike Anderson had to be feeling a little uneasy as he watched the clock tick below the 8-minute mark this afternoon at Mizzou Arena. [ 11/30/08 ]  

Sky’s the limit for Missouri’s do-it-all guard
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
J.T. Tiller had always seemed content to make his mark with his defense. In a high school all-star game in 2006, when the players around him were trying to wow the audience with their electric slam dunks, deep jumpers and crossover dribbles, he was the one trying to lock up his man and diving into passing lanes. [ 11/30/08 ]

Hoosiers hand MU women defeat with familiar script
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
The Missouri women’s basketball team will have little company and plenty to think about over the next few days this Thanksgiving week. [ 11/26/08 ]

MU BASKETBALL PODCAST [ 11/25/08 ]

A big splash for Missouri
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Mike Anderson said all along he wanted to see his Missouri basketball team improve over three games against high-level competition in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off. [ 11/24/08 ]

Reserves put nerves on bench
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Missouri basketball team’s newcomers seemed to learn a thing or two from Thursday’s loss to Xavier in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off. [ 11/24/08 ]

Tournament no day at the beach for MU
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - For much of its five days here in Puerto Rico’s capital city, site of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off, the Missouri basketball team might as well have been in Ames, Iowa. [ 11/23/08 ]

Getting off the pine and into the box score
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Gone were the nervous looks and the indecision that had them practically glued to floor only a day earlier against Xavier in the first round of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off. [ 11/22/08 ]

After foul start, Tigers rebound
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - It was obvious to anyone who witnessed the Missouri basketball team’s Puerto Rico Tip-Off game against Xavier yesterday. [ 11/21/08 ]

Missouri beats Fairfield on morning after
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Mike Anderson was a little worried about his Missouri basketball team’s ability to bounce back after yesterday’s hard-to-swallow loss against Xavier in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off. [ 11/21/08 ]

Tigers tumble without Tiller
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The collision was hard enough to knock him to the floor. It hit the Missouri basketball team even harder. [ 11/21/08 ]

It’s a working vacation
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
There’s no doubt the players have been looking forward to the warm weather and beaches of Puerto Rico since the Missouri basketball team’s inclusion in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off was announced. [ 11/19/08 ]

Tiger win an inside job
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
The timing of it should have made Missouri basketball Coach Mike Anderson a little nervous. [ 11/18/08 ]

Frosh have more ups than downs
By DAVID BRIGGS of the Tribune’s staff
Missouri’s press had forced the ball into the hands of Chattanooga’s big man. [ 11/18/08 ]

SLIDE SHOW: Missouri 103, Chattanooga 75 [ 11/18/08 ]

MU BASKETBALL PODCAST [ 11/17/08 ]

Thrown to the Lyons
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Leo Lyons looked every bit the part of the Missouri basketball team’s go-to player in Saturday’s 86-65 season-opening victory over Prairie View A&M. [ 11/17/08 ]

Dynamic debut
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
He’s a self-described pass-first point guard, but Miguel Paul came out shooting in his debut in a Missouri basketball uniform. [ 11/16/08 ]

SLIDE SHOW: Missouri 86, Prairie View A&M 65 [ 11/15/08 ]

What’s the difference?
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Matt Lawrence hasn’t hesitated to launch shots from well beyond the 3-point arc during his two seasons playing for Coach Mike Anderson. [ 11/15/08 ]

Dewitt signs with Tigers
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
The Missouri basketball program appears to have added a much needed big body to its 2009 recruiting class. [ 11/14/08 ]

Odd couple finds common ground
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Their playing styles are as distinct as the way they wear their hair.  [ 11/13/08 ]