Mizzou men’s basketball begins its holiday week with a home contest against South Carolina State on Tuesday night. Tipoff at Mizzou Arena is scheduled for 7 p.m. on SEC Network+.
Publicity
• Tuesday’s game is Character Night. Paw Patrol’s Spiderman, Blue, Bingo and Chase will all be at the main entrance of Mizzou Arena to welcome kids celebrating the Thanksgiving break.
• Loup Rollins will also perform at halftime.
about tigers
• Missouri is 6-0 in its first six games of the season.
• MU is coming off a 102-68 win over South Dakota on Thursday. Six players scored in double figures, leading 22 players mark mitchell,
• Overall, Mitchell leads MU with 18.7 points, while ranking second with 6.2 rebounds and 3.0 assists.
• Five Tigers scoring in double figures jaden stone (13.3), jacob cruz (13.0), Anthony Robinson II (12.8) and sebastian mack (10.5) after Mitchell’s lead.
, Shawn Phillips Jr. Mizzou leads the way with 7.5 boards, while Robinson has a team-best 3.7 assists.
• The Tigers are averaging 93.2 points per game in 2025-26 — shooting 57.6 percent from the field and 45.0 percent from 3-point range.
About Bulldog
• South Carolina State is looking for its first win, entering Tuesday’s game with an 0-6 record.
• The Bulldogs are coming off a one-point loss at South Dakota on Sunday, 82-81.
• Owen Bronston Jr. leads the Bulldogs with 12.5 points, while Cameron Clark is second with 12.0 points to go with a team-best 5.3 rebounds.
• The Bulldogs are averaging 64.5 points per game, while allowing 86.5.
History of the series
• The schools are meeting for the third time and Mizzou has won each of the last two.
• The teams last met in 2024 with Mizzou winning 82-59. Sean East II led MU with 21 points, while Mizzou added a school-record 12 blocks.
mizzou vs meac
• Missouri’s all-time record versus MEAC schools is 19–3.
• Tuesday’s game is Mizzou’s second versus the conference this season as it opened the year with an 88-67 win at Howard.
nearing a milestone
• Graduate jacob cruz Fast approaching a career milestone.
• Cruz entered Tuesday’s game with 997 career points, just three short of 1,000 for his career.
• Cruz will be the third active Tiger to reach this feat mark mitchell (1,271 career points) and jevon porter (1,152).
efficient double-double
• senior jevon porter Playing his best in black and gold.
• Against South Dakota, Porter recorded his first double-double as a Tiger with 19 points and 12 boards, making all nine of his field goals in the win.
• Porter had the best shooting day by a Tiger since Amari Davis made 10 of 10 shots at Ole Miss in 2022.
• Porter is the first Tiger to shoot 100 percent from the field and record a double-double since Ricardo Ratliff did so against Oklahoma in 2012.
• Overall, Porter is averaging 8.2 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game this season.
Initial national rank
• The Tigers have wasted no time finding their shooting touch in 2025-26.
• MU is making 57.6 percent of its field goals this season with a 3-point clip of 45.0 percent.
• In fact, Mizzou currently ranks second nationally with its 57.6 percent overall clip and fifth with its 3-point percentage of 45.0.
Hot shooting paves the way
• The key to the Tigers’ ranking among the nation’s best shooters is their consistency
• Mizzou has assumed 50 percent shooting in all six of its games in 2025-26.
• This marks the Tigers’ longest streak to start a season since a seven-game streak to start the 1982–83 campaign and its longest streak in any part of the season since 2011–12.
• Overall, MU is one of only five schools (out of 365) to shoot at least 50 percent in every game this year.
50 percent or better
• As Mizzou continues to make 50 percent of its field goals, it has continued its winning streak.
• The 50 percent mark is almost a guaranteed win for the Tigers as MU is now 36-1 under Coach Gates, including 18-0 since the start of the 2024-25 season.
leave no stone unturned
• After being out of the game for more than a year due to injury, jaden stone He has not disappointed in his first six games as a Tiger.
• Stone is second on Mizzou with 13.3 points, scoring at least a dozen points in all six games.
• The transfer is the first Mizzou player to score in double figures in the first six games of his MU career since Jordan Clarkson did it in his first 24 games in 2013–14.
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