The Mizzou men’s basketball begins the Holiday week with a home contest against South Carolina State on Tuesday night. Tipoff at Mizzou Arena is set for 7 p.m. on SEC Network+.
PROMOTIONS
• Tuesday’s game is Character Night. Spiderman, Bluey, Bingo and Chase from Paw Patrol will all be at the main entrance of Mizzou Arena to greet kids as they celebrate Thanksgiving break.
• Loop Rawlins will also perform at halftime.
ABOUT THE TIGERS
• Missouri is a perfect 6-0 through its first six games of the season.
• MU is coming off a victory over South Dakota on Thursday, posting a 102-68 win. Six players scored in double figures, led by 22 from Mark Mitchell.
• Overall, Mitchell leads MU with 18.7 points, while ranking second with 6.2 rebounds and 3.0 assists.
• Five Tigers are scoring in double figures with Jayden Stone (13.3), Jacob Crews (13.0), Anthony Robinson II (12.8) and Sebastian Mack (10.5) following Mitchell’s lead.
• Shawn Phillips Jr. leads Mizzou 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 THE BULLDOGS
• South Carolina State is in search of its first win, entering Tuesday’s game with a 0-6 record.
• The Bulldogs are coming off a one-point defeat at South Dakota, 82-81, on Sunday.
• 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.
SERIES HISTORY
• The schools are meeting for just the third time with Mizzou winning each of the previous two.
• The teams last met in 2024 with Mizzou posting an 82-59 win. Sean East II led MU with 21 points, while Mizzou added a school-record 12 blocks.
MIZZOU VERSUS MEAC
• Missouri owns a 19-3 all-time record versus MEAC schools.
• Tuesday’s game is the second for Mizzou versus the conference this season as it opened the year with an 88-67 win at Howard.
NEARING A MILESTONE
• Graduate Jacob Crews is quickly approaching a career milestone.
• Crews enters Tuesday’s game with 997 career points, just three shy of 1,000 for his career.
• Crews would be the third active Tiger to reach the milestone, joining Mark Mitchell (1,271 career points) and Jevon Porter (1,152).
EFFICIENT DOUBLE-DOUBLE
• Senior Jevon Porter is coming off his best game in the Black & 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 shot 10-of-10 at Ole Miss in 2022.
• Porter is the first Tiger to shoot 100 percent from the field and record a double-double since Ricardo Ratliffe did so in 2012 against Oklahoma.
• Overall, Porter is tallying 8.2 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game this season.
EARLY NATIONAL RANKS
• The Tigers have not wasted any of 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 LEADS THE WAY
• The key to the Tigers ranking among the nation’s best shooters is their consistency
• Mizzou has eclipsed 50 percent shooting in all six of its games in 2025-26.
• It marks the Tigers’ longest streak to start a season since a seven-game run to begin the 1982-83 campaign and its longest run in any stretch of a season since 2011-12.
• Overall, MU is one of just five schools (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 continues to pile up the wins.
• The 50 percent mark is almost a guaranteed win for the Tigers as MU is now 36-1 under Coach Gates when hitting the mark, including 18-0 since the start of the 2024-25 season.
LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED
• After missing more than a year of action due to injury, Jayden Stone has not disappointed in his first six games as a Tiger.
• Stone ranks second on Mizzou with 13.3 points, scoring at least a dozen 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 so in his first 24 games in 2013-14.
