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Mizzou News for Wednesday, June 9

Jordan Clarkson is the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year Share this story Come to Mizzou, play basketball, win trophies. Haven’t we always said that? We haven’t? Maybe we should start. The power of positivity to speak things into existence and all that. Anyway, at least now we have some precedent to work with! After finally finding what seems to be a career-best fit in Salt Lake City, Jordan Clarkson capped arguably the best year of his professional career by winning the NBA’s Sixth Man of th...

Awards season is here, and the Missouri Tigers have bunch of Tigers found themselves honorees. Mizzou Athletics Brooke Wilmes and Casidy (one s, I think I’ve been spelling her name incorrectly all season, oops) Chaumont were both named Second Team All-SEC. From the MUTigers.com press release, Brooke leads Mizzou with 16 doubles and ranks in the SEC’s Top 15 in in hits, runs, RBI, doubles, total bases AND stolen bases. Casidy has five multi-hit games in SEC play and recorded nine extra-ba...

Welcome (Officially), Ronnie DeGray III Or Ronnie Three-Sticks. Or RG3. We here at Rock M like both of these nicknames, so we’ll allow either of them going forward. Ronnie made it official on Thursday afternoon, and joins the four-man transfer class — and five man freshman class — for the 21-22 season. While at UMASS, he started 14 of 15 games as a freshman in their COVID-shortened season, and averaged 27.4 minutes per game. The 6-foot-7 forward averaged 8.7 points and 4.6 rebounds while ...

In case you didn’t know. On Thursday, it was announced that shortstop Jenna Laird, who ranks 2nd in the SEC in batting average at .433 (and leads all freshmen), was named a finalist — one of 30 — for the NFCA Division I Freshman of the Year. Since COVID knocked out last season, any player who was a freshman in 2020 or 2021 is eligible for the award. Better start paying attention to #⃣3⃣❗️ It should come as no surprise that Laird was nominated given her awesomeness— yes, that�...

Softball Continues its Climb in Polls Share this story Mizzou Softball Continues its Ascent After a successful series win against Top 10 Arkansas, Mizzou continues to move up in the national polls, this time climbing four spots to No. 15 in the USA Today/NFCA poll and the USA Softball poll, and even higher in a few others! Highest ranking in @NFCAorg and @USASoftball polls since 2016! Eric Blum took a look at Mizzou’s elevated profile in his new piece for the Columbia Tribune, revealing that...

Softball smacks around Arkansas, moves into third place in SEC Share this story Put some respect on Mizzou Softball’s name! When we talk about Mizzou Sports, there’s usually one program we turn to first when discussing success amongst the non-revenues: wrestling. However, maybe it’s time we start considering softball as one of the two best programs at Mizzou. s macking top 10 Arkansas around 10-1, taking the series in Fayetteville and setting themselves up for a massive road sweep on Mond...

Survive and advance! Mizzou Volleyball gets it done! Starting off the 48-team NCAA Volleyball Tournament on Wednesday in Omaha, Nebraska — the Tigers defeated South Dakota in a three-set sweep by the score of 25-21, 25-17, and 25-15. Senior Kylie Deberg showed up big time, leading the team with 16 kills and 10 digs. FINAL: No. 25 #Mizzou volleyball beats South Dakota 3-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Kylie Deberg led the way with 16 kills and 10 digs. The Tigers will face No. 9...

Tiger Setters Kick Off NCAA Tourney Play Against Coyotes Share this story Volleyball set up for NCAA Tourney Joshua Taylor’s Tigers are set to begin what hopes to be an extended stay in Omaha at the NCAA Tournament when they face South Dakota, the Summit League champion, in the first round today at 11am. You can check out all the action on ESPN3. Practice day ☑ According to Eric Blum’s article in the Columbia Tribune, Missouri is the one of three SEC tourney teams, with Kentucky (no.2) an...

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