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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 the Year award. Clarkson, who has played for the Los Angeles Lakers and Cavaliers in addition to the J...

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-base hits and 12 RBI over that time. All-world freshman Jenna Laird was named Freshman of the Year, Fi...

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 shooting 54.3 percent from the field and 37 percent from beyond the arc. Prior to entering the porta...

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’s a very technical term. Let’s check out her stats, according to MUTigers.com’s press release a...