Key dates, opponents to know on Missouri basketball’s 2024-25 season schedule

Seems like a good time for a hoops interlude.

While Missouri football is on its second idle week of the season (and after a blowout loss at Alabama), Missouri basketball will get its 2024-25 campaign underway.

Missouri has already hit the court in the 2024-25 season, defeating Division-II Lincoln in an exhibition, 90-45, last Saturday at Mizzou Arena. There are 11 new faces on coach Dennis Gates’ team, including headliner Mark Mitchell, who scored 22 points against Lincoln in his first game, albeit an exhibition, since transferring from Duke.

Here are the key opponents and dates to know on the Missouri basketball schedule this season:

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Can Missouri basketball win opener at Memphis on Monday, break slump?

Missouri basketball is still, technically, in a slump. The Tigers haven’t won a game this calendar year, a stretch that runs 19 games and dates back to the beginning of SEC play in the 2023-24 campaign.

MU will get its first chance to end the slide on Monday, Nov. 4, but it will come in a tricky road environment at Memphis.

Memphis has had a peculiar offseason. Head coach Penny Hardaway fired four staffers less than two months ago, including assistant coach Rick Stansbury. That followed the school announcing it had received an anonymous letter alleging multiple major NCAA violations committed by the school in recent years.

Nevertheless, Memphis shapes up to be a contender the AAC title and for an NCAA Tournament berth with a seven-player transfer portal class that 247Sports ranks as the 11th best in the country.

Memphis’ Jordan Brown goes for a hook shot over Missouri’s defense during a college basketball game at Mizzou Arena on Nov. 10, 2023, in Columbia, Mo.

When is Missouri’s home opener?

When Mizzou gets back from Memphis, Gates’ team is at home for the long haul.

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Author : Columbia Daily Tribune

Publish date : 2024-10-30 08:04:00

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