No. 21 Men’s Basketball renews rivalry with Oklahoma Wednesday

No. 21/22 University of Missouri Men’s Basketball renews his rivalry with Oklahoma on Wednesday night. Schools meet for the first time as a SEC enemies in Mizzou Arena with a Tipoff on the SEC network.



Campaigns
• Wednesday is military appreciation evening.



About the tigers
• Mizzou is ranked No. 21 in the AP vote and No. 22 in the US Today Coaches Poll.
• After dropping a few games last week to two top-10 teams (with a combined seven points), the tigers are now 17-6 overall and 6-4 in SEC games.
• Senior Tamar Bates leading three tigers in double -digit score with 14.0 points, followed by Caleb Grill (12.6) and Mark Mitchell (12.3).
• Josh Gray have a team best 5.3 rebounds while Anthony Robinson II leads MU with 3.3 assists.
• Mizzou is 23. National with a scoring violation of 82.4 and 17. With a scoring margin of +13.2.



About they soon
• Oklahoma owns a 16-7 record in 2024-25 with a 3-7 mark against SEC enemies.
• The Sooners lost a few games last week to top-five enemies, dropped to No. 1 Auburn and No. 4 Tennessee.
• Jalon Moore leads Oklahoma with 17.7 points and 5.7 rebounds per day. Match.
• Jeremiah fears is number two with 15.5 points to go with a team best 4.0 assists.
• The soon -to -be 78.5 points per Battle while allowing 71.7 defensively.



Renewing a rivalry
• Wednesday’s Matchup renews a rivalry between the Tigers and Soners, dating from 1916.
• The schools were conference enemies from 1919 in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association for 2012 when MU left Big 12.
• Wednesday’s SEC Matchup marks the sixth different conference the teams have been exposed to in – MVIAA, BIG SIX, BIG SEVEN, BIG EIGHT, BIG 12 AND NOW SEC.
• Overall, the schools have met 212 times on the field, making Oklahoma Tigers’ fifth most frequented opponent.



Series history
• In general, Oklahoma has a 115-97 edge in the series for all the time.
• MU is 61-29 in 90 matchups in Como and won the last six home matches against The Sooners (last Oklahoma victory was in the Hearnes Center in 2001).
• The teams meet for the first time since the 2021 NCAA tournament when eighth seed Oklahoma defeated the ninth seed Mizzou, 72-68.
• Overall, the schools have met three times since 2012, when Soners won all three matches.



Family rivalry
• Family pricing rights are on the line on Wednesday.
• White Family Main Trainer Dennis Gates is ready to meet his brother, Armon, who is in his second season as assistant coach with The Soners.
• The brothers have met twice before – Armon won both meetings in 2009 as an assistant in Kent State over Northern Illinois with Dennis as assistant coach at Huskies.



Head of the package
• Senior Tamar Bates Be sure to finish on top and play his best basketball to lead Mizzou.
• Bates has led the team to score in four of the last five games and match the amount of times he did it in the first 18 competitions of the season.
• Overall, average the Senior Guard on average a team-best 16.1 points over the last nine competitions-slip 50.0 percent off the field and 44.7 percent from 3-point reach (21-47).
• Bates now has a team of best 14.0 points per day. Fight leading Mizzou in point eight times.



Three points of meaning
• Turning their shots from Beyond the ARC has been a key to success for the tigers this season.
• In the team’s 17 wins, Mizzou has made 40.3 percent of his 3-point trials and 9.9 per year. Match.
• In his six defeats, however, MU has made only 28.6 percent of its triple and 6.3 per year. Match.
• Overall, Tigers are 13-1 this season with eight or more triple in a game, but only 4-5 with seven and fewer.



Let him grill
• The most important player for the tigers to get started is senior Caleb Grill.
• To play in 18 games this season, barbecue is an average of 12.6 points per year. Match, which leads Mizzou with 51 made triple and a 3-point clip of 47.7 percent.
• Grill has played its best in the team’s winnings this season – leading MU with 15.5 points in wins, but only 5.0 in defeat.
• Mizzou is a perfect 9-0 this season when Grill scores at least 12 points in a game (4-5 when he was held during a dozen in play he played).



Approaching a career milestone
• Mark Mitchell is within reach of a milestone.
• The junior enters Wednesday’s match with 984 points and is 16 shy at 1,000 for his career.
• Mitchell appears to be the fifth current tiger to reach the milestone (Marques WarrickAt Tony PerkinsAt Tamar Bates and Caleb Grill).