Remaining 2014 Mizzou Football season tickets will go on sale to the public beginning Thursday, July 10th at 6 p.m. (central time), with online-only sales that evening at www.mutigers.com/buytickets.  The next morning, Friday, July 11th, beginning at 8 a.m., fans may also purchase season tickets by phone (1-800-CAT-PAWS or 884-PAWS in mid-Missouri), in person at the Mizzou Arena ticket office, or online.

Fans will have the ability to purchase reserved tickets in available sections (including the new East side upper level), and for the first time, purchase season tickets for the Rock M north hill area.  Rock M season tickets are only $189 for all seven home games, while supplies last.  Tickets on the hill are considered general admission, so no specific seats are assigned.  Rock M season ticket holders are not eligible to receive priority access to parking, postseason ticket offers or other benefits that traditionally are afforded to reserved-seat season ticket holders.

2014 Tiger Scholarship Fund members and current football season ticket holders will have the first opportunity to purchase season tickets on the Rock M hill beginning Tuesday, July 8th at 6 p.m., online at www.mutigers.com/myaccount.

Mizzou Athletics is in the process of finalizing renewals and additional ticket requests from 2013 season ticket holders, as well as those who registered for new season tickets on the request list.  Beginning Thursday, July 10th, all fans will have the opportunity to select seats and purchase tickets from available season ticket inventory.  All orders are subject to availability.

Mizzou will once again play one of the top home schedules in the Southeastern Conference in 2014.  The non-conference home slate is highlighted by visits from American Athletic Conference and Fiesta Bowl Champion, Central Florida, and Big 10 Conference upstart Indiana.  The season kicks off on August 30th against South Dakota State.  The SEC home schedule welcomes Eastern Division foes Georgia, Vanderbilt and Kentucky, before a season-ending appointment with border rival Arkansas.

Home non-conference individual game tickets will go on sale to all 2014 Tiger Scholarship Fund members and to all 2014 football season ticket holders beginning Thursday, July 24th at 6 p.m. online only at www.mutigers.com.  Any remaining single-game non-conference tickets will be made available to the public for online orders only, beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 25th.  Beginning Monday, July 28th, fans can also order non-conference individual game tickets by calling 1-800-CAT-PAWS (884-PAWS in mid-Missouri) or in person at the Mizzou Arena ticket office, as well as online.

If available, SEC home individual game tickets will first be offered to all 2014 Tiger Scholarship Fund members, and then to all 2014 football season ticket holders during the week of August 4th.  If tickets remain available past that, these will then be offered to the public on Tuesday, August 12th.  Specific details will be released at a later date.

The only way to guarantee a seat for the upcoming season is to purchase season tickets.

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Mizzou Football has been recognized by the Southeastern Conference as a recipient of the seventh annual SEC Sportsmanship Award. The league additionally honored Tennessee men’s basketball, Georgia equestrian and the women’s golf coaches of the SEC with the award.

The Tigers’ award comes after their outstanding 2013 season, prior to which unanimous All-American defensive Michael Sam shared with his Mizzou teammates and coaches his sexual orientation. The program supported his decision, whether to publicly announce or not, and respected his privacy.

Sam chose to focus on football and limit distractions for his teammates. He went onward into a senior season filled with on-field accolades, including SEC Defensive Player of the Year from the Associated Press.

The four SEC groups were chosen by a vote of the league’s Directors of Athletics. Mizzou and the Tennessee men’s basketball team tied for the male award, while the Bulldog equestrian team and the women’s golf coaches of the conference tied for the female honor.

“Sportsmanship, civility and social responsibility are marks of character that last a lifetime,” said SEC Commissioner Mike Slive.  “We are proud of these teams from Missouri, Tennessee and Georgia and the women’s golf coaches of the SEC for setting an example for us all.”

Head coach Gary Pinkel will lead Mizzou into its 2014 season-opener and start of its home schedule at Faurot Field against South Dakota State at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 30.

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The University of Missouri and Oklahoma State University announced on Monday that the former Big Seven, Big Eight and Big 12 rivals will meet once again on the basketball hardwood on Dec. 30, 2014, at Sprint Center in Kansas City. Game time and television information for the game will be announced at a later date.

Meeting for the 119th time in series history, Missouri owns a 77-41 advantage over the Cowboys. The two clubs last met at Sprint Center in 2012, with Mizzou grabbing an 88-70 win en route to the 2012 Big 12 Championship. It will mark the 15th meeting all-time in Kansas City between the Tigers and the Cowboys. The first meeting took place on Dec. 29, 1959, with Oklahoma State winning, 64-49, in the Big Eight Holiday Tournament. Overall Missouri owns a 9-5 series advantage in Kansas City.

“In joining the Southeastern Conference two years ago, we talked about our commitment to our fans throughout Missouri, and in particular, our fans in Kansas City,” Mizzou Director of Athletics Mike Alden said. “We have tremendous fan support in this part of the state, and it is critically important to us as a University to have a strong presence in Kansas City.  Athletics gives us an excellent opportunity to build on that presence, and we’re excited to host a major event in Kansas City once again this year.

Oklahoma State is a terrific program, and we look forward to partnering with them in what will be an exciting game. Mizzou and Oklahoma State have competed 118 times in a series that began in 1926, and this promises to be another exciting game.  We appreciate Mike Holder, Director of Athletics, and Travis Ford on working together with us.  It will be a great event and we hope to see more opportunities for partnerships in which we have a strong history of competition.”

Missouri is under the direction of first-year head coach Kim Anderson, who returns to his alma mater after winning the 2014 NCAA Division II National Championship at the University of Central Missouri. The Sedalia, Mo., native reached three Final Fours at UCM and was named the 2014 NABC National Coach of the Year. As a team, Missouri went 23-12 last season and advanced to the second round of the National Invitation Tournament. The Tigers return two starters in 2014-15, Johnathan Williams, III and Ryan Rosburg, and will welcome in a host of newcomers making their first trip to Sprint Center. Williams was one of the country’s top freshmen rebounders, averaging 5.8 points and 6.5 rebounds, while Rosburg made 32 starts and averaged 4.8 points and 4.1 rebounds. Sophomore point guard Wes Clark is also back after averaging 4.1 points and ranking second on the team with 70 assists.

Mizzou last played at Sprint Center on Nov. 16, 2013, defeating Hawaii 92-80. The Tigers have won six consecutive games at Sprint Center dating back to the 2011-12 season and own an 8-4 record in the facility overall.

“What a special game for the fans and former players of both universities,” Mizzou Head Coach Kim Anderson said. “I remember playing Oklahoma State in Kansas City twice while I was in school and those were two great games. Our two universities share great history with one another and conference affiliation isn’t going to change that fact. Obviously KC is very special to us and plays a major part in who we are as a university and as a basketball program. We have tremendous fans in the city and they know how committed we are to bringing Mizzou Basketball to Sprint Center as often as possible.”

Oklahoma State went 21-13 last season and made the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship for a second-straight season. OSU returns three players who started at least 10 games last season, including senior Le’Bryan Nash, a three-time All-Big 12 selection who averaged 13.9 points and 5.5 rebounds per game last season. Also returning is junior Phil Forte, co-winner of the Big 12’s inaugural Sixth Man Award a year ago. He is the league’s leading returner in both three-point shooting and free-throw shooting. Senior Michael Cobbins, who sat out the second half of last season due to an Achilles’ injury, has started 55 games in his career and ranks among the school’s top 10 career shot blockers.

“We are looking forward to playing Missouri at the Sprint Center in Kansas City,” OSU head coach Travis Ford said. “Oklahoma State has a long-standing history with the Tigers, having been conference rivals for more than half a century. We’ve had some thrilling games with Mizzou the past several seasons. It is also exciting to play an early season game in the same venue that hosts the Big 12 Championship. OSU has a lot of alumni and fans in the Kansas City area, and we hope this gives them an opportunity to catch the Cowboys in person. I have a great deal of respect for Coach Kim Anderson, and think he’ll continue the great tradition that they have at Missouri.”

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Kickoff time for the 2014 road opener for the University of Missouri football team at Toledo on Sept. 6th has been set for 11 a.m. (central time), and the game will be televised by either ABC, ESPN or ESPN2.

The game will feature the return of Mizzou Head Coach Gary Pinkel to the school where he coached prior to taking over the MU program in 2001.  Pinkel coached at Toledo from 1991-2000 and left as the school’s winningest coach, at 73-37-3 overall.  He was inducted into the Toledo athletic hall of fame in 2009.

Mizzou’s first three games for 2014 are now set with kick and TV times, as has the regular-season finale on Nov. 28th against Arkansas.  All remaining games will be determined on the 12-day/6-day advance selection process during the season.

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Columbia, Mo. – Mizzou Basketball Head Coach Kim Anderson announced yet another hire to his coaching staff on Monday as Matt Herring, formerly the Director of Athletic Performance with the National Basketball Association’s San Antonio Spurs, will direct the Athletic Performance efforts for Tiger Basketball.

Familiar with the college basketball ranks after directing Florida Basketball’s strength and conditioning program for seven seasons, including back-to-back NCAA National Championships in 2006 and 2007, Herring comes to Mizzou after two years in San Antonio (2011-13). The Spurs went 108-40 (.730) in those two seasons, advancing to the NBA Finals in 2013.

“This was a big coup for our program, not only because Matt is a highly respected coach that has trained some of the elite basketball players in the world, but because he will mentor and train our young men in every phase of life,” Anderson said. “Matt has coached and trained at the highest levels throughout his career and has the ability to get the most out of his teams. We are excited to welcome Matt and his family to Mizzou.”

The Austin, Texas, native joined the Spurs organization in 2011 after seven years with Billy Donovan at Florida (2004-11). He went to Gainesville in 2004 and two years later the Gators claimed their first of two consecutive NCAA titles.

“I appreciate Coach Anderson, Mike Alden and the Mizzou Administration for this tremendous opportunity,” Herring said. “I became very familiar with Missouri during my time growing up in Texas and my time working at Oklahoma State, and I have always had a tremendous amount of respect for the Athletics Department as a whole, as well as this university. We are very excited to get to town, get to work and become a part of the Mizzou and Columbia communities.”

Prior to his time at Florida, Herring spent two years leading the basketball strength and conditioning efforts at Oklahoma State and he was part of the Cowboys’ 2004 Final Four run. He also earned his graduate degree from Texas in 2002, learning from current Texas Strength and Conditioning coach, Todd Wright, before taking over at OSU.

Herring graduated from Southwest Texas in 1994. He and his wife Cindy have one daughter, Laney.

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Mizzou Football’s 2014 season-opener and start of its home schedule at Faurot Field will be televised nationally by ESPNU, with head coach Gary Pinkel and the Tigers facing South Dakota State at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 30.

Mizzou twice played on ESPNU during its impressive 2013 season, defeating Toledo (Sept. 7), 38-23, and winning at Kentucky (Nov. 9), 48-17. Both wins came during the Tigers’ second 12-win season in school history and second for Pinkel (2007).

The Tigers’ matchup vs. the Jackrabbits is the first in program history.

Mizzou’s full 2014 schedule can be found here, with season ticket requests currently being taken online here through the Mizzou Ticket Office. The ticket office can reached by phone at 1-800-CAT-PAWS or 573-884-PAWS (in Mid-Missouri).

Non-conference single game tickets will go on sale online July 24 (6 p.m.) for Tiger Scholarship Fund members and on July 25 (6 p.m.) for the general public. Accessible ticket requests can be made the next business day by phone (8 a.m.-5 p.m.). Reserved ticket prices are set at $49 for the SDSU game.

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Mizzou Football’s final 2014 regular season game vs. Arkansas has been moved to Friday, Nov. 28, with a 1:30 p.m. CT nationally televised kickoff on CBS. The visit from the Southeastern Conference foe is the Razorbacks’ first trip to Columbia since the 1906 season.

The Friday matchup between Mizzou and Arkansas is the first non-Thanksgiving Saturday game scheduled for the Tigers since the 1954 season, when legendary head coach Don Faurot’s team played at Maryland on Thanksgiving (Thursday, Nov. 25, 1954). The last home non-Thanksgiving Saturday game was on Thanksgiving in 1950, when Faurot’s group defeated Kansas, 20-6, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 1950.

Most recently, the Tigers defeated Arkansas in impressive fashion in the 2008 Cotton Bowl by a score of 38-7 (Jan. 1, 2008). The win finished off an impressive 2007 season for Mizzou and head coach Gary Pinkel, posting the first 12-win season in school history and reaching No. 1 in the polls.

Mizzou’s full 2014 schedule can be found here, with ticket information available here. The season gets underway on Saturday, Aug. 30, vs. South Dakota State at Faurot Field (kickoff TBA).

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