COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association named Mizzou redshirt senior forward Jordan Frericks a candidate for the 2018 Katrina McClain Award on Thursday. The honor recognizes the top power forwards in Women’s Division 1 college basketball.

Frericks is one of 20 watch list candidates in the nation and one of just three SEC players on the list, joining Florida’s Haley Lorenzen and Georgia’s Caliya Robinson. Frericks is coming off a redshirt after a knee injury sidelined the Quincy, Illinois, native for the entire 2016-17 season, but the 6-foot-1 senior has been dominant when healthy.

In 2015-16, Frericks was named Second-Team All-SEC by coaches and honorable mention All-SEC by the Associated Press after averaging 12.1 points and 7.7 assists, while racking up 44 assists, 39 steals and 24 blocks. She became the 33rd member of Mizzou’s 1,000-Point Club, tied the eight-best single-season field goal percentage mark at 55.1 percent, scored in double figures in 21 games and recorded seven double-doubles.

In her most recent action against McKendree on Nov. 6 in the final game of exhibition play, Frericks picked up right where she left off, racking up nine points on 50 percent shooting while also collecting four defensive boards, four steals and two blocked shots in just 17 minutes. Frericks and the Tigers open regular season play this Friday at 2:30 p.m. CT as they take on Western Kentucky in the opening round of the Hawkeye Challenge.

The Selection Committee for the Katrina McClain Award is composed of top women’s college basketball personnel including media members, head coaches, sports information directors and Hall of Famers.

The list will be narrowed down to 10 in mid-February and then five finalists will be selected in March that will be presented to Katrina McClain and the selection committee. The winner of this award will be presented live at an inaugural awards ceremony hosted by the Basketball Hall of Fame, Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, and ESPN at the NCAA Women’s Final Four in Columbus, OH.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. – A statue of Mizzou’s Hall of Fame men’s basketball coach Norm Stewart will be dedicated on Friday, Nov. 10, at 1:30 p.m. on the Walsworth Family All-American Plaza on the north side of Mizzou Arena.

The statue, which was funded by private donations, will honor Stewart’s 39-year association with his alma mater as a student-athlete, assistant coach, and head coach of Mizzou Basketball from 1967 through 1999. He won more than 630 games in his Hall of Fame career while guiding Mizzou to 16 of its 26 all-time NCAA Tournament appearances and 19 Big 8 Conference championships (eight regular-season titles, six postseason tournament crowns and five holiday tournament championships). All-told, his Mizzou teams played in the postseason 22 times and won 20-or-more games in 20 seasons.

The dedication program, hosted by former Voice of the Tigers John Rooney, will include remarks from Bobby Cremins, representing Coaches Vs. Cancer, Mizzou Director of Athletics Jim Sterk, University of Missouri Chancellor Dr. Alex Cartwright, two-time Big 8 Player of the Year Doug Smith on behalf of Coach Stewart’s players, and Stewart.

The statue was created by world-class sculpture and St. Louis native Harry Weber, who has commissioned the statue of former Mizzou football coach Don Faurot, which is located at the north end of Memorial Stadium, as well as the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame’s Legends Walkway.

The dedication is free and open to the public. Fans interested in attending should park in lots around Mizzou Arena, however, they must remove their cars immediately following the dedication.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Women’s Basketball head coach Robin Pingeton announced the signing of Iowa native Grace Berg. Berg, a 6-foot explosive scorer from Indianola, Iowa, inked a National Letter of Intent to play for Mizzou on Wednesday.

“I chose Mizzou because I love the coaches and Mizzou feels like a second home to me,” Berg said. “I felt that Mizzou was the best fit for me.”

Berg is No. 37 in the nation and No. 2 in the state of Iowa in espnW’s 2018 HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings. She is a two-time Class 5A Iowa Girls Coaches Association First Team All-State honoree and three-time state tournament qualifier. Entering her senior campaign, she has already racked up 1,276 career points, 575 career rebounds, 161 career assists and 184 career steals.

As a junior, Berg averaged 20.4 points and 10 rebounds per game while leading Indianola High School to a 24-1 record and a No. 1 ranking for the majority of the season. She garnered First Team All-Little Hawkeye Conference and Newspaper Association First Team All-State recognition. In postseason play, Berg set the 5A single-game state tournament scoring record with a career-high 36 points in Indianola’s quarterfinal win.

In 2015-16, Berg was the Class 5A Iowa state leader in field goal percentage, shooting a scorching 63.6 percent. She also led all classes in the state in field goal percentage during her freshman season as she shot 68.3 percent from the field.

As a sophomore, she poured in 17.3 points per game and added 7.0 rebounds and 3.2 steals per contest. She was a unanimous First Team CIML Metro Division selection following both her freshman and sophomore campaigns.

Berg is also a standout runner, competing and succeeding at a high level in both cross country and track & field. She is a three-time individual state qualifier in cross country and holds the 5K school record with a time of 19:07. Additionally, last spring, she helped her 4×800-meter relay team place sixth overall at the Iowa State Track & Field Championships.

Berg boasts a 3.7 GPA. She is a member of Indianola’s National Honor Society and has received Academic All-Conference recognition every season in each of the three sports she has lettered in.

Mizzou Women’s Basketball opens the 2017-18 season at the Hawkeye Challenge on Friday as the Tigers take on Western Kentucky at 2:30 p.m. CT in Iowa City, Iowa.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Arena will be rowdy and packed to the rafters for the first season of the Cuonzo Martin era, as Mizzou Men’s Basketball season tickets for 2017-18 are officially sold out, the athletic department announced Tuesday.

“The response from Mizzou fans and the excitement here in Columbia and around the state of Missouri has been outstanding,” Martin said. “Our home court advantage has the potential to be tremendous, so we’ll need Mizzou fans night in and night out. Whether it’s a Saturday in December or a Tuesday night in February, our program will work to do its part. We can’t wait to see you all there with us every step of the way.”

Mizzou Arena holds 15,061 fans, and Mizzou Athletics has sold 15,600 season tickets to date, including 6,028 student combo tickets which are good for both Tiger men’s basketball and football games.

The Tigers’ 2017-18 public season ticket sales total of 9,572 is a Mizzou Arena record, and an increase of nearly 4,000 tickets over last year’s final total of 5,802. Mizzou’s student season ticket total of 6,028 is double last year’s total of 3,008 and marks the most sold since the 2013-14 campaign when 6,816 student tickets were purchased. Mizzou Arena’s last sold-out men’s basketball game was for the Tigers’ 93-63 victory over Arkansas, March 5, 2013.

“We are looking forward to seeing the excitement and energy at Mizzou Arena this season, and are extremely grateful for all Mizzou fans who have purchased season tickets for the upcoming season,” said Mizzou Director of Athletics Jim Sterk. “I am confident that our fans will provide the Tigers with a tremendous home court advantage this winter.”

Historically, Mizzou Athletics has over-sold student seating at men’s basketball games, dating back to when the Tigers played in the Hearnes Center, due to a high no-show rate among student ticket purchasers. Student tickets will be available to claim online at www.mutigers.com/students approximately one week before home games and once all 4,000 tickets are claimed, the window will close and students will no longer be able to claim tickets.

The general public will have extremely limited opportunities to purchase single-game tickets when unclaimed visiting team or Mizzou student tickets are returned to the Mizzou Ticket Office. Mizzou Fans looking for single-game tickets are encouraged to visit MizzouPass.com on their mobile devices, or select “Mizzou Pass” from within the “Mizzou Tigers” app. In the event of returned tickets becoming available, Mizzou Pass enrollees will receive text notification and directions on how to quickly purchase tickets from their mobile device.

Fans checking the secondary market for Mizzou Men’s Basketball tickets are encouraged to use Vivid Seats, the official resale marketplace of Mizzou Athletics. The best place to purchase and resell Mizzou tickets is at VividSeats.com, where sales and purchases are 100 percent guaranteed.

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