EXHIBITION KANSAS STATE vs. MISSOURI Friday, October 24, 2025 >> 9 p.m., CT >> Mizzou Arena (15,061) >> Columbia, Mo.
TELEVISION SEC Network (on-line
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- Kevin Fitzgerald (play-by-play)
- Tim Welsh (analyst)
- Walter Fields (producer)
RADIO
Okay-State Sports Network
Flagships: // KMAN 1350 & WIBW 580
Satellite Radio: none
Online: Varsity Network [free] / www.kstatesports.com/watch [free]
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COACHES
Okay-State: Jerome Tang [Charter Oak State College ’07]
Record at Okay-State: 61-42/4th Year
Career Record: 63-42*/third Year+
Exhibition Record: 5-1 [0-0 vs. Missouri]
Missouri: Dennis Gates [California ’01]
Record at Missouri: 55-46/4th Year
Career Record: 105-86/seventh Year
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Overall: Okay-State leads 75-21
Home: Okay-State leads 58-9
at Bramlage Coliseum: Okay-State leads 52-9
Road: Okay-State leads 10-7
Neutral: Okay-State leads 7-5
Okay-STATE PLAYS MISSOURI IN EXHIBITION OPENER
Okay-State will play the primary of two exhibition video games on Friday night time, because the Wildcats tackle previous convention foe Missouri at 9 p.m., CT at Mizzou Arena in Columbia, Mo. This is the primary time the faculties have met in an exhibition recreation after enjoying 237 instances between 1907 and 2018, principally as convention opponents within the Missouri Valley, Big Six, Big Seven, Big Eight and Big 12 Conferences. The colleges will meet once more for an exhibition recreation at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, Kan., previous to the 2026-27 common season.
Okay-State and Missouri have met twice as non-conference foes for the reason that finish of the convention sequence in 2012, each Wildcat victories. Okay-State received 66-42 on the Hall of Fame Classic on the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City on Nov. 23, 2015, then once more on the Paradise Jam within the U.S. Virgin Islands, 82-67, on Nov. 19, 2018. Overall, the Wildcats have received 5 straight within the common season sequence, together with a 78-68 victory within the final matchup at Mizzou Arena on Feb. 21, 2012.
This is simply the second time Okay-State is enjoying one other Division I faculty in an exhibition recreation and the primary for the reason that Wildcats defeated Missouri State, 78-62, on Oct. 21, 2017, which helped profit Hurricane Harvey, Irma and Maria reduction efforts.
Okay-State will wrap up its exhibition season on Friday, Oct. 31 when the Wildcats play host to Division II foe Newman at Bramlage Coliseum at 7 p.m., CT.
EXHIBITION INS AND OUTS
- Okay-State has been enjoying exhibitions for the reason that 1963-64 season when the Wildcats defeated the Peruvian National Team at Ahearn Field House. The faculty performed exhibitions on and off, together with its first worldwide tour in 1981, earlier than the NCAA regulated the apply by permitting colleges the power to schedule 2 exhibitions per season previous to the 1987-88 season.
- Okay-State has primarily performed the Kansas members of the MIAA since switching to Division II groups in exhibition play in 2004, which incorporates the 5 with Fort Hays State, 6 conferences with Emporia State, 8 with Washburn, 6 with Pittsburg State and 1 with Newman.
- Okay-State is 75-21 all-time in exhibition play relationship to 1964, together with a 58-9 file at residence. The Wildcats have a 52-9 file in exhibition play at Bramlage Coliseum.
- Okay-State performed only one public exhibition previous to the 2024-25 season, because the Wildcats posted a 70-56 win over Fort Hays State on Oct. 29, 2024. The staff held the Tigers to simply 25.7 % within the first half in leaping out to a 20-point lead, as then junior Brendan Hausen led 4 gamers in double figures with a game-high 15 factors.
- Okay-State has received 30 consecutive exhibition video games at Bramlage Coliseum since a 70-68 win over Global Sports on Nov. 15, 2003. During the summer season of 2023, the Wildcats noticed their 11-game exhibition streak finish with an 83-81 loss to Team Mexico throughout its 10-day journey to Israel and Abu Dhabi.
A Okay-STATE WIN WOULD…
- Be the primary exhibition win over Missouri.
- Extend its successful streak in exhibition play to three video games.
- Extend exhibition file to 76-21.
NOTES ON MISSOURI
- Led by fourth-year head coach Dennis Gates, Missouri received 22 video games and superior to the NCAA Tournament in 2025-26, making a 14-game win enchancment from the earlier season. The Tigers completed in a tie for sixth place within the SEC with a 10-8 mark.
- Missouri returns 6 gamers from final season, together with 3 with beginning expertise in senior Mark Mitchell, junior Anthony Robinson II and junior Trent Pierce. Mitchell began all 33 video games and led the Tigers in scoring at 13.9 factors on 50.5 % capturing with averages of 4.7 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.0 steals in 27.8 minutes per recreation. Robinson was the staff’s help chief at 3.5 per recreation to go together with 9.0 factors per recreation whereas beginning in 31 video games, whereas Pierce averaged 6.7 factors and three.2 rebounds with 19 begins.
- The Tigers welcome a variety of newcomers together with UCLA’s Sebastian Mack (5.4 ppg., 5.2 rpg.), Arizona State’s Shawn Phillips Jr. (5.4 ppg., 5.2 rpg.), West Virginia’s Jayden Stone (injured in 2024-25) and Loyola Marymount’s Jevon Porter (12.5 ppg., 7.2 rpg.).
- Missouri is likely one of the tallest groups within the nation with eight gamers 6-foot-9 or taller, together with a pair of 7-footers in Trent Burns (7-5) and Shawn Phillips Jr. (7-0).
- Missouri was one among highest scoring groups within the nation at 83.6 factors on 48.2 % capturing, together with 36.7 % from 3-point vary, whereas permitting 73.6 factors on 44.6 % capturing. The Tigers averaged 8.7 made 3-pointers per recreation with 6 gamers with 20 or extra made triples. They related on 73 % from the free throw line.
- Gates has a 105-86 file in his seventh season as a head coach, together with a 55-46 mark in his fourth season at Missouri. He has two 20-win seasons, together with a 25-10 mark in yr one in 2022-23, and a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances.
CONNECTIONS GALORE
- Missouri’s Mark Mitchell and Okay-State junior Taj Manning performed on the identical highschool teammate at Bishop Miege High School in suburban Kansas City, the place they helped the Stags to a 22-1 file and their sixth Class 4A State Championship.
- Okay-State’s Exavier Wilson and Missouri’s Aaron Rowe had been highschool teammates at Father Tolton High School in Columbia, Mo.
RECAPPING LAST SEASON
- During a curler coaster of a season that included a 6-game shedding streak adopted by a 6-game successful streak, Okay-State couldn’t overcome an up-and-down non-conference season, because the Wildcats completed with a 16-17 general file, together with a tie for ninth place with TCU within the new-look 16-team Big 12 with a 11th of September mark. Among the 16 wins had been 10 over groups that superior to the postseason (3 NCAA Tournament, 1 NIT and 6 College Basketball Crown), together with ranked wins over No. 3/3 Iowa State, No. 16/17 Cincinnati, No. 16/17 Kansas and No. 23/23 West Virginia.
- Okay-State received 6 of its first 8 video games earlier than shedding its final 3 non-conference video games (at St. John’s, Drake and Wichita State) to enter Big 12 play with a 6-5 file. After a 70-67 win over No. 16/17 Cincinnati within the Big 12 opener, the Wildcats misplaced their subsequent 6 league video games (at TCU, at Oklahoma State, No. 12/11 Houston, Texas Tech, at No. 9/10 Kansas and at Baylor). After a powerful win over No. 23/23 West Virginia, the staff rattled off 5 extra victories, together with an 80-61 win at No. 3/3 Iowa State and back-to-back residence wins over No. 16/17 Kansas and No. 13/13 Arizona. However, the Wildcats could not preserve the momentum going with 4 straight losses (at BYU and Utah, Arizona State and at UCF). The staff received 3 of their final 4 earlier than falling to Baylor on the Big 12 Championship.
- Seniors Coleman Hawkins and David N’Guessan had been each lauded for his or her excellent seasons, as Hawkins was named to the All-Big 12 Third Team whereas N’Guessan was chosen to the Honorable Mention staff. Hawkins was the one Division I participant within the nation to common no less than 10 factors, 6.5 rebounds, 4 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.0 blocks per recreation. The Wildcats’ main scorer (13.3 ppg.) and rebounder (7.2 rpg.), N’Guessan led the Big 12 with a 64.4 discipline objective share whereas rating within the league’s high 20 in each scoring and rebounding.