Saturday, December 9
Columbia, Mo.
8 PM CT
University of Missouri
vs
Green Bay
@MizzouHoops Welcomes Green Bay to Mizzou Arena on Saturday Night
12/8/2017 3:14:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Tigers-Phoenix tip off at 8 p.m. CT on the SEC Network
Mizzou Men's Basketball (7-2) continues at home with Green Bay (3-4) on Saturday, Dec. 9, for the third-ever matchup between the two programs. The Tigers continue their December homestand with tipoff scheduled for 8 p.m. CT on the SEC Network.
Promotions
- Mizzou fans are encouraged to wear their best (or worst) holiday sweaters for an Ugly Sweater Party. One Mizzou student chosen to have the best (or worst) sweater will receive a $50 gift card to the Tiger Team Store.
Story Lines
- Mizzou Men's Basketball (7-2) continues at home with Green Bay (3-4) on Saturday, Dec. 9, for the third-ever matchup between the two programs. The Tigers continue their December homestand with tipoff scheduled for 8 p.m. CT on the SEC Network.
- Head coach Cuonzo Martin has Mizzou out to its best start to a season (7-2) since the Black & Gold's 2013-14 campaign when the Tigers began the season 10-0.
- Mizzou defeated Miami (Ohio) by a score of 70-51 on Tuesday, Dec. 5, thanks in part to the seventh 20-point game of junior forward Kevin Puryear's career.
- Graduate senior guard Kassius Robertson has made multiple three-pointers in five consecutive games. His 3-of-7 performance from deep against Miami (Ohio) was his fifth game of 3+ three-pointers in nine games.
- Speaking of threes - senior Jordan Barnett matched his career-high with five three-pointers vs. Miami (Ohio). Barnett sank 5-of-7 from beyond the arc en route to 15 points.
- Mizzou picked up its first road win of the season with a 62-59 victory at UCF (Nov. 30). Robertson (5-7 3PT) led the way with 19 points.
- Martin and Green Bay's second-year head coach Linc Darner were Purdue teammates during Martin's freshman, sophomore and junior seasons playing for Gene Keady. The Boilermakers posted a 65-30 record during that three-year stretch.
- The Tigers have improved immensely as a blocking team, more than doubling last season's blocks per game average (2.1) with their current 5.0-blocks-per-game average.
- Mizzou ranks second in the SEC and 19th nationally in rebounding margin per game (+9.3).
- The Tigers rank third in the league in three-pointers made per game (9.2).
Scouting Green Bay
- Mizzou faces Green Bay for the first time since the 2002-03 season on Saturday, Dec. 9, for the third overall matchup in the series.
- The Tigers are 2-0 all-time against the Phoenix, although the last meeting came at the Hearnes Center in 2002. Mizzou won, 88-67, on Dec. 9, 2002.
- Mizzou's first contest with Green Bay came on Jan. 4, 1984, with the Tigers winning at home, 88-59.
- The Phoenix are led by senior guard Khalil Small's 15.6 points per game. Small also leads Green Bay in rebounds and assists with 7.0 boards and 3.0 dimes per game.
- In recent action, Green Bay defeated Eastern Illinois at home by a score of 59-57 on Wednesday, Dec. 6.
- Comparatively, Green Bay lost at Mississippi State, 77-68, on Nov. 20. Small scored 15 points in the setback. Teammate T.J. Parham matched that total with 15 points of his own.
Notes From the Miami (Ohio) Win
- Mizzou shot 25-of-47 (53.2 percent) from the field in the 70-51 win vs. Miami (Ohio), the second-best shooting night of the season for Mizzou, and the fourth time the Tigers have shot better than 50 percent from the field in a game.
- The Tigers outrebounded the Redhawks, 38-32, the eighth time this season Mizzou has outrebounded its opponent.
- Junior forward Kevin Puryear led the team in scoring for the third time this season, pouring in 20 points (6-of-8 FG, 2-of-3 3 PT, 6-of-6 FT), the first time this season and seventh time in his career he has reached 20 points.
- Senior forward Jordan Barnett scored 15 points (5-of-11 FG, 5-of-9 3 PT) in the game, his fourth consecutive game and sixth time this season he has scored in double-digits.
More Story Lines
- The Tigers are out to 7-2 start -- the best start to a season for Mizzou since the 2013-14 campaign when the Black & Gold started 10-0 (wins were later vacated).
- Barnett matched his career-high with five three-pointers in the win vs. Miami (Ohio). He also connected on five three-pointers against Vanderbilt as a junior last season (Feb. 11, 2017).
- Graduate senior guard Kassius Robertson had played in 108 games in his career, which began with three seasons at Canisius, but never before had Robertson recorded two blocks in a game before doing so in the win vs. Miami (Ohio) on Dec. 5.
- Mizzou has converted better than 40 percent of its three-point field goal attempts in five-straight games.
- Ball movement is on the up-tick for the Tigers this season, as Mizzou has averaged 16.4 assists per game -- an improvement over the 12.1 dimes averaged last season. Martin's squad has only posted games with fewer than 12 assists twice this season (11: at Utah; vs. Emporia State).
- Graduate senior guard Kassius Robertson has sank multiple three-pointers in five-consecutive games and has accomplished the feat in 7-of-9 games this season.
- Robertson has converted 61.5 percent of his three-point field goal attempts in Mizzou's last three games (16-of-26).
- Freshman forward Jontay Porter has at least one block in 7-of-9 games this season.
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