@MizzouHoops Welcomes Green Bay to Mizzou Arena on Saturday Night

Saturday, December 9

Columbia, Mo.

8 PM CT

Missouri

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.

Mizzou vs. Miami (Ohio)
Dec. 9, 8:00 p.m.
SEC Network

Game Notes

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.