Sunday, February 18
Columbia, Mo.
1:00 p.m. CT
University of Missouri
vs
Tennessee
No. 13 @MizzouWBB Hosts No. 11 @Tennessee Sunday in Annual Play4Kay Game
2/17/2018 5:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Tip off is set for 1 p.m. CT on ESPNU
COLUMBIA, MO. - Winners of four in a row, No. 13 Mizzou hosts No. 11 Tennessee on Sunday at 1 p.m. CT. The game will air on ESPNU. It will serve as Mizzou's annual Play4Kay Pink Out game. The first 2,000 fans in attendance will receive a free pink T-shirt.
No. 13 Mizzou and No. 11 Tennessee Set for Top-13 Showdown at Mizzou Arena
- Mizzou is 6-1 in its last seven home games against Top 25 opponents. The Tigers have won 41 of their last 47 overall games at home.
- A win Sunday would give Mizzou two wins over Top-11 oppponents in the same season for the first time since 1993-94 when the Tigers beat No. 6 Kansas and No. 3 Colorado.
- The Tigers have won 14 of their last 18 regular season SEC. games. Mizzou owns a winning streak against seven of 13 SEC opponents.
- Mizzou has had a higher field goal percentage than its opponent in 24 of its 26 games this season.
- The Tigers have already clinched 21 wins, cementing three consecutive seasons with at least 21 wins for the first time since 1982-85. The win Thursday over Auburn gave Mizzou 21 wins by Feb. 15. That is the quickest Mizzou has reached 21 wins in a season since the Tigers did so on Feb. 4 during the 1976-77 campaign. Mizzou needs two victories to reach 23 wins for the first time since 1983-84.
- Mizzou allows the 12th-fewest rebounds per game in the nation, as opponents grab just 30.5 per game. Coach Pingeton's squad ranks 13th in the nation in rebound margin.
- The Tigers rank first in the SEC in free throw percentage during league play, shooting 79.5 percent. Mizzou set a program record last season, shooting 80.2 percent at the line.
- Mizzou has spent all 16 weeks of the season in the Top 25 in the AP poll. The Tigers spent just seven weeks ranked all of last season. Since the beginning of the 2015-16 campaign, Mizzou has spent 29 weeks in the Top 25.
- Junior Sophie Cunningham is the only player in the nation shooting at least 84 percent from the free throw line, 47 percent from 3-point range AND 55 percent from the field, arguably putting together the most efficient season by any player in the nation.
- All-SEC performer Jordan Frericks has scored in double figures nine times in the past 10 games and tallied at least 15 points in four consecutive games, averaging 16.8 points per contest during the Tigers' current four-game win streak.
- During the four-game win streak, Frericks has averaged 6.8 rebounds, grabbing at least eight in each of the last three outings.
- Frericks ranks 11th in the nation among active players in career rebounds with 988. She is just the fourth Tiger in program history to surpass 900 career rebounds and recently moved into third on Mizzou's all-time career rebounds list, passing Evan Unrau (945).
- Frericks now has 1,370 career points, which currently ranks sixth among active SEC players. Her 988 career rebounds rank third. She is one of only three players in the league have more than 1,000 career points and 900 career rebounds. Frericks is on pace to become just the third Tiger to be a member of the 1,000-point club and the 1,000-rebound club alongside Renee Kelly and Kesha Bonds.
- Mizzou has held opponents under 60 points 16 times this season and the Tigers are 15-1 in those contests. They've done so in 15 of the past 21 games. Only LSU, Vanderbilt. Georgia, Kentucky, Florida and South Carolina have scored more than 59 points against Mizzou since Wright State on Nov. 16. The Tigers are the only SEC team that has held opponents under 60 points at least 16 times. Mizzou held opponents under 60 points just 11 times all of last season.
- The Tigers rank second in the SEC and 15th in the nation in field goal percentage defense (35.3%) and third in the SEC in field goal percentage (46.4%). Mizzou is one just rwo teams in the SEC to rank in the top three in the league in both categories.
- Mizzou ranks 12th in the nation and first in the SEC in rebounding defense, holding opponents to just 30.8 rebounds per game. Mizzou held Kentucky to just 22 rebounds, a season-low for the Wildcats.
The Tigers have outrebounded their opponent 23 times in 26 games this season. They have grabbed 40+ rebounds as a team 12 times in the past 18 games. Mizzou ranks 13th in the nation in rebounding margin (+9.0) and ranks second in the SEC
Mizzou vs. Tennessee
- Mizzou is looking for just its second all-time win over Tennessee. The only other victory came five years ago, when the Tigers took down Tennessee, 80-63, on Jan. 10, 2013. Tennessee has won eight of the nine all-time meetings, prevailing in the only meeting last year, 77-66.
- The last time the two programs squared off in Columbia was in front of a Mizzou Arena-record 7,989 fans.
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