Mizzou’s Mevis, Bazelak Earn SEC Weekly Conference Honors

COLUMBIA, Mo. – A pair of Mizzou freshmen were honored by the Southeastern Conference office Monday (Dec. 7). True freshman K Harrison Mevis (Warsaw, Ind.) earned SEC Special Teams Player of the Week and RS freshman QB Connor Bazelak (Dayton, Ohio) earned Freshman of the Week following Mizzou's 50-48 win over Arkansas. Mizzou has now earned seven SEC weekly honors this season. Bazelak leads the way by winning SEC Freshman of the Week three times a league-high this season. Mevis earns the distinction for the first time in his career.

Mevis matched a school record with five field goals, the most by any kicker nationally this season, and reset the school record by scoring 20 of Mizzou's 50 points in a 50-48 win over SEC West rival Arkansas. Included among those five field goals was a walk-off, game-winning 32-yard field goal to help Mizzou to its fifth straight win over Arkansas and its fifth win in six games this season. Mevis, the nation's No. 2-ranked kicker coming out of high school, also connected on FGs from 51, 29, 37 and 40 and hit all five of his PATs as well in a game where Mizzou needed every point to defeat the Razorbacks. He is just the fourth Tiger kicker to make three kicks of 50+ yards in his career and is the first Tiger with five field goals in a game since Tucker McCann knocked in five vs. South Carolina on Oct. 6, 2018. Mevis now leads the nation in field goals made per game (2.0) and is fourth nationally with his 16 makes.

Bazelak earns SEC Freshman of the Week for the second straight week after a sensational performance in Mizzou's 50-48 win over Arkansas, despite not throwing a touchdown for the second consecutive week. He went 32-for-49 (65.3 percent) for 380 yards, his second straight game over 300 yards, as he improved to 6-1 as a starter in his young career. On Mizzou's game-winning drive with just 43 seconds remaining, he moved the offense 60 yards in seven plays, going a perfect 4-for-4 for 54 yards and three first downs on the drive. He was 8-for-11 for 150 yards in the fourth quarter as he helped rally Mizzou from down 14 points in the final frame, good for the largest fourth-quarter comeback in school history. He's now fourth in the SEC in passing yards per game (250.3) and fifth in completion percentage. He has thrown just two interceptions on the year, the fewest of any SEC quarterback with at least five games played.

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Mizzou will return home next Saturday for a Dec. 12 tilt with SEC East Division rival Georgia. That game will kick at 11 a.m. on SEC Network

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