University of Missouri
South Dakota
Men's Basketball Hosts South Dakota Thursday Night
11/19/2025 4:59:00 PM | Men's Basketball
| Missouri (5-0, 0-0 SEC) vs. South Dakota (3-2, 0-0 Summit League) | |
| Game Details | Thursday, Nov. 20 • 7 p.m. • Columbia, Mo. • Mizzou Arena | Gameday Info |
| Television | SEC Network+ |
| Radio | Tiger Radio Network | Sirius XM: 392 | Sirius XM App: 982 |
| Game Notes | Missouri | South Dakota |
| Game Coverage | Live Stats | Twitter: @MizzouHoops | Instagram: @MizzouHoops |
| Tickets | Ticketmaster | 1-800-CAT-PAWS |
The Mizzou men's basketball aims to extend its winning streak to start the 2025-26 season as the 5-0 Tigers host South Dakota on Thursday night. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. on SEC Network+.
PROMOTIONS
• Thursday's game is BYO(P)B – Bring Your Own Popcorn Bucket. Fans can bring any size bucket and have it filled for $4.99 during the game.
ABOUT THE TIGERS
• Missouri is a perfect 5-0 through its first five games of the season.
• MU is coming off a victory over Prairie View A&M on Monday where six different players scored in double figures, led by 20 from Jacob Crews.
• Mark Mitchell leads the way for Missouri with 18.0 points and 3.2 assists per game, while ranking second with 6.4 rebounds.
• Five Tigers are scoring in double figures with Jayden Stone (13.6), Anthony Robinson II (13.2), Jacob Crews (12.6) and Sebastian Mack (10.0) following Mitchell's lead.
• Shawn Phillips Jr. leads Mizzou with 7.5 boards.
• The Tigers are averaging 91.4 points per game in 2025-26 – shooting 56.4 percent from the field and 44.0 percent from 3-point range.
ABOUT THE COYOTES
• South Dakota enters Mizzou Arena with a 3-2 record – winning each of its last three games.
• The Coyotes are coming off an 83-78 win over Western Michigan on Sunday.
• Isaac Bruns leads the team with 17.4 points, while Shey Eberwein is second with 10.4 and Uzziah Buntyn third with 10.0 points.
• Cameron Fens has a team-best 4.8 rebounds, while Buntyn also leads the Coyotes with 3.6 assists per game.
• South Dakota is averaging 89.6 points, while allowing 78.0 on the defensive end.
SERIES HISTORY
• The schools are meeting for the fifth time but the first time in 49 years.
• The Tigers have won all four meetings with the Coyotes, taking the last contest, 85-76, in 1976.
MIZZOU VERSUS SUMMIT LEAGUE
• The Tigers own a 31-3 all-time record against the Summit League, including a 28-1 mark in CoMo.
• Mizzou is playing a conference foe for the first time under Coach Gates – the Tigers dropped their last contest to Kansas City in 2021, 80-66.
NEARING A MILESTONE
• Graduate Jacob Crews is quickly approaching a career milestone.
• Crews enters Thursday's game with 982 career points, just 18 shy of 1,000 for his career.
• Crews would be the third active Tiger to reach the milestone, joining Mark Mitchell (1,249 career points) and Jevon Porter (1,133).
EARLY NATIONAL RANKS
• The Tigers have not wasted any of time finding their shooting touch in 2025-26.
• MU is making 56.4 percent of its field goals this season with a 3-point clip of 44.0 percent.
• In fact, Mizzou currently ranks fourth nationally with its 56.4 percent overall clip and 12th with its 3-point percentage of 44.2.
HOT SHOOTING LEADS THE WAY
• The key to the Tigers ranking among the nation's best shooters is their consistency
• Mizzou has eclipsed 50 percent shooting in all five of its games in 2025-26 – its longest streak to start a season since beginning the 1982-83 campaign with a seven-game run.
• Overall, MU is one of just five schools (of 365) to shoot at least 50 percent in every game this year.
50 PERCENT OR BETTER
• As Mizzou continues to make 50 percent of its field goals, it continues to pile up the wins.
• The 50 percent mark is almost a guaranteed win for the Tigers as MU is now 35-1 under Coach Gates when hitting the mark, including 17-0 since the start of the 2024-25 season.
3-POINT WEAPONS
• Behind the team's top-15 3-point shooting team are a number of weapons beyond the arc.
• Four Tigers are currently shooting 40-plus percent from 3-point range – Jacob Crews (61.9), Luke Northweather (58.3), Anthony Robinson II (52.9), and Jayden Stone (42.9).
• The Tigers are one of just nine teams nationally with four players making at least 1.4 triples per game and shooting 40-plus percent.
CREWS IN TOP 10
• Graduate student Jacob Crews has led the way for Mizzou from beyond the arc.
• Crews is making 61.9 percent of his 3-point attempts (13-21), ranking 10th in the nation.
• The graduate student has been at his best in the last two games, making a combined 8-of-11 (72.7 percent).
• Crews is the first Tiger to make at least four triples and 60 percent in back-to-back games since Jordan Barnett in 2017-18.
PLENTY OF OPTIONS
• The Tigers can rely a number of players to lead the team on any given night.
• Of the 10 players to feature in a game this season, seven have already scored in double figures at least once.
• In MU's win Monday, six players scored in double figures in the same game for the first time this year.
