COLUMBIA, Mo. - No. 9 Mizzou wrestling is hosting the fifth annual Tiger Style Invite on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 10 a.m. CT in Hearnes Center. The tournament is in Columbia for the second consecutive season and will feature competitors from Purdue, Oregon State, Little Rock, South Dakota State and Morgan State.

Missouri will honor Tiger Style alumni, including recognition of four-time All-American Daniel Lewis. Lewis was inducted into the Mizzou Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2026 in October.

ONE FINAL CHAPTER

• Head coach Brian Smith announced on Nov. 4 that the 2026-27 season will be his final at the helm after 29 seasons. 
• Mizzou Director of Athletics Laird Veatch has appointed associate head coach Kendric Maple to take over as head coach after this season. 
• Smith has guided the Tigers to 354 dual victories, accounting for more than half of the program's 684 all-time wins.
• Throughout his tenure, Smith has coached 66 conference champions, 203 NCAA qualifiers and 72 All-Americans, while leading six Tigers to a combined 10 individual national championships. He holds a career record of 354-130-3 (.730) at Mizzou and led the program to 12 consecutive conference team titles from 2012-23.
• Smith's impact has extended to the national stage, where Missouri has consistently competed among the country's top programs. His teams have earned two NCAA Championship team trophies, finishing third in 2007 and fourth in 2015, and placed in the top 10 at nine of the last 12 national tournaments.
• Smith has also helped develop athletes who excelled on the international stage. Former Tigers Ben Askren and J'den Cox represented the United States at the 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics, respectively, with Cox capturing a bronze medal in Rio de Janeiro.

PREVIOUSLY ON TIGER STYLE 

• Missouri enters the Tiger Style Invite with a 3-0 dual record after a dominating performance at the Missouri Duals, on Nov. 2.
• Mizzou concluded its first outing with a combined record of 27-3, and accounted for a staggering 137 combined dual points against Central Methodist, Maryville and Central Missouri.
• The Tigers totaled 22 bonus-point wins, including 11 pins.
• Returning two-time All-American Cam Steed spent just 46 seconds on the mat, recording two pins against opponents from Maryville and Central Missouri.
• Freshmen Demetri Carrera, Kollin Rath and Cash Cooley picked up their first collegiate wins, earning two falls and two major decisions.

THE LAST INVITE

• Mizzou has finished first at all four Tiger Style Invites, including last season, when it totaled 146.5 team points. 
• Zeke Seltzer (141), Josh Edmond (149), Max Mayfield (165), and Aeoden Sinclair (184) all won individual titles last season, and Mack Mauger (125) and Jarrett Stoner (285) also made the tournament finals.
• Of the 22 Tigers who competed at the 2025 Tiger Style Invite, 18 (82%) placed in the top six at their respective weight classes.
• The record for team points scored is held by the 2023-24 Tigers with 188.5 points.

FORMIDABLE FOES

• The Black and Gold will be joined by wrestlers from five different Division I programs for the Tiger Style Invite: Little Rock, Morgan State, Oregon State, Purdue, South Dakota State.
• Oregon State (6), South Dakota State (6) and Little Rock (3) are all receiving votes in the NWCA Coaches' Poll.
• Including Mizzou, the six teams competing have a combined 28 wrestlers who qualified for the 2026 NCAA Championships, including three All-Americans. (Joey Blaze, Aeoden Sinclair and Cam Steed)
• According to the FloWrestling rankings, 15 ranked wrestlers could take the mat at the invite, with Missouri having the most at nine.

RANKED AND READY

• The Tigers enter the weekend ranked No. 9 in the National Wrestling Coaches' Association (NWCA) Poll.
• Missouri is the second-highest-ranked Big 12 Conference team, only behind No. 2 Oklahoma State.
• Individually, Mizzou has nine wrestlers ranked in their respective weight classes by FloWrestling and InterMat.
• Four wrestlers are ranked in the top-10, highlighted by No. 3 Cam Steed at 174 pounds and No. 4 Aeoden Sinclair at 184 pounds.

BUILT ON BONUS

• Dual Points Gained (DPG) through MatSavant measures how many extra team dual points a college wrestler earns per match compared to what an average wrestler would score against the same opponent.
• DPG ranks the top wrestlers in the country based on this efficiency metric.
• Junior Aeoden Sinclair ranks No. 13 in the country at the start of the season and No. 3 at 184 pounds with a 4.6 DPG and will see his first matches of the season this weekend at the Tiger Style Invite.

BEST IN THE BIZ

• Head coach Brian Smith is second in the country among current head coaches with 356 career dual wins.
• He earned his 350th dual win on January 25, 2026, against Northern Colorado (42-0).
• Smith trails Rob Koll (North Carolina) with 357 and has Tom Ryan (Ohio State) close behind him with 353 wins.

MOST WINS (Active, 50+)

• Cam Steed (63), J Conway (61), Zan Fugitt (54), Jarrett Stoner (53) and Luke Geog (52)

ON DECK

• Mizzou flies east to Philadelphia for the Keystone Classic on Sunday, Nov. 22, hosted by Penn. The competition will make the Tigers' first appearance at the Classic in program history, with fans able to catch all the action live on FloWrestling.

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