COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou women’s basketball will face Tennessee Tech at 11 a.m. Monday at Mizzou Arena. The game will be broadcast on SECN+ and over the radio on the Mizzou Tigers App.
The contest will serve as the annual field trip day as Mizzou will welcome students from Columbia Public Schools and surrounding districts.
The Tigers enter the contest at 2-0 following a victory over Little Rock on Friday.
Senior guard Grace Slaughter scored 23 points and grabbed seven rebounds against the Trojans. With the scoring output, Slaughter moved up to 11th on the program’s all-time scoring list with 1,489 points. She is just 46 points shy of passing Erika Martin (1992-96) for 10th.
Freshman Khloe Ford continued the strong start to her collegiate career with eight points and seven rebounds in the win. Ford posted a double-double with 15 points and 15 rebounds against Howard. Her 15 rebounds are the most in a Mizzou debut since at least the 2002-03 season.
McKenzie Mathurin led Mizzou with 29 points against Howard, the most in a Mizzou debut since at least the 2002-03 season and the most in a season opener since Sophie Cunningham scored 31 in 2018-19. She added eight points against Little Rock.
Slaughter was named to the Preseason All-SEC Second Team and the Cheryl Miller Small Forward of the Year watch list after she ranked sixth in the SEC and 37th in the country with 18.7 points per game last season.
Mizzou welcomes in the No. 25 recruiting class, the program’s highest-ranked class since 2018.
Mizzou is one of four SEC teams with five freshmen and has the highest percentage of underclassmen on the roster (66.67%).
The Tigers bolstered their roster with Indiana transfer Naveah Caffey, who started all 32 games and averaged 8.5 points last season, Caffey scored 17 in the season opener.
With the addition of Caffey and Mathurin, Mizzou has five top-100 recruits on the roster from the 2025 and 2026 classes (Caffey, No. 42; Maples, No. 96; Mathurin, No. 39; Hodge, No. 54; Ford, No. 82).
Tennessee Tech enters the contest at 1-1 following a victory over Emory & Henry on Thursday.
The Golden Eagles are coached by Kim Rosamond who is in her 11th season on the sidelines with a 173-133 record.
Junior guard Savannah Davis and senior guard Karson Martin are averaging 16.0 and 15.5 points per game, respectively.
The contest will be the fifth overall meeting between the programs and the second in Columbia. Mizzou won the last meeting at the 2023 Daytona Beach Classic.
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