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Women's Basketball Travels to Face No. 22 Tennessee Thursday
2/11/2026 1:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Mizzou women's basketball travels on the road to face No. 22 Tennessee at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday at Mizzou Arena. The contest will be broadcast on SEC Network+ and the Tiger Radio Network.
Mizzou (16-10, 4-7 SEC) enters the contest having won three of its past four contests after falling to Georgia on Sunday, 85-66.
Junior guard Shannon Dowell recorded 16 points and four rebounds against the Bulldogs, while junior guard Grace Slaughter contributed 10 points and a team-leading eight rebounds.
Junior guard Lisa Thompson tallied 14 points, her highest total with the Black & Gold and just the third time she reached the double-digit mark this season.
Slaughter is 30th in the country and fifth in the SEC with 19.1 points this season. The junior has played 40 or more minutes in three contests and is ninth in the country and second in the SEC with 36.02 minutes per game this year.
Slaughter is eighth in the SEC in total rebounds at 186. The junior has doubled her rebounding average from 3.6 to 7.2 per game this season.
On the season, Mizzou is ranked 14th in the country and fourth in the SEC in 3-point percentage at 37.2%.
The Tigers are 23rd nationally and fourth in the SEC with 8.7 makes from beyond the arc per game.
Individually, Schreacke (38.8%) and sophomore guard Chloe Sotell (38.6%) are seventh and ninth, respectively, in the conference in 3-point percentage.
Mizzou ranks ninth in the country and first in the SEC in free-throw percentage at 79.3%. Dowell (116) and Slaughter (97) are second and sixth, respectively, in the conference in free throws made.
Opposite the scoring end, the Tigers are 21st in the country and fourth in the league in defensive rebounding with 29.0 per game.
The Lady Volunteers enter Thursday at 15-6, including a 7-2 mark in SEC play, following a loss at No. 3 South Carolina on Sunday.
Mizzou head coach Kellie Harper won three NCAA Championships with the Lady Vols under head coach Pat Summitt. Harper served as head coach at Tennessee from 2019-24 and took the program to two consecutive Sweet 16 appearances.
Spending five years with the Lady Vols, Harper rebuilt the historic program to national prominence. Two of her last three teams won 25 games, including a 25-9 record in 2021-22 with an 11-5 mark in SEC play and a 25-12 record in 2022-23 with a 13-3 mark against league competitors. The Lady Vols' 13 SEC wins in 2022-23 were the program's most since 2014-15 as they recorded 25 victories in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2013-14 and 2014-15.
Overall, Harper compiled a 108-52 record at Tennessee, including a 53-24 mark against SEC competition, ranking third in winning percentage in league games behind only LSU's Kim Mulkey and South Carolina's Dawn Staley.
Mizzou assistant coaches Jennifer Sullivan, Liza Fruendt and Michael Scruggs, in addition to director of basketball operations Haley Hall and graduate assistant Nick Norris, all have served previously in roles with the Lady Vols.
Tigers' sophomore Sydney Mains also hails from Knoxville and was a four-year letterwinner from Knoxville Catholic High School.
Head coach Kim Caldwell is in her second season at the helm of the program. In her collegiate head coaching career dating back to 2016 with her Division II days at Glenville State, Caldwell is 241-41 all-time.
Tennessee's roster is headlined by junior guard Talaysia Cooper, who averages 14.6 points per game.
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