Game Notes - Nov. 7
• Mizzou extends their series lead to 3-0 over Southern Indiana in their first meeting since 1992. Monday night’s contest was USI’s first since making the jump to Division I competition.
• With the opening night victory, Mizzou has won 22 of its 23 season openers since the turn of the century, including eight straight at home.
• Mizzou is now 37-1 all-time against the Ohio Valley Conference and have won four straight matchups against OVC members.
• Head Coach Dennis Gates won his first-career season-opening matchup after dropping all three season-opening matchups during his tenure at Cleveland State. Gates became the 18th coach in program history to win his debut.
• Missouri’s 97 points are the team’s most in a regulation game since a 100-77 victory over Green Bay on Dec. 9, 2017. It is also Mizzou’s most in a season opener since scoring 99 versus Alabama A&M to open the 2016-17 campaign.
• Kobe Brown (20), Sean East II (12), Tre Gomillion (12), Deandre Gholston (11), D’Moi Hodge (11) and Nick Honor (10) all scored in double digits, marking the first time since Dec. 7, 2018 against Oral Roberts that six Tigers scored 10-plus points in the same game.
• The Tigers dished out 20 assists on the night, the most since a neutral site contest on Nov. 24, 2017 against St. John’s – also registering 20 on that night.
• Kobe Brown scored Mizzou’s first bucket of the season off a turnaround baby hook on the game’s initial possession.
• Mizzou pestered Southern Indiana defensively in the first half, holding them to a field goal percentage of 28.1% and 7.69% from beyond-the-arc.
• With 47 first-half points, the Tigers scored the most first-half points in a season opener since 2016, when they dropped 49 against Alabama A&M. The 49 first-half points are the most since Mizzou put up 49 in the first half against No. 6 Illinois on Dec. 12, 2020.
• Brown’s double-double performance is his eighth as a Tiger and his first in a season opener.
