Mizzou Moves to the SEC: Calling The Hogs' Other Sports

Will we start a Border Battle competition with our "permanent" rivals to the south? Certainly too early to know, but it is never too early to get acquianted with all things Hog.

Monday: Broyles' Fingerprints All Over Arkansas Football
Tuesday: Coaching Hires And The Butterfly Effect
Wednesday: A Program You Might Know Pretty Well By Now

As always, we will review the last three years of records for each of the sports which Mizzou will be bringing to the SEC starting in July, along with the Mizzou results over the same time span (in bold and italics). Let's get to it, starting with the fall sports (season listed is year in which the sport completed so fall sports will be a calendar year behind):

Overall Learfield Cup Standings: 2009-10 (49th) - 46th , 2010-11 (41st) - 24th , 2011-12 (49th) - 20th

Women's Soccer:

• 2009 (13-6-3/7-1-2, B12 Regular Season Champs (1st) - 8-7-4 overall (first time Hogs had back-to-back winning seasons), 2-7-2 in SEC
• 2010 (7-10-2/5-5) - 5-11-3 overall, 2-7-2 in SEC
• 2011 (12-8-1/3-5-0) - 4-14 overall, 2-9 in SEC

Women's Cross Country:

• 2009 (7th in B12, 7th in NCAA Midwest Regional) - 3rd in SEC, 3rd in NCAA South Central Regionals
• 2010 (11th in B12, 12th in NCAA Midwest Regional) - 2nd in SEC, 3rd in NCAA South Central Regionals
• 2011 (4th in B12, 7th in NCAA Midwest Regional) - 2nd in SEC, 14th in NCAA Championships

Men's Cross Country:

• 2009 (T-8th in B12, 11th in NCAA Midwest Regional) - 2nd in SEC, 26th in NCAA Championships
• 2010 (11th in B12, 18th in NCAA Midwest Regional) - SEC Champions, 10th in NCAA Championships
• 2011 (6th in B12, 7th in NCAA Midwest Regional) - SEC Champions (19th), 3rd in NCAA South Central Regionals

Women's Volleyball:

• 2009 (18-14 overall, 9-11 in B12) - 13-18 overall, 7-13 in SEC
• 2010 (22-11 overall, 12-8 in B12, eliminated in NCAA Sweet 16) - 14-17 overall, 8-12 in SEC
• 2011 (21-13 overall, 7-9 in B12, eliminated in NCAA 1st round) - 18-13 overall, 10-10 in SEC

Women's Indoor Track:

• 2010 (10th in B12) - 2nd in SEC, t-15th in NCAA Championships
• 2011 (12th in B12) - 2nd in SEC, 4th in NCAA Championships
• 2012 (10th in B12) - 3rd in SEC, 5th in NCAA Championships

Men's Indoor Track:

• 2010 (9th in B12, 25th in NCAA Championships) - SEC Champions, 5th in NCAA Championships
• 2011 (9th in B12, t-26th in NCAA Championships) - 2nd in SEC, 7-22nd in NCAA Championships
• 2012 (8th in B12, t-61st in NCAA Championships) - SEC Champions (18th), 2nd in NCAA Championships

Women's Gymnastics:

• 2010 (3rd in B12, 12th in NCAA Championships) - 6th in SEC, 5th in NCAA Championships
• 2011 (4th in B12, 6th in NCAA Regional Championships) - 4th in SEC, 4th in NCAA Championships
• 2012 (t-2nd in B12, 4th in NCAA Regional Championships) - 6th in SEC, 6th in NCAA Championships (these three years are pretty remarkable, that they finish that relatively poorly in the SEC, and come on strong through the NCAA Regional round to finish that highly at the Championships)

Women's Basketball:

• 2010 (12-18 overall, 2-14 in B12) - 12-17 overall, 4-12 in SEC
• 2011 (13-18 overall, 5-11 in B12) - 22-12 overall, 6-10 in SEC, eliminated in quarterfinals of WNIT
• 2012 (13-18 overall, 2-14 in B12) - 24-9 overall, 10-6 in SEC, eliminated in 2nd round of NCAA Tournament (quite the three-year rise)

Women's Swimming and Diving:

• 2010 (3rd in B12, t-42nd in NCAA Championships) - 6th in SEC, 27th in
  NCAA Championships
• 2011 (3rd in B12, 23rd in NCAA Championships) - 8th in SEC, 32nd in NCAA Championships
• 2012 (3rd in B12, 14th in NCAA Championships) - 6th in SEC, t-41st in NCAA Championships

Men's Swimming and Diving: (does not compete)

Women's Outdoor Track:

• 2010 (10th in B12) - 3rd in SEC, 15th in NCAA Championships
• 2011 (11th in B12) - 3rd in SEC, t-14th in NCAA Championships
• 2012 (7th, t-40th in NCAA Championships) - 3rd in SEC, t-24th in NCAA Championships

Men's Outdoor Track:

• 2010 (10th in B12, t-21st in NCAA Championships) - 7th in SEC (not sure what happened in this year)
• 2011 (9th in B12, t-41st in NCAA Championships) - SEC Champions, t-10th in NCAA Championships
• 2012 (10th, t-56th in NCAA Championships) - SEC Champions (17th), 8th in NCAA Championships

Women's Tennis:

• 2010 (6-17 overall, 1-10 in B12) - 18-10 overall, 6-5 in SEC, eliminated in 2nd round of NCAA Tournament
• 2011 (11-9 overall, 4-6 in B12) - 18-10 overall, 6-5 in SEC, eliminated in 2nd round of NCAA Tournament
• 2012 (11-12 overall, 2-7 in B12, ranked #47 at last match) - 12-14 overall, 3-8 in SEC, eliminated in 1st round of NCAA Tournament

Women's Golf:

• 2010 (7th in B12) - 3rd in SEC, 13th in NCAA West Regionals
• 2011 (3rd in B12) - 4th in SEC, t-5th in NCAA Championships
• 2012 (9th in B12) - 2nd in SEC, 23rd in NCAA Championships

Men's Golf:

• 2010 (11th in B12, 10th in NCAA Regionals) - 4th in SEC, 8th in NCAA Regionals
• 2011 (5th in B12, 6th in NCAA Regionals) - 6th in SEC, 15th in NCAA Championships
• 2012 (8th in B12) - 5th in SEC, 6th in NCAA Regionals

Softball:

• 2010 (51-13 overall, 11-7 in B12, eliminated in WCWS) - 29-28 overall, 10-18 in SEC
• 2011 (53-10 overall, 13-2 in B12, B12 Regular Season Champions (1st), eliminated in WCWS) - 13-39 overall, 3-23 in SEC
• 2012 (47-14 overall, 17-7 in B12, eliminated in NCAA Super Regionals) - 29-28 overall, 7-21 in SEC (yes, you read that correctly), eliminated in NCAA Regionals (yes, you read that correctly as well. Arkansas did not even make the SEC Tourney, but got an at-large, and then gave Cal a scare before falling)

Baseball:

• 2010 (29-26 overall, 10-16 in B12) - 43-21 overall, 18-12 in SEC, eliminated in NCAA Super Regionals
• 2011 (27-32 overall, 12-15 in B12) - 40-22 overall, 15-15 in SEC (SEC West Champs...yes....that is what it said, 4th title), eliminated in NCAA Regionals
• 2012 (32-28 overall, 9-14 in B12, B12 Tournament Champions (first), eliminated in NCAA Regionals) - 44-20 overall, 18-10 in SEC, (7th CWS appearance) eliminated in CWS.

Summary:

With a couple of hiccups, and certainly none lately (2005-06), the MU/kU Border Series was never really close. I think a new battle opponent in Arkansas would be just fine. They are a bit ahead of where MU is at this point, but not so far that it would not be outside of reason to be able to compete with them fairly quickly. All in all, the Hogs have great tradition (and an even greater game-day atmosphere from what I hear) with baseball and are really impressive throughout all their track programs. Really, it seems like 2009-10 may have been an outlier given the strength from the past two years. But hey, it is the SEC, you come to expect this kind of strength and depth from school to school.

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