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What's On
The Oral Roberts game (tomorrow)!
Penton back (and other Media Day stuff)
The Trib (Behind the Stripes): CB Penton listed as starter for Tennessee game
Penton, the 5-foot-10, 185-pound St. Louis native, started Missouri's first nine games this season. He's second on the team with three interceptions and leads the Tigers with 10 passes defended.
Fellow sophomore John Gibson and junior David Johnson filled in for Penton against Texas A&M. Gibson logged three tackles.
The Tigers, who were also missing starting safety Braylon Webb for the first half of the game while he served a suspension from his targeting ejection against Kentucky, gave up 237 pass yards and three touchdowns on 36 attempts against the Aggies, with an Ian Simon interception.
Post-Dispatch: Penton rejoins Mizzou depth chart
Penton, the former All-State player at CBC, was also arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession in March.
"These are young guys," cornerbacks coach Cornell Ford said of the situation last week. "They all make mistakes, just like my kids. I try to treat them just like that. We move on and learn from it. Hopefully, they don't make the same mistakes again. We try to use it as a teaching moment."
KBIA Sports: Media Day Notes: Penton returns, Steward undergoes surgery
MUTIGERS.COM: GAME NOTES: Tigers Finish Road Swing at Tennessee
Post-Dispatch: Live from Columbia: Pinkel talks Tigers-Vols
Post-Dispatch: Two wins would return Tigers to SEC championship game
PowerMizzou: Media Day Notebook
The Missourian: Looking ahead: Missouri football focused on Tennessee, not Atlanta - Columbia Missourian
Russell Hansbrough, OPOTW
The offense had a hell of a Saturday. And it'll need to play even better this Saturday.
MUTIGERS.COM: Russell Hansbrough Named SEC Offensive Player of the Week
MUTIGERS.COM: Mizzou Football Media Day Quotes - Nov. 17
On the return of wide receiver Darius White against Texas A&M...
"Five or six plays I noticed some great plays from him. That third down play with the touchdown catch was a really important part of the game. It was pouring down rain and he somehow came down with a one-handed catch. You got to have players make plays. Darius certainly did a great job."
On running back Russell Hansbrough's performance at Texas A&M...
"He was really breaking a lot of tackles and had quickness. I think running backs coach, Brian Jones, has done a good job with him and he's different now than he was in the first half of the season. He's had great quickness and change of direction and he'd always try to outrun the defense and cut back. Sometimes he was successful and we all saw that. What Coach Jones has tried to do is to get him to go downhill more, find creases and use his speed to cut. He gets that now. He's playing different now. Give him a little more blocking and that gives him a better chance to have big plays. He has made some phenomenal runs and that allows us to be a better offensive football team."
Fox Sports MW: Mizzou's offense takes off with top receivers all back healthy and active
Post-Dispatch: Missouri's offensive line paves way for progress
D'Angelo Allen: another reason for down-the-line optimism
Allen alternated between running along the baseline and finding openings in the middle of Valparaiso's zone defense through Anderson's high-low zone offense. On one play, Allen caught an entry pass in the middle of the zone and found senior big man Keanau Post cutting on the baseline. Allen bounced the ball to Post, who then jammed it home.
Allen also scored his first points as a Tiger. He took three shots and hit two of them after hardly looking at the hoop in the Tigers' first game or either of the previous two exhibition games.
"He wasn't being guarded, and then he shot it," Anderson said, his tone rising with excitement. "It went in. Which he can do."
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Ken Pomeroy: The slowest season(?)
However, there has been one interesting development: This could be the slowest-paced season that college hoops has seen.
WHATNOT
Women's Basketball
MUTIGERS.COM: Balanced Scoring Attack Carries Mizzou over SEMO
The Missourian: Bree Fowler shoots, defends to help Missouri women's basketball team win
The Maneater: Missouri women’s basketball shuts down Redhawks
Volleyball
Tennis