Mizzou hosts Mississippi State tomorrow afternoon at Mizzou Arena (1:00 p.m. CT, ESPN2), and it’s a generically important game in the way that every game is important when you’re fighting for an NCAA Tournament bid, and every game is important when you lost a game to the same team (one that has now won four games in a row) just a couple of weeks ago.

Less generically, it’s the most important game on the schedule.

For the third year in a row, Missouri will host a game benefiting the Loos family’s Rally for Rhyan charity. Proceeds will go to pediatric cancer research.

Loos figured support would dwindle a bit after the first Rally for Rhyan game, in 2016. He knows that “lives go on” and people have their own problems.

But then the second rendition of the game raised even more than the first, approximately $54,000. Together, the two games combined to bring in more than $100,000.

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• Mizzou Gymnastics is Sticking it to Hunger against No. 3 LSU tonight at Hearnes.
• Mizzou Track & Field is off to both Fayetteville and Nashville this weekend.
• Mizzou Softball is still undefeated!
• Your 6-1 Mizzou Tennis squad hosts 3-2 Tulane and 0-4 South Dakota State on Saturday.
• Spring season begins for Mizzou Women’s Golf.