SEC Media Day in the books!

The college basketball season is just around the corner as Mizzou Hoops is about to begin Year 1 of the Dennis Gates era. Wednesday in Birmingham, Alabama at SEC Media Days — the SEC Men’s Basketball preseason poll was released.

Despite a preseason KenPom ranking of 41 and a Bart Torvik projection of 49, Missouri was predicted to finish in the bottom four of the conference at 11th place, only ahead of Vanderbilt, Georgia, and South Carolina. No Mizzou players were selected to the All-SEC teams. Kentucky was picked to win the league and Oscar Tshiebwe was voted preseason Player of the Year (shocking, I know).

It’s obviously understandable that a brand-new team with a first-year head coach and a program that went 12-21 (5-13) last season was picked to finish so low, but I think this roster has enough pieces to outperform their preseason placement and perhaps become the “sleeper team” of the league.

More likely to happen for Mizzou this season? A Twitter poll — and still time to vote on it!

Moving on, some other news and notes from SEC Media Days. I love this from Gates and Zo. Cuonzo Martin is a class act.

Meanwhile, I’m.......indifferent about this one from Gates. This certainly got a lot of negative comments.

One last thing — we’re officially on football commitment watch. Marvin Burks, a four-star safety from Cardinal Ritter High School in St. Louis will make his commitment decision on Friday between Missouri, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, LSU, and Oklahoma.

On3 and 247Sports have targeted Ole Miss as the favorite, but there is a Rivals FutureCast prediction put in for Missouri. Stay tuned!

Onto the links. M-I-Z!

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Yesterday at Rock M

• Opponents Preview from Nate Edwards: Vanderbilt Commodores
• The Mizzou Special from Brandon Haynes: Breaking down the Mizzou’s special teams unit
• SEC Basketball Preview from Sam Snelling: Georgia and Mike White together get a second chance
• BK’s Bets from Brandon Kiley: SEC Week 8 Bets
• PODCAST with Nate Edwards and Brandon Kiley: You know what? It’s time to get an SEC win
• Missouri Football Offensive Presser Notes: Vanderbilt Week, from Brandon Haynes

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More Links:

(STLToday)

• From Dave Matter: Rebuilt Mizzou basketball picked 11th in SEC preseason poll
• Mizzou basketball’s Dennis Gates favors NCAA Tournament expansion, writes Dave Matter
• Mizzou quarterback Brady Cook: “I plan on changing things around”, writes Dave Matter
• Mizzou vs Vanderbilt football: 3 things to watch in Tigers’ must-win homecoming game, writes Dave Matter

(KCStar)

• From Blair Kerkhoff: Missouri Tigers vs Vanderbilt Commodores: 5 things to know as winless SEC teams clash
• From Blair Kerkhoff: Here’s where the newcomer-heavy Mizzou men’s basketball team is picked to finish in the SEC

(Columbia Missourian)

• From Chad Silvey: MU soccer looks to find offensive spark in final home game against Kentucky
• From Jack Knowlton: MU men’s basketball projected to finish 11th in SEC
• Tigers’ offense looks to take advantage of bye week, writes Kyle Pinnell and Kenny Van Doren

(Columbia Daily Tribune)

• From Chris Kwiecinski: 5 observations from Robin Pingeton’s remarks on Mizzou women’s basketball at SEC Media Days

(Miscellaneous/Tweets)

• Big news from “Tiger Talk” with an update from Drinkwitz on Dominic Lovett and Luther Burden. You can listen to the full episode of last night’s “Tiger Talk” with Marcus Johnson and Javon Foster as the other guests.

• From Drew King at PowerMizzou: Focused on culture, Mizzou WBB hoping to earn respect
• On MUTigers.com, Soccer Ramps Up for Final Home Game of 2022
• On MUTigers.com, Wrestling Brings Back Dual on the Diamond Against Lindenwood, Nov. 6

• The future for Mizzou Volleyball is bright, coming in with the 9th ranked recruiting class in 2024!

• From the SEC Tipoff Blog: Mizzou embraces new coach Dennis Gates
• In the season opener for the Nuggets vs the Jazz, Michael Porter Jr. had 15 points, seven rebounds and an assist for Denver, while Jordan Clarkson had 10 points, five rebounds, and five assists for Utah. The Heat, who faced the Bulls on opening night, left Dru Smith on the bench with the rest of their rookies.
• Kobe Brown and Nick Honor are TIRED!

• Highlights from ABC17’s Chanel Porter:

• Jaxton Briceno was the latest Mizzou Football Kid Captain from their game against No. 1 Georgia. Love this. Give it a watch!

• A look at lettermen winners around Mizzou Athletics!

• We hope Haley Troup had a good birthday!

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