Mizzou Basketball Officially Starts 2016-17 Practices

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Mizzou Men’s Basketball began its preparations for the 2016-17 season on Sunday, Oct. 2, inside Mizzou Arena with its first official practice. Head coach Kim Anderson‘s group is ahead of schedule in its preseason workload, having gone through 10 full practices ahead of the group’s foreign tour of Italy (Aug. 5-15).

The Tigers return several key components of last season’s group, including sophomores Terrence Phillips (Orange County, Calif.) and Kevin Puryear (Blue Springs, Mo.), who both started every game of the 2015-16 campaign.

Game Times for Florida Game Set

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Mizzou won their last trip to Gainesville 42-13 in 2014.The Tigers are 2-2 against the Gators as SEC members.

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