Mizzou Women’s Basketball Hosts Tennessee Tech on Monday

Mizzou women’s basketball will host Tennessee Tech at 11 a.m. Monday at Mizzou Arena, mutigers.com reported.

The matchup serves as the program’s annual field trip day, bringing in students from Columbia Public Schools and surrounding districts.

The Tigers enter the contest with a 2-0 record following a victory over Little Rock on Friday. Senior guard Grace Slaughter scored 23 points and grabbed seven rebounds against the Trojans, according to mutigers.com.

That scoring output moved Slaughter up to 11th on the program’s all-time scoring list with 1,489 points. She sits 46 points shy of passing Erika Martin, who played from 1992 to 1996, for 10th place.

Freshman Khloe Ford added eight points and seven rebounds in the win over Little Rock. In her debut against Howard, Ford posted a double-double with 15 points and 15 rebounds, marking the most rebounds in a Mizzou debut since at least the 2002-03 season.

McKenzie Mathurin led Mizzou with 29 points against Howard, which mutigers.com noted as the most in a Mizzou debut since at least the 2002-03 season and the most in a season opener since Sophie Cunningham scored 31 in the 2018-19 campaign. Mathurin added eight points against Little Rock.

Slaughter earned spots on the Preseason All-SEC Second Team and the Cheryl Miller Small Forward of the Year watch list after ranking sixth in the SEC and 37th nationally with 18.7 points per game last season. Mizzou also welcomed the No. 25 recruiting class, the program’s highest-ranked class since 2018, featuring five freshmen.

Tennessee Tech enters at 1-1 after defeating Emory & Henry on Thursday. Kim Rosamond handles the Golden Eagles in her 11th season with a 173-133 record, according to mutigers.com. Junior guard Savannah Davis and senior guard Karson Martin pace Tennessee Tech by averaging 16.0 and 15.5 points per game.

Monday marks the fifth overall meeting between the two programs and the second in Columbia. Mizzou won the last meeting at the 2023 Daytona Beach Classic.

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