COLUMBIA, Mo. — After a two-day break, Missouri men’s basketball returns to the court Friday afternoon, hosting Cleveland State on Black Friday.
The matchup will be a reunion in multiple ways for both staffs. Missouri head coach Dennis Gates spent three seasons at Cleveland State before joining Missouri in 2022. It will be the first time Gates takes on his former team.
Additionally, Cleveland State’s first-year head coach, was on Gates’ staff at both Missouri and Cleveland State as an assistant.
“I went against what coach (Leonard) Hamilton has done, because we vowed to never play against former assistants,” Gates said in a press conference Tuesday. “He (Summers) was my No. 1 guy, No. 1 assistant during that time at Cleveland State University … and there wasn’t nothing that I didn’t put on his desk that he did not sift through, did not turn into something.”
Missouri has won each of its first seven of the games, with Friday’s matchup being the last of a seven-game homestand.
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Missouri
Cleveland State
G Anthony Robinson II
G Jaidon Lipscomb
G Sebastisn Mack
G David Giddens
F Jevon Porter
F Preist Ryan
F Mark Mitchell
Dayan Nessah
C Shawn Phillips Jr.
Holden Pierre-Louis
Who: The Cleveland State Vikings (3-5) at the Missouri Tigers (7-0)
What: Game 8 of Missouri’s season
Where: Mizzou Arena (15,061)
When: Friday Nov. 28, 1 p.m.
TV: SEC Network+
SiriusXM: Home at 391
Radio: Tiger Radio Network: (Play-by-play Mike Kelly, Analyst Howard Richards, Sideline Chris Gervino)
Series: First meeting between the two teams.
