Dennis Gates asserts his arguments.
Before the final of the regular Tigers N ° 19-15 season Saturday against the n ° 24/19 Kentucky in Mizzou Arena, the coach of the third year MU made an appearance on ESPN with Rece Davis to preview the match.
And, at the end of the interview, to campaign for the famous pre-match party of the network to make a trip to Columbia, Missouri, in the 2025-26 campaign.
“I want to invite Gameday to Missouri at some point next season,” Gates said. “It is an electrical atmosphere. You deserve to see it.
“I’m here,” said Davis. “It’s been a long time since we are there. Too long, we went there.
“I want to invite Gameday to Missouri at some point next season.” 👀
Missouri HC Dennis Gates on his tigers in front of Kentucky-Missouri 🙌 pic.twitter.com/ftukozxjm1
– College Gameday (@collegegameday) March 8, 2025
So that’s it. The opportunities were exhausted for the 2024-25 season, but a pin in ESPN hiking to the Como next year.
Tigers have a 21-9 file this season, but three defeats in their last four games have almost eliminated the AS team for a place among the first four in the SEC tournament. Mizzou, according to recent projections for national prognosticators, oscillate around a seeded for the NCAA tournament.
If there was a year for Gameday to visit the Missouri, it could have been this one.
Mizzou went 0-18 in the regular season of the dry last year, but organized one of the most remarkable rebounds of rebounds in the recent memory of university basketball. The Tigers have long trapped a return to the big dance, and until their recent collapse is a fashionable choice as a Mars of March.
The last time College Gameday visited Mizzou Arena, it was in February 2012, during the last season in the Big 12. The pre-match window went to Columbia for the last match of the Mu border war against Kansas while the two teams were in the same conference.
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There is no additional fanfare for the match on Saturday, because Gameday is in Chapel Hill, in North Carolina, to watch the Tar Heels play Duke.
Mizzou will face the Kentucky to close the regular season. The game will deposit at 11 am and broadcast on ESPN.
This article originally appeared on Columbia Daily Tribune: Missouri basketball coach Dennis Gates, pleads for the visit to the university
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