MU Basketball Fun Facts

• 1939: The first NCAA Tournament was played.

• 1956: Alfred Abram was the first African-American awarded an athletic scholarship to MU.

• 1977: The first post-season Big 8 Tourney. Previously the tournament was played before the season began. It was called the Holiday Tournament which had begun in 1946.

• 1978, 1982, 1987, 1989, 1991, and 1993: years MU won the Big 8 Tournament.

• 1980-83: years MU won four straight Big 8 titles.

• 5: number of alumni that have come back to coach (Craig Ruby 1920-1922; George Bond 1922-1926; George Edwards 1926-1946; Norm Stewart 1967-1999; and Kim Anderson 2014-2017).

• 23: longest away game winning streak from 1921 to 1923; broken by the Kansas City Athletic Club.

• 34: longest homecourt winning streak from 1988 to 1990; broken by Arkansas.

• 634: number of games Coach Stewart has won in 32 years at MU. He won more games for MU than were won from 1907 to 1967 (630).

• 1,106: number of games Norm Stewart has coached. 28 other coaches in NCAA history have coached more.

• 1,127 played at MU involved Stewart as a player, assistant, and coach.

• MU has played KU in 267 games (as of February 2012). KU has won the majority with 172 to MU's 95.

1. Tigers Thru the Hoop
2. Coaches of the Hardwood
3. Places Tigers Play
4. NCAA

Sources: Savitars; www.ncaa.org; "Big Eight Basketball, Celebrating a Tradition, 1907-1996" VHS tape; Missouri Basketball Yearbook 1999-2000; University of Missouri-Columbia Buildings Inventory Form; "Seven Students of Old M.S.U. Started First Tiger Basketball Team Twenty-One Years Ago" The Missourian Magazine February 4, 1928; University of Missouri News Service April 2, 1934; Gary Filbert of the Show-Me State Games

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Originally Prepared by Emily McIlvoy: March 2001
Revised: 18 August 2017
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