Nebraska Women vs. Missouri

November 14, 2016

About The Event

Scouting No. 24 Missouri
The No. 24 Missouri Tigers come to Lincoln for the first time since joining the Southeastern Conference. One of Nebraska’s oldest and most frequent opponents, Missouri made its last visit to Lincoln on Feb. 22, 2011, when the Huskers rolled to a 76-34 win over its fellow Big 12 foe at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.

Nebraska joined the Big Ten for the 2011-12 season, while Missouri joined the SEC the same year. Overall, Nebraska owns a 40-31 advantage in the series with the Tigers, including four wins in the last five meetings.
Missouri opened Robin Pingeton’s seventh season as the Tigers’ coach with a 52-46 win over defending Southland Conference champion Abilene Christian on Friday in Columbia, Mo. Sophomore Sophie Cunningham led four Tigers in double figures with 13 points. Cunningham was MU’s leading scorer as a freshman in 2015-16, averaging 14.0 and 5.8 rebounds per contest.

Fellow sophomore Cierra Porter, a 6-4 forward, added a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds. Porter averaged 8.6 points and 5.4 rebounds as a freshman starter for the Tigers in 2015-16. Porter was an SEC All-Freshman selection a year ago.

Senior guard Sierra Michaelis gave MU three starters in double figures with 11 points and five boards. Michaelis averaged 8.5 points and 2.4 boards as a starter a year ago.

Fifth-year senior Lianna Doty pitched in 12 points off the bench as part of an eight-player rotation on Friday. Last season, Doty averaged 1.3 points and 1.2 rebounds per game.

In addition to Sophie Cunningham, Cierra Porter and Sierra Michaelis, Missouri’s fourth returning starter is guard Lindsey Cunningham. The fifth-year senior and older sister to Sophie, averaged 4.4 points and a team-high 3.3 assists last season. She opened 2016-17 with two points and two assists against Abilene Christian.

The Tigers, who went 22-10 overall last season, including an 8-8 SEC mark that was good for a tie for seventh in the conference, returned all five starters from a team that advanced to the second round of the 2016 NCAA Tournament. However, Missouri has encountered early season adversity with injuries to returning starter Jordan Frericks (12.1 ppg, 7.7 rpg in 2015-16) and key reserve Bri Porter (2.1 ppg, 2.0 rpg in 2015-16), the older sister of Cierra.

With the injury to her older sister, Cierra is wearing Bri’s jersey No. 4 this season, rather than the No. 21 she wore a year ago. Cierra also had offseason knee surgery.

The Tigers are also dealing with a hamstring injury to junior forward Kayla McDowell, who averaged 3.6 points and 2.8 rebounds last season. Touted freshman Jordan Roundtree injured a knee in practice last week, but was expected to play against Abilene Christian. She did not.

*Information from Huskers.com

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