Here’s where Missouri basketball is going for its 2025-26 season opener
The Tigers are going to the capital.
Missouri basketball announced Wednesday via its social media accounts that it will face Howard on Nov. 3 on the road in Washington, D.C., to open its 2025-26 campaign. It will mark the second straight season that the Tigers have started their season away from Mizzou Arena.
Mizzou, coming off a 22-12 season that ended in the first round of the NCAA Tournament with a loss to Drake, will play the second leg of what is likely a home-and-home agreement when it faces Howard in November.
The Tigers beat the Bison 77-62 at Mizzou Arena last season in their second game of the season. MU also opened its 2024-25 campaign on the road, losing at Memphis last Nov. 4.
The trip to Washington will mark the first game of head coach Dennis Gates’ fourth season with the program.
Howard, an HBCU coached by Kenneth Blakeney, finished last season 12-20 with a 7-7 mark in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Interestingly, former Washington Post sportswriter and Missouri School of Journalism graduate Tramel Raggs is on the Bison’s staff as an assistant coach.
The Bison play their home games at Burr Gymnasium on the Howard University campus.
Updated Mizzou basketball non-conference schedule
It is the fourth confirmed game on Mizzou’s 2025-26 nonconference schedule, although it is just the first with a confirmed date.
