Finalized: Mizzou Tigers unveil 2022-23 men’s basketball schedule, SEC games included

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The Missouri Tigers men’s basketball program fitted the final piece of its 2022-23 season into place on Wednesday with release of its Southeastern Conference schedule.

Previously known aspects of the schedule had not included MU’s league games. The Tigers open their season Nov. 7 against Southern Indiana, the first of 13 nonconference games for Missouri in 2022-23.

The Tigers’ 18-game conference campaign begins Dec. 28 against Kentucky. Then comes the first leg of a home-and-home with southern neighbor Arkansas in Fayetteville on Jan. 4.

After a Jan. 7 home game against Vanderbilt, the Tigers will play back-to-back road games at Texas A&M (Jan. 11) and Florida (Jan. 14). The Razorbacks then visit Mizzou Jan. 18, and Alabama follows in Columbia on Jan. 21 before MU makes a Jan. 24 road trip to Mississippi.

Here’s what the rest of the SEC schedule looks like for Missouri in a conference featuring six new head coaches, including first-year Mizzou coach Dennis Gates:

  • home against LSU Feb. 1

  • at Mississippi State Feb. 4)

  • home vs. South Carolina Feb. 7

  • at reigning SEC Tournament champion Tennessee Feb. 11

  • at reigning SEC regular-season champion Auburn Feb. 14

  • home against Texas A&M Feb. 18

  • home against Mississippi State Feb. 21

  • at Georgia Feb. 25

  • at LSU March 1

  • home vs. Ole Miss March 4.

Game times and TV details will be announced at a later date by the SEC and its broadcast partners, according to a Mizzou news release.

Here’s the full 2022-23 men’s hoops schedule for the Tigers:

November: 7- Southern Indiana; 11- Penn; 13- Lindenwood; 15- SIUE; 20- Mississippi Valley St.; 23- Coastal Carolina; 26- Houston Baptist; 29- at Wichita State.

December: 4- Southeast Missouri St.; 10- Kansas; 17- at Central Florida; 22- Illinois (Braggin’ Rights, at St. Louis); 28- Kentucky.

January: 4- at Arkansas; 7- Vanderbilt; 11- at Texas A&M; 14- at Florida; 18- Arkansas; 21- Alabama; 24- at Ole Miss; 28- Iowa State.

February: 1- LSU; 4- at Mississippi State; 7- South Carolina; 11- at Tennessee; 14- at Auburn; 18- Texas A&M; 21- Mississippi State; 25- at Georgia.

March: 1- at LSU; 4- Ole Miss.

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