Ressel and Lions Quickly Into The Off-season and Recruiting.

As quickly as the season ended in Kansas City at the MIAA Tournament with a loss to Central Oklahoma – the off season has already begun for head coach Ronnie Ressel and the Lions. It was a roller coaster year for Southern last season as they finished the campaign with a 14-16 (6-13 in the …

Lions Baseball Ranked 12th, Leading MIAA

To understand what makes the next two series for the Missouri Southern baseball team so important, you need to understand what's been happening for the team so far this year. The Lions have ridden strong pitching and power hitting to a 21-7 start to the 2019 campaign and find themselves ranked No. 12 in the …

MSSU’s Martin Named Bevo Francis Award Watch List Finalist

  Missouri Southern sophomore forward Cam Martin has advanced to the final 25-players to be considered for the Bevo Francis Award recognizing the best player in small college basketball. Last season Lincoln Memorial’s Emanuel Terry took home the prize named after legendary scorer Clarence “Bevo” Francis of Rio Grande College (now the University of Rio …

If Mascots Determined Seeding…

The NCAA Division II Men’s Tournament is always exciting and it’s always a tough job every year to select the at-large teams and seed them along with the conference tournament champions. Not that we want to make that task even more difficult... but we are going to anyway. Along with all the criteria currently being …

3 Questions In The Lane with Jeff Boschee

DB: Let’s go back a bit. Now that you’ve had time to reflect on the loss to Pitt State at the MIAA Tournament. Was it as simple as just a horrible shooting night? JB: We took a lot of tough shots. I mean, there was a span in the first half where, I want to …

2019 NCAA Division II Men’s Basketball Central Regional Preview

As we get ready for the NCAA Division II Tournament to begin on Saturday – here is a breakdown of the Central Regional field that Missouri Southern will face as they try and work their way toward the Elite Eight in Evansville, Indiana.#1 Northwest Missouri State BearcatsRecord: 32-0Location: Maryville, MissouriConference: MIAA (Automatic bid as conference …

MIAA TOURNAMENT: MSSU vs Pitt State LiveThread

Keep a tab open on your computer and hit refresh regularly... This will be a stream of consciousness thread during the Lions' first round matchup vs the school to the west.   2:28pm- "I saw both games, Southern is NOT that good!" -Pitt State fan behind me... Southern won both matchups this season by an …

2019 MIAA Tournament Preview: Men’s Bracket Edition

The MIAA Tournament starts on Wednesday at historic Municipal Auditorium in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

Could non-conference football return to the MIAA?

Non-conference play is something that fans from all around the league have wondered about since 2013 when the league moved to the closed format scheduling. Suddenly, it looks like it may be closer than we all thought. This week, the MIAA announced that they had formed a task force to explore the feasibility of adding …

Resurrecting the Lions: Offseason

It’s been a rough go for the Missouri Southern football program for the last… let’s just say a long time. I could throw absurd numbers at you to illustrate this point but, if you’ve found your way to this blog you don’t need them; you already know. The word that could best be used to …