COVID-19 positive tests, contact tracing, and quarantined individuals within the University of Missouri women’s basketball program has postponed the Tigers game at Vanderbilt, originally scheduled for Sunday, January 2nd until Thursday, January 20th.
On Thursday night of last week, the unranked Tigers, with only eight scholarship players available, stunned then-No. 1 ranked South Carolina. Among the players missing for Mizzou were leading scorer Aijha Blackwell and sixth-man Izzy Higginbottom.
After scoring 21 points each in the upset of the Gamecocks, Mizzou’s Hayley Frank and Lauren Hansen, on Tuesday afternoon, were named Co-SEC Players of the Week. Hansen’s layup with 0.1 seconds remaining in overtime gave the Tigers the first-ever victory for the program against a #1 ranked squad.
In a related story, the Missouri men, dealing with their own issues with COVID-19, had to postpone Wednesday (January 5) night’s home game with Mississippi State. A make-up date has not yet been announced.
For the Missouri women, the postponement at Vanderbilt is the 7th in the Southeastern Conference receiving that fate over the first week of conference play.
The Missouri women are slated to host Auburn on Thursday night (January 6), with the next game for the MU men on Saturday afternoon against Alabama.
