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Missouri Tigers
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University University of Missouri
Conference SEC (primary)
MAC (wrestling)
NCAA Division I/FBS
Athletic director Jim Sterk
Location Columbia, Missouri
Varsity teams 18
Football stadium Faurot Field ("The Zou") at Memorial Stadium
Basketball arena Mizzou Arena
Baseball stadium Taylor Stadium
Other arenas Hearnes Center
Mascot Truman the Tiger
Nickname Tigers
Fight song Fight, Tiger
Colors Black and Old Gold
         
Website www.mutigers.com
Mizzou Athletics wordmark.svg

The Missouri Tigers athletics programs include the extramural and intramural sports teams of the University of Missouri, located in Columbia, Missouri, United States. The name comes from a band of armed guards called the Fighting Tigers of Columbia who, in 1864, protected Columbia from guerrillas during the Civil War.

The University of Missouri (often referred to as Mizzou or MU) is the flagship institution of the University of Missouri System. Mizzou is a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and is the only NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision program in Missouri. Its wrestling program, the only one sponsored by an SEC member school, competes in the Mid-American Conference.

Prior to joining the SEC in 2012, Missouri was a charter member of the Big 12 Conference, which was created with the merger of the former Big Eight Conference and four schools from the former Southwest Conference (one of these schools, Texas A&M, joined the SEC with Missouri in 2012), and which began athletic competition in the 1996–97 academic year. Missouri competed in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association starting in 1907, which officially changed its name to the Big Eight Conference in 1964.

The Missouri Tigers are represented in the following NCAA Division I varsity sports:


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