Gifts are commonplace on Christmas weekend, but that will be especially true for Missouri basketball fans this year.
The annual Braggin’ Rights game, a neutral-site men’s basketball battle against Illinois at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, is set for Saturday, Dec. 23.
The schools stoked the rivalry’s flames with a joint announcement on Twitter that included dueling shots across the bow from official school accounts.
Mizzou basketball plastered freshman center Jeremiah Tilmon — an East St. Louis (Ill.) graduate, who signed with the Fighting Illini before John Groce was fired and later signed with the Tigers instead — front and center, dunking on the iconic Gateway Arch in its announcement.