COLUMBIA, Mo. • Junior college basketball teammates Martavian Payne and Russell Woods both committed to Missouri on Saturday, Payne confirmed. Payne and Woods, teammates at John A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill., were both in Columbia for the weekend on official recruiting visits.
Payne, a 6-2 guard, played at Imagine Prep and Madison Prep in St. Louis. Woods, a 6-8 forward, is from Chicago.
Once they sign letters of intent, they'll officially join guards Cullen VanLeer and Terrence Phillips and forward Kevin Puryear in Missouri's 2015 recruiting class.