Sports – Thursday, January 8th 2026

The Salem Boys Basketball teams traveled to West Plains Tuesday for non-conference action. The Salem varsity team fell to the Zizzers, 69-42 to fall to 8-5 on the season, while the JV was victorious edging the Zizzers, 50-48 to improve to 4-2 on the year. The Salem Freshman Team lost to the Zizzers, 42-37 and they are 5-3 on the year. All three Salem Boys teams will travel to Sullivan to face the Eagles Friday night starting at 5:00 with the freshman game, the JV game will begin just after 6:00, and the varsity game will begin close to 7:30. You can hear the varsity game on KSMO Radio, and it will be audio streamed on ksmoradio.com, the KSMO Stream Facebook Page and the KSMO YouTube Page.  

The Salem Lady Basketball Tigers will host the Ava Bears tonight in their first SCA Conference match of the season. The Salem Lady JV Tigers will start things out at 6:00 followed by the varsity contest near 7:30. KSMO Radio will carry the girls’ varsity contest starting around 7:20 with Tiger Talk and Coach Cody Woody, and it will also be video streamed on ksmoradio.com, the KSMO Stream Facebook Page, and the KSMO YouTube Page. Salem enters the game with a 4-6 record and Ava is 1-9 record on the season.

The undefeated Bunker Eagles and Lady Eagles Basketball teams will participate at the Legends Shoot-Out this Saturday at the Mountain View-Liberty High School gym with the Lady Eagles playing Alton at 2:30 with the boys’ game to follow with Mountain Grove at 4:00.

For the first time in their history the Mizzou Basketball Tigers left Rupp Arena with a victory over the Kentucky Wildcats, 73-68. Mizzou’s next game will be against Ole Miss this Saturday.

The St. Louis Blues, who haven’t been at or above the .500 mark since very early in the season missed another opportunity to do so against the Chicago Blackhawks last night, as they fell 7-3. The Blues are heading to the Beehive State on Friday to face the Utah Mammoth.