Mark Mitchell's Triple-Double Quest: Missouri's SEC Tournament Journey

0:00On March 13, Missouri Senior Forward, Mark Mitchell, earned second team all south these conference honors for the second straight year. The Kansas City native average 17.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and shot over 54 percent from. The field this season. Earlier this week, he followed a player of the week recognition on March 2 with a career high 32 points against Arkansas. That performance helped him become just the 49th Tiger to reach 1,000 career points, and only the 8th to do it in two seasons. Mitchell stands 8th in the league and scoring, and 4th in assists to turnover ratio during conference play. His 113 assists rank 6 nationally among players 6 foot 9 or taller. Last year on the 13th, he now joins Kobe Brown as the only Missouri players with multiple all south these conference nods. As team captain, Mitchell has guided the Tigers to a 20 win, 11 loss record overall, and 10 and 8 in conference.

1:01That secured the number 8 seed in the tournament this week in Nashville. Missouri faces the number 9 Kentucky, or number 16 LSU seed in the second round, on Thursday at 11.30am on the southeast conference. Network with Mitchell eyeing a rare triple double season stat line not seen since the 90s.