Report: Caleb Grill receives a medical hardship waiver, will return to Missouri

Caleb Grill will be back in CoMo following the latest news on his eligibility on Monday.

Per a spokesperson at Missouri, via Jon Rothstein, Grill has received a medical hardship waiver. That will allow him to return to the Tigers’ roster for the upcoming season, which will be his sixth collegiate year.

Grill played in nine games over his first season at Mizzou last season. He would then miss 23 over the remainder of the year due to a wrist injury that he suffered early in December. As the spokesperson added, though, he has fully healed and has since returned to all basketball activities with the team.

In his appearances with the Tigers, Grill averaged 8.4 points, 5.8 rebounds, 1.4 assists, and 1.1 steals. All four statistics were among the best on the roster, including being the team’s leading rebounder on the season.

Before transferring to Missouri, Grill had spent four other seasons at Iowa State and UNLV. He had two separate stints with the Cyclones that one year with the Rebels fit in between. However, his second run in Ames came to an end after Iowa State dismissed him due to “failure to meet the program’s expectations”.

Over 125 games, including 53 starts, with all three programs, Grill has posted 6.8 points, three boards, 1.4 assists, and a steal per game.

Grill was one of five transfers to come in from out of the portal last offseason for Dennis Gates. He joined their program alongside Tamar Bates (Indiana), Connor Vanover (Oral Roberts), John Tonje (Colorado State), and Jesús Carralero Martin (Campbell).

Report: Border War rivalry between Kansas, Missouri set for December 8th in Columbia

The Border War on the basketball court has been renewed between Kansas and Missouri over the past several years. Now, this upcoming season’s matchup between the two has a reported date and time.

Per a report by Jon Rothstein, the Jayhawks and Tigers will meet this year on December 8th. This meeting will once again be at one of the home sites with this edition taking place back in Columbia.

These two rivals used to play every season as members of the Big 12. In total, they have met 270 times since 1907 with it as the 10th-most played series in college basketball. KU holds the edge over Mizzou in those games with a record of 175-95 all-time.

The series went away for a time with Mizzou’s move to the SEC in 2012. However, the two programs agreed on a renewal that began again in 2021.

Since then, Kansas and Missouri have met three times with each of the trio being Jayhawk victories. KU won 102-65 in their first game back together on December 11, 2021 inside Allen Fieldhouse en route to eventually winning the national title that year. They then returned to earned 95-67 win on the road in ’22-’23 before it came back to Lawrence this past season and they won the closest margin of the three with a final score of 73-64. Still, the average margin of victory for these wins still comes out to 24.7 points in favor of Rock Chalk.