National Championships Eight Missouri State teams have been crowned national champions at all levels of competition during the first 106 years of intercollegiate athletics at MSU. The 2009-10 men’s basketball team became the most recent to claim a postseason national title, winning the College Insider.com Tournament (CIT). MSU national championship teams include:
Under the guidance of 18th-year head coach Melissa Stokes, the Missouri State volleyball team has continued a tradition of excellence that has made the Bears one of the winningest programs in all of Division I. The Bears have appeared in six of the last eight NCAA Tournaments, claiming MVC Tournament titles in 2005 and 2008 (above).
The 2010-11 Missouri State Bears captured the men’s basketball program’s first Missouri Valley Conference regular-season title, finishing with a 15-3 league mark and a 26-9 overall record after advancing to the second round of the National Invitation Tournament. The previous season, the Bears swept the CollegiateInsider.com Tournament field for the eighth national tournament title in MSU history.
2010 Men’s Basketball CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) 2005 Women’s Basketball National Invitational Tournament (WNIT) 1979 Women’s Field Hockey AIAW Division II 1974 Softball AIAW Division I 1974 Men’s Cross Country NCAA Division II 1963 Men’s Golf NCAA Division II 1953 Men’s Basketball NAIA National Tournament 1952 Men’s Basketball NAIA National Tournament MSU Athletics Highlights Missouri State sophomore swimmer Paul Le became the Bears’ first Division I AllAmerican after finishing 15th overall in the 200-yard backstroke on the final day of the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis. The Missouri State women became the first program in Missouri Valley Conference history to win six consecutive league titles, overpowering the field at the 2013 MVC Swimming & Diving Championships. The Bears won 11 events and picked up five NCAA provisional times on the weekend, led by co-MVC Swimmers of the Year Renata Sander and Dora Kiss.
The 2003 Baseball Bears shocked Nebraska and Ohio State in NCAA regional play to advance to the College World Series for the first time as a Division I program. Led by the program’s all-time winningest coach, Keith Guttin, and future Major Leaguers Shaun Marcum and Brad Ziegler, the Bears captured the MVC regular-season crown and finished the campaign with a 40-26 overall record.
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Bears’ junior pitcher Nick Petree became the first three-time All-American in MSU baseball history in 2013, posting an 8-1 mound mark and a 1.61 ERA. The Clinton, Mo., product was one of three Bears picked in the MLB Draft, going in the ninth round to St. Louis.
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