WILLIE SMITH
Guard
Lettered: 1975, 1976
One of the most prolific scorers in school history elevated his game against Mizzou's chief rival, once quite literally. On Feb. 18, 1976, Stan Ray missed a baseline jumper with two seconds to go. Smith wiggled through the wilderness of taller players to get a tip-in at the buzzer for a 61-60 victory. In five games against KU, "Mr. Magic" averaged 26.2 points — and never scored less than 25.
ANTHONY PEELER
Guard
Lettered: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992
Peeler scored 24 points in a win against top-ranked KU in 1990, but he was just getting started. As a senior, he dropped 73 points on Kansas in two games, including 43 in his final game. "I can't think of the right word," KU coach Roy Williams said while comparing Peeler to Michael Jordan. "I can say fantastic, unbelievable and all that garbage, but that doesn't give you the right image."
KIM ANDERSON
Forward
Lettered: 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977
On Feb. 9, 1977, Anderson sweetened the Tigers chances of a conference title by squelching KU's. Anderson fueled a 87-79 victory at Hearnes Center with a career-high 38 points that included 12 of Mizzou's 14 points as the Tigers pulled away in a seven-minute second-half stretch. The outburst punctuated a remarkable senior season for Anderson against KU (27.3 points per game in three outings).
DERRICK CHIEVOUS
Forward
Lettered: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988
The leading scorer in Mizzou history (2,580) points also has more points against Kansas than any Tiger in the past 60 years. Chievous had a stretch as a sophomore and junior in which he scored at least 26 points in four of MU's five games against Kansas. In nine career games against the Jayhawks, he scored 197 points.
ARTHUR JOHNSON
Center
Lettered: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
In the final home game of his Mizzou career — and the final game ever at Hearnes Center — Johnson was sublime with a career-high 37 points and eight rebounds against Kansas, though the Tigers wasted his effort with a last-second loss to the Jayhawks. Johnson averaged 14.6 points against KU in his career, but he finished with a binge, scoring 78 points in his final three games of the rivalry.
— Derrick Goold
Sources: Post-Dispatch archives, historian Tom Orf, Missouri sports information department.
