Missouri Extends Dennis Gates’s Contract After Reaching SEC Tourney Semis

The Tigers are 23–8 and reached the SEC tournament semifinal for the first time.

Pat Forde | Mar 10, 2023

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Mizzou extended Dennis Gates’s contract on Thursday through the 2028-29 season. His original contract ran through ’27-28. His annual salary will increase to $4 million in ’23-24, with $100,000 increases each season through the life of the amended agreement.

The agreement was announced in a statement from the school which was released a couple hours after Missouri beat Tennessee to reach its first-ever SEC tournament semifinal.

Gates is 24–8 in his first season with the Tigers after arriving from Cleveland State. Missouri won 12 games last year under Cuonzo Martin and has not made it past the first round of the NCAA tournament since 2012-13, only reaching the Big Dance twice in that span.

Published Mar 10, 2023

PAT FORDE

Pat Forde is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who covers college football and college basketball as well as the Olympics and horse racing. He cohosts the College Football Enquirer podcast and is a football analyst on the Big Ten Network. He previously worked for Yahoo Sports, ESPN and The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. Forde has won 28 Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest awards, has been published three times in the Best American Sports Writing book series, and was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize. A past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and member of the Football Writers Association of America, he lives in Louisville with his wife. They have three children, all of whom were collegiate swimmers.