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Mizzou Athletics and Head Basketball Coach Frank Haith announced that the school will take 30 members of the Zou Crew leadership core,

Missouri Basketball’s official student fan group, to Baton Rouge, La., this week when the nationally-ranked Tigers battle LSU at the Pete Maravich Center on Wednesday.

Coordinated through the University’s Office of Campus Activities, the leadership core of the Zou Crew was tasked with the selection process for the trip.

“We are all so excited that the students have been given the opportunity to travel with the Mizzou Men’s Basketball Team,”

Assistant Director of Student Life Kathy Murray said. “It will allow them to support the team, and to learn about what goes on behind the scenes when a major athletic program travels.

The traveling students were asked to get prior approval from their teachers before missing class on Wednesday and must be in good academic standing.

“Academics are priority No. 1 for us,” Haith said. “Our team had above a 3.0 grade-point average last semester and I want to make sure the traveling students get proper consent before missing any class, just like our students-athletes will do.”

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