Quotes & Notes: POW, POD

■ Kyle Gibson has been named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week, according to Big12Sports.com:

Gibson recorded his first career nine-inning shutout as MU defeated No. 1 Texas, 2-0, last Saturday in the opener of the three-game series in Austin. He struck out 11 batters and gave up six hits, improving to 3-1 on the year. Prior to last weekend's triumph, Gibson has had two seven-inning complete games in his career. Gibson has an ERA of 0.90 on the year, striking out 38 batters in 30.0 innings pitched.

■ Gibson also was named the National Player of the Week by the NCBWA

■ Everyone's favorite fan, Larry Wyatt, has taken several photos so far this season, including shots from the first 5 home games, plus from the UT series. He has posted them in his photo album on Facebook. So if you're on Facebook, look him up, make him a "friend" (Larry is every MU Baseball fan's friend) and you'll be able to access his pictures

■ A Longhorn Fan on Tigerboard.com has a few observations from the MU-UT series just concluded:

Let's face it, a big 12 team probably isn't going to win many 3-game series
scoring only 9 runs. But it is doable if the competition only scores 5.

■ The Longhorns are still the darling of Baseball America, hanging onto their #1 ranking in spite of losing a game to Missouri. The fact that the guys at BA think mighty highly of the Tigers' Kyle Gibson probably explains that a lot.

■ Baseball America's Aaron Fitt had this to say about Mizzou in the weekly Top 25 Chat:

The most significant thing to come out of this weekend for Missouri is that Nick Tepesch was very good again in Sunday's loss. Missouri will win most series withGibson and Tepesch throwing the way they did this weekend.