NCAA Tournament March Madness

#345 Missouri KC

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Projection: need to automatically qualify

Missouri KC’s nonconference slate has been unforgiving, with heavy road defeats at power-conference opponents like Texas and TCU and damaging setbacks at neutral and midmajor stops including Southern Illinois, Iona, Lindenwood, Weber State, and Eastern Washington, so the résumé arrives at Summit play with little in the way of quality wins and an offense that has struggled while the defense has been more serviceable. The most encouraging sign was a competitive home outing against Idaho State, but that isolated performance is outweighed by the array of poor results away from home. That imbalance makes the conference schedule their repair shop because it contains meaningful chances to flip the narrative: a home opportunity to avenge the earlier trip to Weber State, home dates against league rivals such as North Dakota and Oral Roberts, and road tests at places like Denver and South Dakota State can provide the high-value wins they currently lack. Given how their nonconference body of work looks, extracting those marquee league victories or a run through the conference tournament is the clearest path to changing how a committee would view the season.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/7@S Illinois117L101-78
11/11Iona173L105-91
11/15@Texas50L71-55
11/19@TCU58L81-45
11/24@Lindenwood249L80-67
11/29@Weber St209L82-61
12/3Idaho St158L68-59
12/6@E Washington240L90-66
12/10Weber St20929%
12/16@Oklahoma561%
12/18@Oklahoma St491%
12/21Austin Peay19126%
12/31@Denver28021%
1/3@NE Omaha24617%
1/8N Dakota St15119%
1/10North Dakota33255%
1/15@South Dakota28321%
1/17@S Dakota St17810%
1/24NE Omaha24635%
1/28Denver28041%
2/1@St Thomas MN1609%
2/4South Dakota28341%
2/12@Oral Roberts29424%
2/14St Thomas MN16021%
2/19@North Dakota33233%
2/21@N Dakota St1518%
2/26S Dakota St17824%
2/28Oral Roberts29444%