NCAA Tournament March Madness

#51 Missouri

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Projected seed: 10

Missouri’s placement reflects a résumé with clear signature upside tempered by damaging setbacks: the Tigers have shown they can win the hard games with road victories at Kentucky and at Texas A&M and useful road work at Mississippi State and South Carolina plus resume-enhancing home wins over Florida and Tennessee, but those highlights are offset by ugly results such as the neutral-site loss to Illinois and heavy defeats at Kansas and Alabama along with an earlier loss at Arkansas and a poor trip to Oklahoma that leave the profile inconsistent. A rematch with Arkansas offers a straightforward chance to erase a blemish and move the needle, yet the team’s ability to avoid another bad road showing and string together a couple more quality wins will determine whether this sticks as a solid at-large résumé or requires a deeper conference tournament run.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Howard201W88-67
11/7SE Missouri St226W89-84
11/9VMI360W106-68
11/12Minnesota72W83-60
11/17Prairie View312W91-73
11/20South Dakota278W102-68
11/25S Carolina St356W98-66
11/28Cleveland St323W86-59
12/2@Notre Dame87L76-71
12/7@Kansas20L80-60
12/11Alabama St317W85-77
12/14Bethune-Cookman235W82-60
12/22(N)Illinois5L91-48
1/3Florida4W76-74
1/7@Kentucky26W73-68
1/10@Mississippi78L76-69
1/14Auburn40W84-74
1/17@LSU62L78-70
1/20Georgia31L74-72
1/24Oklahoma47W88-87
1/27@Alabama18L90-64
1/31Mississippi St99W84-79
2/7@South Carolina98W78-59
2/11@Texas A&M37W86-85
2/14Texas33L85-68
2/18Vanderbilt15W81-80
2/21@Arkansas16L94-86
2/24Tennessee13W73-69
2/28@Mississippi St99W88-64
3/3@Oklahoma47L80-64
3/7Arkansas1635%