NCAA Tournament March Madness

#52 Missouri

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Projected seed: 11 (last four in)

Missouri’s résumé is built on a handful of resume-worthy moments and an equal number of bruising setbacks, so the team sits on the bubble; they boast a signature road win at Kentucky, solid home wins over Auburn and Oklahoma and a strong road showing at South Carolina, yet they also carry a neutral-site blowout loss to Illinois and heavy road defeats at Kansas and Alabama that undercut those highs. Many of the early wins came against low-major opponents and do little to erase the damage of those bad losses, and tight home victories like the one over Florida are helpful but hardly definitive without more success away from home. A brutal stretch against Texas, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi State and an upcoming trip to Oklahoma offers clear opportunities to flip the resume with a quality road or neutral win or to confirm the bubble status if Missouri splits that slate. Committees reward road and neutral wins and punish ugly losses away from home, and that precise mix of big victories and damaging setbacks explains why Missouri currently sits just inside the conversation.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3@Howard244W88-67
11/7SE Missouri St229W89-84
11/9VMI359W106-68
11/12Minnesota79W83-60
11/17Prairie View323W91-73
11/20South Dakota276W102-68
11/25S Carolina St358W98-66
11/28Cleveland St298W86-59
12/2@Notre Dame82L76-71
12/7@Kansas11L80-60
12/11Alabama St314W85-77
12/14Bethune-Cookman224W82-60
12/22(N)Illinois4L91-48
1/3Florida7W76-74
1/7@Kentucky31W73-68
1/10@Mississippi68L76-69
1/14Auburn30W84-74
1/17@LSU51L78-70
1/20Georgia37L74-72
1/24Oklahoma60W88-87
1/27@Alabama19L90-64
1/31Mississippi St86W84-79
2/7@South Carolina97W78-59
2/11@Texas A&M3326%
2/14Texas3447%
2/18Vanderbilt1432%
2/21@Arkansas2319%
2/24Tennessee1735%
2/28@Mississippi St8654%
3/3@Oklahoma6044%
3/7Arkansas2338%