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Missouri basketball’s March Madness opponent is Drake to open 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket
Hey, Drake.
One year after a winless conference season, Missouri basketball is back in the Big Dance.
The Tigers’ turnaround became official Sunday when Mizzou learned it will be a 6-seed and face Drake in the Round of 64 of the 2025 NCAA Tournament. The game will take place Thursday, March 20, in Wichita.
On the other side of the pod, 3-seed Texas Tech and UNCW will face off for a spot in the second round. The announcement was made during the Selection Sunday show on CBS. Missouri held a live watch party at Mizzou Arena during the show.
Whoever wins two games in Wichita will travel to San Francisco for the Sweet 16 as part of the West Regional.
The tipoff time for Mizzou’s first-round game will be announced later Sunday by the NCAA.
The Tigers are only the third high-major team ever to rebound from a winless conference season and make the NCAA Tournament field the next year. Iowa State managed the feat in 2020-21. Maryland did it in 1987-88.
And after a 0-19 SEC season in 2023-24, Mizzou has done it in 2024-25.
Mizzou (22-11) had several signature wins on its résumé in the 2024-25 season. The Tigers beat then-No. 1 Kansas in the Border War in December, a top-five Florida team on the road in January, and secured a third top-five win of the season over Alabama in mid-February at Mizzou Arena.
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But after building a résumé that was competing for a top-four seed in the tournament, Missouri’s season entered somewhat of a lull.
The Tigers lost three straight games to close the regular season before beating Mississippi State on Thursday and falling against Florida on Friday in the SEC Tournament. Mizzou has now lost five of its past seven games entering March Madness.
Mizzou played without All-SEC forward Mark Mitchell against the Gators, as the forward sat out with a right knee injury. After the game, Mizzou coach Dennis Gates said it was his choice to sit Mitchell, who wanted to play.
It seems likely that the Tigers’ leading scorer will return to play in the Big Dance, meaning MU should enter the tournament at full strength.
Gates has often mentioned that this team has Final Four ambitions this season.
Now, the Tigers are officially getting their shot to prove that’s not just talk.
The road starts with Drake.
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But some business owners are among those supporting the new law.
”The voters, and now the Court, have spoken. It’s time to fully implement Prop A,” Mike Draper, owner of a RAYGUN clothing and design store in Kansas City, said in a statement.
In its written ruling, the Supreme Court said the initiative’s summary statement was sufficient and fair and those suing had failed to present any evidence that voters were misled. Any omissions in the cost estimate were not substantial enough to require a new election, the court said.
Business groups also had claimed the ballot initiative violated a state constitutional requirement to contain only a single subject and clear title. The Supreme Court declined to consider that argument, saying it must first be brought up in a lower court.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A fight Monday night that involved several people inside a Kansas City, Missouri, store ended with gunfire and one man dead.
Police were sent to a shooting call just before 6 p.m. at East 9th Street and Prospect Avenue, according to a news release from the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department.
They arrived at the store in less than a minute and found a man in the store’s parking lot who had been shot.
The victim died a short time later at a hospital, according to the news release.
Officers were told several people went into the store and got into a “physical altercation” with a man inside the store before gunshots were fired.
Several people were taken into custody and will be questioned about the homicide.
The victim has not been identified.
This was the 50th homicide of the year in Kansas City, Missouri. There were 43 homicides in Kansas City, Missouri, at this time a year ago.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An argument may have led to gunfire and a homicide Sunday afternoon at a house in east Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas City, Missouri, police officers were sent at about 3:30 p.m. on a shooting in the 3100 block of Spruce Avenue.
The were led inside a house by people at the scene, according to a police department news release. They found an adult male inside with life-threatening gunshot wounds. He died a short time later at a hospital. The suspects left the house before officers arrived. The victim's name had not been released as of Sunday night. __
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