Mizzou Mania

MIZZOU-RAH! For basketball fans fond of Mizzou, this could be a good year for the tigers. Within the past five years, Kansas Citians have looked to the KU team as being the best in the area in basketball, and Mizzou coming out on top of KU in football. While this pattern will remain in the 2020-2021 NCAA seasons, Mizzou is proving to be better than prior years.

Kicking off their season in December beating highly ranked Illinois, the team had high confidence going into the new year. Currently ranked 13th in the country, they have only lost one of their eight games played. Kansas is coming out of last weekend ranked 6th, after losing as an upset to Texas. This is the closest these teams have been in the ranks in years, as Mizzou has not been ranked by the end of a season since 2012.

Fans are already speculating; will this team of Tigers get to be in on the excitement of March Madness? The team has not made it past the first round of postseason play since 2010, and in the past decade have only been in the tournament five times, most recently in 2018. Kansas has had much more success, making the tournament each year and being a top competitor. 

“I think Mizzou will make the tournament. They are a very deep team and have a lot of play makers. With the team they have this year, I would be very surprised if Mizzou didn’t make it to the tournament and beyond,” Trey Weith, Junior, said.

Locals throughout the area are rooting for the boys in black and gold, and looking forward to making March Madness bets for the first time since 2019.