SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Missouri’s basketball team bounced back after a tough second season under Dennis Gates, making the NCAA Tournament last year but losing in the first round to Drake. T

hey reached No. 14 in the AP Top 25 in early March. Caleb Grill and others have left, but Mark Mitchell returns with a top recruiting class. Sebastian Mack, a transfer from UCLA, is expected to boost the backcourt. Missouri’s non-conference schedule includes games against Notre Dame, Kansas, and Illinois. The SEC schedule starts tough with games against Florida and Kentucky.

,The Tigers bounced back from a disastrous second season under Dennis Gates, when they went 0-for-everything in the SEC, to make the NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Drake in the first round. It was a tough ending to a season

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