There’s been one drawback to Missouri’s increasing hoops hype for 2017-18: it meant I actually noticed when Joe Lunardi posted a mid-August Bracketology update at ESPN. That’s not something I’ve needed to worry about having on my radar of late.
Lunardi’s latest bracket is fascinating, though, for one simple reason: the team with the sixth-best odds of winning the national title, per Vegas, is one of his Last Four In, drawing St. Bonaventure in the play-in game for the right to play 6-seed Northwestern.
You can pretend to be disrespected by this, but it further illuminates the simple fact that we have no idea what to expect or how to create expectations for this team.