This blog uses records and standings from before games played on Tuesday, Feb. 20.
If you didn’t know, Missouri State plays in the Missouri Valley Conference — nearly everyone reading this blog knows — but making sure for the stranglers.
At the end of the college basketball season, 36 conferences gather for their own conference tournaments, to create 36 conference tournament champions. All 36 conference tournament champions get an automatic reservation to the NCAA Tournament, the best tournament in all of sports.
Again. Mostly all of you know this.
I say this, however, to tie the importance of it to Missouri State’s season.