They wouldn’t call it March Madness if it made sense.
That much Kobe Brown all but predicted 24 hours before Missouri, the No. 7 seed on the South bracket, played No. 15 seed Princeton on Saturday.
“We’ve just got to be a team that gives the madness,” Brown said Friday.
Not quite.
Saturday’s 78-63 loss to Princeton couldn’t erase the milestone moments Mizzou produced during coach Dennis Gates’ debut season, but for all the promise the 25-win Tigers displayed the last five months, they weren’t immune to the cruel reality 67 teams face every March: The end always is painful.