The third season of the Dennis Gates era in Columbia has netted the Missouri Tigers strong returns, with the SEC stalwart finishing the regular season with a 21-10 record to go with a 10-8 mark in conference play a year after the program bottomed out in an 0-18 conference campaign.
Entering conference tournament week, ESPN’s Joe Lunardi lists the Tigers as a fifth seed in the West region, playing 12th seed McNeese in the first round of the Big Dance, while KenPom.com has UM ranked 20th in the nation and the NCAA’s NET rankings have them 21st nationally, illustrating how strong of a rebound campaign Gates has led in Central Missouri after last year’s disaster of a season.
With that in mind, BetMissouri.com paused its Missouri sports betting updates and broke down the odds on where the Tigers will be seeded come March Madness, with a four seed being the most likely landing spot right now.
What Seed Will Missouri Be In NCAA Tournament?
Seed | Percentage Chance | Odds |
4 Seed | +2175 | 4.4% |
5 Seed | +880 | 10.2% |
6 Seed | +425 | 19.0% |
7 Seed | +280 | 26.3% |
8 Seed | +340 | 22.7% |
9 Seed | +975 | 9.3% |
The Field | +1135 | 8.1% |
Odds are exclusive to BetMissouri.com and unlikely to be available on Missouri sports betting apps once live.
Where Will Missouri Be Seeded?
As the SEC Tournament tips off, we have the Tigers down at +280 to fall on the seventh seed line in 2025, ranking just ahead of UM’s +340 odds of being an eighth seed and +425 odds of climbing back to the sixth seed line by Selection Sunday.
Missouri could also land as high as the fourth seed line, with +2175 odds of such an outcome occurring, or fall down to the ninth seed line by airtime on Sunday, with the latter outcome holding +975 odds of occurring right now.
For now, what we know is that Gates and his staff enter this week’s SEC Tournament opener on Thursday off a three-game losing streak, with Missouri falling to unranked Vanderbilt and Oklahoma before faceplanting against Kentucky at home in a 91-83 track meet in Saturday’s regular-season finale in the Show-Me State.
Author
Christopher Boan is a lead writer for BetMissouri.com, specializing in covering state issues. He has covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.
