Three Kansas City-area women’s basketball teams will learn their NCAA Tournament seeds Monday when the bracket is revealed at 5 p.m. on ESPN.
Missouri State earned an automatic berth by winning the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament on Sunday and Missouri and Kansas State are expected to make the Big Dance as well.
It will be the Bears first appearance since 2016. The Wildcats should return to the NCAA Tournament after a narrowly missing it last season. Missouri should make its fourth straight appearance.
The Tigers enter the tournament with a sense of urgency after getting upset in the first round by Florida Gulf Coast, a No.