The Mizzou men's basketball team makes its first NCAA Tournament appearance in two years on Thursday when the No. 6-seeded Tigers face the No. 11-seeded Drake Bulldogs in Wichita, Kansas.
In Drake (30-3), which won the Missouri Valley Conference tournament at Enterprise Center in St. Louis, the Tigers must deal with the nation's slowest-paced team.
The Tigers (22-11) slipped to that sixth seed after a late-season slump, but they can make fans forget about that with a strong NCAA Tournament showing. Mizzou hasn't made it past the second round since 2008-09.
Mizzou and Drake have faced each other twice in the past 70 years, both Mizzou wins, one in Columbia and one in Des Moines, in the 1980s.