Within minutes of the announcement, Drake was already being pumped up.
Clark Kellogg, just moments after the NCAA Selection Show revealed a matchup between No. 6 Missouri and No. 11 Drake in the first round of the West Regional, pronounced that he liked Drake as a double-digit seed to knock off a presumed favorite.
This, in a vacuum, isn’t all that surprising. Double-digit seeds knock off higher seeds all the time. Especially on the 5-12 and 6-11 lines. But what followed Kellogg’s prediction has been a wave of analysis that almost belies the fact that Missouri opened (and remains) a -6.