What does Missouri basketball now need to do to make NCAA Tournament?
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All of those missed free throws may have burst Mizzou’s bubble. If you happened to record Missouri basketball’s percentage chance to make the NCAA Tournament on both Tuesday and Wednesday morning, before and after the Tigers went 8-of-23 at the free-throw line in a 90-64 loss at Alabama on the road Tuesday night, you’ll have noticed a significant drop. On Tuesday on the analytics site Bart Torvik, Missouri had a 17.1% chance to make the 68-team field in the site’s T-Ranketology metric, which is based on 10,000 simulations for the remainder of the season. That made Missouri the fifth team out of the field, which is still very much in the Big Dance bubble conversation. On Wednesday, those odds...