On Selection Sunday, Missouri basketball will get what it deserves ⎸ McAndrew

Some bubbles are great. Bubblegum? Delicious. Bubble baths? Delightful. Bubble wrap? Don’t mind if I do. But this bubble? The challenging pack — and that’s a fast-and-loose use of the word ‘challenging’ — for the final at-large spots in the 2026 NCAA Tournament? The March Madness bubble that has 16-loss Auburn, a Texas team that’s 10-14 versus Quad 1-3 teams, an Oklahoma outfit that once was 1-9 in SEC play, a couple Mountain West teams who simply failed to seal their at-large future with sputtering finishes, swept-by-Northwestern Indiana, an SMU team that lost four straight to end the regular season and, yes, a skidding, slipping and sliding Mizzou squad on it? And they want to expand this...