{"id":195532,"date":"2026-03-17T22:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195532\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:27:27","slug":"sbn-reacts-what-is-your-prediction-for-mizzou-vs-miami-fl-in-the-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195532\/","title":{"rendered":"SBN Reacts: What is Your Prediction for Mizzou vs Miami (FL) in the First Round?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Missouri fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/6Q70N2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019re inching closer to watching Missouri Basketball in the NCAA Tournament again as Mizzou and Miami (FL) will tip-off late Friday night in St. Louis \u2014 the last scheduled game to start in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Making the NCAA Tournament is becoming a regular occurrence under Dennis Gates as Missouri has now made it back-to-back years and three out of the last four seasons. The next step for this program is finding success in the postseason \u2014 and that opportunity starts on Friday night with a Mizzou-heavy crowd at the Enterprise Center. Can the Tigers take advantage of this situation?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/ncaab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Per the FanDuel odds<\/a> \u2014 No. 7 seed Miami (FL) comes in as 1.5-point favorites over 10-seeded Mizzou in the West Region first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Missouri has shown they can beat anybody in the country with wins over Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, and Texas A&amp;M, but their inconsistencies throughout the season have provided good reason why they\u2019re the underdog in this one. Meanwhile, Miami (FL) put together a more complete season in Year One under Jai Lucas going 23-8 (13-5 ACC) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earning a spot in the latest AP Top 25 poll at No. 25.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,53992],"class_list":["post-195532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mizzou-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}