Missouri basketball is going back to the NCAA Tournament, but its seed is likely to be lower than once predicted. Here's how Selection Sunday will impact the Tigers.

Tournament loss to the Florida Gators ended the Missouri Tigers’ dreams of an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, but rest assured, the Tigers will still be dancing regardless. It’s a position the Tigers weren’t anywhere close to at this time last year.

Here’s where Missouri basketball landed in the latest March Madness seeding projections, just two days before Selection Sunday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Gators shot the lights out on Mizzou’s SEC Tournament run. No. 7 seed Missouri basketball hung around for long stretches of Friday’s quarterfinals bout with the second-seeded Gators, but after never managing to fully track Florida down, the Tigers’ SEC Tournament is over.

Missouri basketball and Mississippi State traded blows in the second half, but Mizzou is moving on to the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament.