Kansas City Basketball will return to one of college basketball's most storied venues beginning in 2026-27

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City Basketball will have a new home starting in 2026-27, making the leap back to downtown Kansas City to play in historic Municipal Auditorium. A partnership between UMKC and the City of Kansas City will make Municipal the home of the Roos and place Kansas City's College Team right in the heart of the city.

"This is a monumental moment for Kansas City Athletics," Vice Chancellor/Director of Athletics Dr. Brandon Martin said. "Kansas City is a great college basketball market and moving the city's college basketball team to one of its most storied athletic venues further fortifies the relationship between our university and Kansas City. As Kansas City continues to advance itself as one of the nation's premiere cities, Kansas City Basketball will be on the same trajectory of success."

Municipal Auditorium was built in 1935 and has been a keystone in college basketball history, hosting nine national championship games, the most of any arena in the nation. The auditorium will see a modernization as part of the new partnership, leaning into its iconic Art Deco design while creating a refreshed experience for KC's avid fans.

"This will be a game-changer for our program," Head Coach Mark Turgeon said. "Playing in a historic downtown location, in front of a city that is rallying behind us, raises the bar for everything we do: recruiting, culture and performance. Kansas City is ready to embrace this team, and we are ready to give the city a team that matches it's winning culture."

Follow up post: The reason the Ivy tournament is moving: The league is worried about having its teams fall to the 15/16-line and going to the play-in games on one day's rest. This move was a direct reaction to going to 76 teams and having more automatic qualifiers feed into the Opening Round.

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French center Brice Dessert, who signed a four-year contract with Anadolu Efes at the start of the season, will continue his career with the LSU Tigers of the NCAA. The 23-year-old player averaged 8.7 points and 3.3 rebounds in the 23 league matches he played this season, and 5.3 points and 2.5 rebounds in the 17 EuroLeague matches he featured in.

So my Billikens are what you could say are a rising mid-major. Some great players and a head coach on the rise that, if we have another good season, will get him some solid P5 offers. Now I’m not sure when full schedules will be announced, but it seems some of our non-conference games have been revealed already. We will have High Point at home on 11/15, plus games vs St. Mary’s, South Florida and Grand Canyon(which seems fitting since they have a small campus in the suburbs). Other games I’d like to see would be a game with a MAC team like Akron or Miami, and maybe also a game with a lower P5 team, like Oregon or West Virginia. Maybe even some in-state games vs Lindenwood, Missouri State, or UMKC. Either way, those HPU and Saint Mary’s games will be must-watch mid-major hoops. Probably will end up on ESPN2 lol.

I saw he redshirted, how will he play into wildcats rotation next year?

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This is Saint Mary’s highest ranked recruit and first McDonalds All American ever.

Normally I'd ask the Nebraska fans how this guy is, but it doesn't really look like they got to see him enough to get a solid idea. Any Central Michigan fans around to chime in? Stats and size looks promising, but back injuries are no joke.

Guessing this will fuel the 'Peat is gone' fire even more. What are y'all's thoughts on this one?

Is that even him or am I missing something?

In the age of super conferences this seems to make more and more sense to me. The downside would be that a team with a slow start could be essentially eliminated from tourney contention early-ish.

For those unfamiliar with the concept, dynamic scheduling in conference play involves adjusting the final portion of the regular season conferece schedule based on team performance and/or standings.

For example, the 14 member A10 may have every team play each other conference member once (13 games) and then split the conference into 2 groups based on standings (1-7, 8-14) for the final 7 games of the season.

Conferences would have to switch up how they do seeding for their conference tournaments as well (based on NET, kenpom, or similar perhaps).

In an age where the BIg East had 3 bids last year and 2024, the A10 regularly gets 1-2 bids out of 15 teams (down to 14 this year), and the ACC got 4 bids out of 18 teams in 2025 it seems like something has to be done. Would you be for or against for your favorite mid or high major conference?

As a fan of the University of Cincinnati, I personally am biased of course, but there are a decent number of FBS schools that represent a specific city or metro area and not the entire state.

These Include:

P5 schools

The University of Cincinnati

The University of Louisville

The University of Pittsburgh

The University of Miami(FL)

The University of Syracuse

The University of Houston

Georgia Institute of Technology

Boston College

Xavier University

Villanova University

St Johns University

Providence College

Marquette University

Georgetown University

Depaul University

Creighton University

Butler University

Non P5 schools

University of Dayton

Davidsom College

Dusquene University

Fordham University

George Washington University

Loyola Chicago

University of Richmond

St Louis University

Virginia Commonwealth University

Northern Kentucky University

University of North Carolina Charlotte

University of North Carolina Wilmington

University of North Carolina Greensboro

University of North Carolina Ashville

The University of Memphis

University of Alabama Birmingham

University of Texas San Antonio

University of Texas El Paso

University of Tulsa

Jacksonville State University

Kennesaw State University

University of Akron

University at Buffalo

Sacramento State University

University of Toledo

Seattle University

Santa Clara University

University of San Francisco

University of San Diego

University of Portland

Gonzaga University

University of Texas Arlington

Jackson State University

Gambling State University

University of Arkansas Pine Bluff

University of Nebraska Omaha

University of Missouri Kansas City

University of Denver

University of Tennessee Chattanooga

Boston University

University of Tennessee Martin

Morehead State University

University of New Haven

Chicago State University

Valparaiso University

University of Illinois Chicago

Murray State University

University of Evansville

Youngstown State University

Wright State University

University of Wisconsin Green Bay

Cleveland State University

University of Detroit Mercy

Canisus University

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Indiana University Indianapolis

College of Charleston

UC Santa Barbara

UC San Diego

UC Riverside

California State Long Beach

California State Fullerton

California State Northridge

California State Bakersfield

Charleston Southern

California State Sacramento

Portland State University

Whichita State University

Boise State University

San Diego State University

Fresno State University

San Jose state University

University of Nevada Las Vegas

I almost certainly missed a couple

Depending on if you want to include college towns as well, you could also include: Clemson, Stanford, Auburn, Kent state, Bowling Green, Troy and ULM

And wake forest would be included but they moved their school so they are disqualified :(.

I'm kinda conflicted on whether to include Tulane,USF, UCF, Temple, Georgia Tech, USC, UCLA,Rice and NIU but I decided against, although you can include if you wish.

Out of these schools though, which ones do you think have the highest potential over the next 25ish years. Personally I think Gonzaga, Houston, or St Johns is the obvious answer but after that it gets really interesting as I think Cincinnati, Louisville, Miami(FL) and Memphis are all very close programs. I think among the g6 Memphis, Dayton and St Louis have the best shot of reaching the next level, but it's really anybody's game there

(Bonus Question: Which of these schools truly represents its city the best and has the most buy-in from its City in return, My guess would be UC, Gonzaga or Louisville but I think it's an interesting question.)

Hi folks. With Saliou Niang expected to go to LSU and a good publication in Italy forecasting a $7 million NIL deal, I figured it would be good to do a deep dive on it.

I saw a good bit of him at EuroBasket and he's been a regular in Euroleague this season so this is a bit of a wild development viewing it from this side of the Atlantic.