The Kansas City Roos men's basketball team represents the

University of Missouri–Kansas City The University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) is a public research university in Kansas City, Missouri. UMKC is part of the University of Missouri System and one of only two member universities with a medical school. As of 2020, the university ...

Kansas City The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more ...

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. The school plays in the

Summit League The Summit League, or The Summit, is an NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletic conference with its membership mostly located in the Midwestern United States from Illinois on the East of the Mississippi River to the Dakotas and Nebraska on the W ...

after completing a seven-season tenure in the

Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington (state), Washington, and Texa ...

(WAC) in July 2020. The team has never played in the

NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as NCAA March Madness and commonly called March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from ...

. The Roos are led by head coach

Marvin Menzies Marvin Eugene Menzies (born October 15, 1961) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head men's coach at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Menzies was hired on April 26, 2022 after former coach Billy Donlon resigned t ...

. The team returned to Municipal Auditorium for the 2013–14 school year after a brief stint of playing on campus at Swinney Recreation Center. The team made their first Division I postseason appearance in the 2017

College Basketball Invitational The College Basketball Invitational (CBI) is a men's college basketball tournament created in 2007 by The Gazelle Group. The inaugural tournament occurred after the conclusion of the 2007–08 men's college basketball regular season. The CBI s ...

Conference affiliations

* 1969–70 to 1985–86 – NAIA Independent * 1986–87 to 1993–94 – NCAA Division I Independent (no team during the 1986–87 school year) * 1994–95 to 2012–13 –

* 2013–14 to 2019–20 –

* 2020–21 to Present – Summit League

Athletic brand names

* Kansas City Kangaroos (1954–1963) — At the time, UMKC was known as the University of Kansas City (short form KCU). * UMKC Kangaroos (1963–2019) — KCU joined the University of Missouri system in 1963, adopting its institutional name at that time. * Kansas City Roos (2019–present)

Postseason

CBI

The Roos (then nicknamed Kangaroos) appeared in one

(CBI). Their record is 1–1.

NAIA Tournament results

The Kangaroos appeared in one NAIA Tournament. Their record is 0–1.

Former Kangaroos in the NBA

Tony Dumas Tony Dumas (born August 25, 1972) is an American former professional basketball player. College career Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dumas played collegiately at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), whose athletic program is now known as t ...

Trey McKinney-Jones Trey McKinney-Jones (born August 27, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for Gunma Crane Thunders of the B.League. He played college basketball for the UMKC Kangaroos (now known as the Kansas City Roos) and the Miami Hurricanes. ...

References

External links

Official Website
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