Beyond the Box Score: Anatomy of an Upset

Missouri came into the game as 14.5-point underdogs and left as 4-point victors. At no point in the week leading up to the game did any of us here at Rock M, myself included, think that Missouri would pull off the upset but I did lay out a blueprint on how it could be done. I want to dive deeper into the actual keys that won the day but, first, I want to go over the keys that I laid out.

In keeping with the format, let’s take a quick look at the advanced box score first:

I’m going to dive into this a lot as we go through this piece but, until then, here it is in full form.