I’m going to do my best to not talk about the officiating, which had a not-insignificant impact on the game. We here at ye ole Study Hall are a statistical based blog so we’re gonna talk about advanced statistical analysis and some stuff. Like...
Missouri had about an 8% free throw rate (technically 7.7% but the starboard I use rounds to the nearest 10th), Alabama had a 45% free throw rate. Our friend, Matt Wakins, had the details:
For context, Mizzou rates middle of the pack in DI, averaging a 29.