Where to start?
If you listened to the most recent Dive Cuts pod, you’d have heard me making bold predictions about liking this matchup with Florida moreso than the matchup against LSU. From the outside, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Florida plays defense and they have elite guard play and the game was on the road. LSU doesn’t defend, have rim protection, and the game is at home for Missouri. But there are some things that just feel like intuition. Not very numbery, I know. But I just felt it.
Since joining the SEC, Missouri hasn’t had a lot of success against either program, but I feel like I’ve started to understand certain patterns of the SEC.