Let’s start with some obvious facts. The goal when you enter each basketball contest is to win the game, right? Missouri has proven this year they’re pretty good at getting a W, and they collected another one last night against the LSU Tigers, moving their overall record to 17-5 and 5-4 in league play.
Since this is an analytics post, we talk a lot about KenPom.com, and BartTorvik.com and EvanMiya.com among others. Analytics will tell us a lot about how a thing happened. And how things happened is one of the key contributors to what’s holding Mizzou back in a lot of these predictive metric sites.