So, last week a few of my tweets in response to Jesse Newell, the Kansas basketball beat writer for The Kansas City Star, received a little buzz on the old Twitter dot com website.
The reaction came from mostly from peeved Missouri fans, who wanted to Newell called out for omitting the Tigers from his top-25 ballot. Here’s his reasoning: MU’s resume was impressive — at the time the Tigers were 5-0 — but every analytics guru’s algorithm placed them well outside the rankings. Newell’s methodology has caused a stir, but I understand his broad thinking.