Mizzou hoops offers peek at analytics process: 'A different perspective to see the game'

The Post-Dispatch's Eli Hoff and Ben Frederickson discuss potential approaches for Missouri to take as it looks for a quarterback in the transfer portal this offseason.COLUMBIA, Mo. — Tucked in a media room within the bowels of Mizzou Arena, Missouri men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates and his staff did something unprecedented Thursday afternoon.

He taught a class to reporters. Basketball Analytics 101, you could call it.

For 75 minutes, Gates, assistant coach Ryan Sharbaugh and two consultants from HD Intelligence — the advanced and proprietary statistics service that MU contracts with for proprietary data — opened the books for reporters to explore the numbers used by the team and ask…