David Hess

After undergrad years at Johns Hopkins, David went on to earn his MS in neuroscience at NYU, during which time he co-founded the now defunct HackTheBracket.com. While working as a data analyst for tech company Inuvo, he then started the college basketball blog The Audacity Of Hoops in his spare time, where his hidden agenda was to use numbers to prove that the Kansas Jayhawks were, are, and forever will be the best college basketball team in the universe. His blogging caught the eye of the TeamRankings crew, who happened to make contact with him just after a cross-country move.

Today, David is a quantitative and technical jack of all trades at TR, writing code for the site and their various analytical products, building and refining data models, doing ad-hoc analyses, answering questions about office pool strategy, and even still blogging now and then.