[NU Sports] Home Court Advantage

[Weinbaum, Willie]

The only issue I'd take with such a stat is that we also need to look at the road record.  If we also have among the worst road winning percentages, it would illustrate that we don't have a poor homecourt advantage, we simply have a team that hasn't been competitive - - home or away.

The context seems important.

Either way, things seem to be changing for the better. :)

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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Evans Schoeman
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:05 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] Home Court Advantage

Interesting table from Rivals.com.  According to this, we have the 5th worst home court winning percentage since 2005 among "big six" conference teams.  Penn State is the only other team on the "Top 10" list.

Even this year, we've lost 3 games at home, although each was to a team ranked at the time (Butler, MSU, Wisconsin).  This needs to change if NU expects to consistently compete for an NCAA berth.  It's just too difficult to win on the road in the Big Ten.

http://collegebasketball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1044138
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