[NU Sports] Home Court Advantage

[Sportsbiz]

If it's been based on the more than the last couple of years, then we would
naturally have very little home court advantage because we couldn't win home
or away.  The last couple of years that is starting to change and will
continue to improve as the team improves.  In this article, Nash comments on
the crowd last Saturday.   I was going to link to it anyway because the
headline is priceless, especially since it comes from the Daily Ilini:

http://www.dailyillini.com/sports/basketball/mens-basketball/2010/01/24/illini-left-speechless-after-weekend-loss-to-wildcats

Mark


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Weinbaum, Willie <Willie.Weinbaum at espn.com
> wrote:

> 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. :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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