[NU Sports] Home Court Advantage

[Roy S. Lamberton]

Go back more than 5 years and it gets worse and worse...

Can't remember the year, but it was early in BC's tenure that he started
pushing "winning at home." He knew, as do most BKB coaches how hard it is to
win on the road.

In that "other" conference, the one we play every fall, there are teams who
have won national championships who still can't beat certain teams on the
road. Even now, an away win by Maryland over Duke is considered a cause for
celebration.

I just happened to be at the NU - Indiana game played on signing day a few
years back. It was one of the first games we'd won over Indy in what seemed
decades. I think that was when BC started talking about home court.

In any case, our guys seem to have become believers and are starting to
really defend W-R the way MSU and Wiscy defends theirs.

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Sportsbiz
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:23 AM
To: Weinbaum, Willie
Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Home Court Advantage

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/illi
ni-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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