[NU Sports] Home Court Advantage

[Beamsley, Jeff]

In years past, we envied the home court atmosphere at places like  
duke.  Don't know what it was like in person, but on the TV, WR was  
rockin for the Illinois game and our kids said they fed off that  
energy. So you have to count that as progress too.

Jeff

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On Jan 26, 2010, at 11:22 AM, "Roy S. Lamberton" <rstetson at capps-assoc.com 
 > wrote:

> 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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> 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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