Lack of Home Court Advantage

[HoosierPal]

What is amazing about home court advantage- had 8 BE games go to OT this year. Road team is 7-1 in those games.

Now that IS amazing.

[Letsgonova]

Villanova actually plays most BE games on-campus. We only typically play 3-4 games downtown at the Wells Fargo Center.

I do believe the large, half-empty pro arenas a good chunk of our membership plays in contributes to this. Seton Hall home games, for instance, are less intimidating than most good YMCA pick-up games. Same with DePaul.

I think some of the newcomers to the league may be struggling slightly with the concept that there are no nights off in the BE. That 13-10 St Johns team coming to town probably has several NBA players on it, and even bottom feeders have a star player or two who can go off and carry a team for a night. Can't look past anyone, and I think we've soon numerous instances of this so far this year.

Couple that with some general mediocrity, making most of these games are toss-ups to begin with, and it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that home teams aren't dominant.

[stever20]

What is amazing about home court advantage- had 8 BE games go to OT this year. Road team is 7-1 in those games.

Now that IS amazing.

But then combine that stat with this stat. BE has had 4 close games in regulation- 3 points or closer. Home team is 4-0 in those games. Go figure that combo out!!!!

Also, it's not like we are way out there...
A10 31-13 71.7%
SEC 41-17 70.7%
P12 37-17 68.5%
ACC 40-29 58.0%
AAC 26-19 57.8%
B12 26-19 57.8%
BE 27-21 56.2%
B10 31-25 55.4%

If anything you look at SEC, Pac 12, and A10 as the outliers. The other 5 are right there within 2.6% of each other. Pac 12 you kind of understand with how they schedule- with travel partners so teams have 2 game road trips each time they travel(except when they play their partner).

You would say the A10 and SEC don't have the parity, but then you look at the AAC and that kind of bucks that trend.

[Bluejay]

Home Court Advantage doesn't come with a venue; it derives from the crowds at those venues. If there aren't big crowds, the crowds aren't engaged or the crowds aren't fully supporting the home team, home court advantage vanishes.