Who Has The Best Home Court Advantage in the Big East?

[bigeastbiggerstage]

https://thebrokenanchor.com/who-has-the ... -big-east/

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Thoughts on this one?

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[Novachap]

I think you were close... but your list was home court ADVANTAGE, right? Don't let math (or hate) get in the way! 96-9... that is all.

That said home court EXPERIENCE is different. I could definitely see X and Creighton at the top of that list.

[Omaha1]

Just as the author has obvious bias, we all have ours as well.

Nova has been the best team and therefore should have the best record obviously. I think the issue with Nova is playing in two different arenas... which one are we talking about because those are two very distinct venues. Same for a couple of others.

In my opinion the best way to find home court advantage is to look at some analytics. If a school outperformed what was expected, for example, if Butler was expected to lose to Nova, but won at home, there’s probably some home court advantage involved.

My hunch is that Butler, Creighton, and Xavier are all probably at the top of the list. Nova should win most of their games at home so it’s a little harder for me to credit the home court in their case if that makes sense.

[Novachap]

Just as the author has obvious bias, we all have ours as well.

Nova has been the best team and therefore should have the best record obviously. I think the issue with Nova is playing in two different arenas... which one are we talking about because those are two very distinct venues. Same for a couple of others.

In my opinion the best way to find home court advantage is to look at some analytics. If a school outperformed what was expected, for example, if Butler was expected to lose to Nova, but won at home, there’s probably some home court advantage involved.

My hunch is that Butler, Creighton, and Xavier are all probably at the top of the list. Nova should win most of their games at home so it’s a little harder for me to credit the home court in their case if that makes sense.

Yes, absolutely that makes sense. It can become a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing though. By being expected to win you can't get any "credit" for winning at home and holding serve. Up until last year, in most cases Xavier was pretty much the favorite at home against every team except Nova. Creighton certainly is the favorite in most games, particularly last year. So, it really is difficult to figure out statistically who has the best home court advantage. It probably comes down to where do teams really dislike playing!

[Hall2012]

Personally, I would put both Nova (the Pavillion specifically) and and Creighton ahead of X. It's a good atmosphere, but I've never had that "oh shit, @X, proabably a loss" feeling that I've had with the other 2. There's been a couple years feeling that way about playing X just because they had really good teams, but never felt that playing them on the road was significantly more difficult.

I also think the Prudential Center is way too high. It's a beautiful building but not a great home court advantage. It's huge - making it not difficult for visiting fans to get in (and very school has plenty of NY-metro area alumni), has comfortable professional quality locker rooms, and being designed for hockey means the crowd is a good distance from the court. Great place to play, but not things that build a home court advantage. SHU's recent success there has more to do with how good their teams have been.

Finally, if you're going to exclude MSG and call Carnesseca's SJU's home court - that ranking is absurd and frankly makes no sense. That band box is easily top-3 toughest places to play in this conference and may be number 1. Don't be fooled by SJU just having a weak team recently. On the other hand, if you do consider MSG - I would agree with the ranking for pretty much the same reasons I think the Prudential Center is too high.

[Django]

Creighton is about right, the bonus points we get for dollar beer night are subtracted by our putrid blue crew. X is well deserved in part thanks to this guy...

[Xudash]

Creighton is about right, the bonus points we get for dollar beer night are subtracted by our putrid blue crew. X is well deserved in part thanks to this guy...

His name is Bill Strietman, and he is a great guy. Funny as hell.

I'll end this conversation right now: how much alcohol flows at every building during gameday? Not just beer - everything (beer, liquor and wine). It's not that I have a marinated liver and that i'm losing focus here, but the Cintas Center architect set it up as a dispensary. Hell, they even resurrected the Norwood Cafe, placing it up on the upper deck as a bar.

[Omaha1]

I'll end this conversation right now: how much alcohol flows at every building during gameday? Not just beer - everything (beer, liquor and wine). It's not that I have a marinated liver and that i'm losing focus here, but the Cintas Center architect set it up as a dispensary. Hell, they even resurrected the Norwood Cafe, placing it up on the upper deck as a bar.

CLink Omaha is twice as big as Cintas and therefore we drink at least 4x as much alcohol per game.

[Xudash]

I'll end this conversation right now: how much alcohol flows at every building during gameday? Not just beer - everything (beer, liquor and wine). It's not that I have a marinated liver and that i'm losing focus here, but the Cintas Center architect set it up as a dispensary. Hell, they even resurrected the Norwood Cafe, placing it up on the upper deck as a bar.

CLink Omaha is twice as big as Cintas and therefore we drink at least 4x as much alcohol per game.

Can we negotiate? How about per capita? You crazy bastards may still take us on that basis!

[gtmoBlue]

The Radnorites are unbeatable at Finneran. Hence is why I'm so fond of the WFA. Anytime we play
at the WFA we have a shot at winning.

Wassup Chesty? Luv youse guys.