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When did playing in the Sprint Center become a home game?
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7 years 11 months ago #9960
by DrJHawker
ESPN is including the wins in the Sprint Center as part of our home wining streak. The Sprint is much like a home game for the Hawks but it's not the same as playing in the Fog. I consider Fog home.
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7 years 11 months ago #9961
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And it has never been necessarily an easy game.
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7 years 11 months ago #9962
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
The Sprint Center, while definitely a favorable environment for KUMBB, is not AFH.
Under Self, KU in:
AFH: 95.9% (213-9)
SC: 85.0% (34-6)
A difference of more than 10% points is both practically and statistically significant.
The difference only emphasizes what should be common sense to the NCAA and ESPN: Sprint Center games should *not* be included in KU's "home court" winning streak. They are not the same place.
Under Self, KU in:
AFH: 95.9% (213-9)
SC: 85.0% (34-6)
A difference of more than 10% points is both practically and statistically significant.
The difference only emphasizes what should be common sense to the NCAA and ESPN: Sprint Center games should *not* be included in KU's "home court" winning streak. They are not the same place.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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7 years 11 months ago #9981
by NotOstertag
"When I was a freshman, I remember Coach Naismith telling us how important it was to play good defense." - Mitch Lightfoot
Yeah...not a fan of this. Going back in time, do previous Sprint Center games count as "home" games? What about Kemper?
Home should be your actual official "home court" as far as records are concerned, so unless KU made the decision to recognize KC as it's "alternate home" court, then I'm not buying into this logic. Also, would this count as "home" if we played another team with KC-based fans (i.e. KSU or MU)?
Final thought: we'd have likely had a full 16,300 if the game Saturday would have been at AFH. In KC, we had a LOT of empty seats.
Home should be your actual official "home court" as far as records are concerned, so unless KU made the decision to recognize KC as it's "alternate home" court, then I'm not buying into this logic. Also, would this count as "home" if we played another team with KC-based fans (i.e. KSU or MU)?
Final thought: we'd have likely had a full 16,300 if the game Saturday would have been at AFH. In KC, we had a LOT of empty seats.
"When I was a freshman, I remember Coach Naismith telling us how important it was to play good defense." - Mitch Lightfoot
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