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Best home-court environments in college basketball
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2 years 2 months ago #29560
by HawkErrant
"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"
You know the answer, but it's always nice to see public reaffirmation in the media educating the young and newcomers and debunking once again all the naysayers out there who have no clue what they are talking about,
Each coach voting was asked to submit their Top 3 arenas, no other ranking requested..
CBSSports.com - Norlander: Candid Coaches: Which arenas boast the best home-court environments in college basketball?
"CLIFF NOTES" version --
TIER 1
Allen Fieldhouse (Beware of The PHOG) on 67% of all ballots
Cameron Indoor Stadium on 50% of all ballots
McCarthey Athletic Center (Gonzaga's "Kennel" ) 27.4% of all ballots
EVERYONE ELSE
All other arenas getting votes appeared on fewer than 16% of the ballots submitted.
Of those, only 4 were on more than 10% of the ballots submitted.
Noticeable in its complete absence -- zero, nada -- from the voting...
well, it's one of the two major blue blood programs with its roots in KANSAS -- and it's not Rupp Arena...
Each coach voting was asked to submit their Top 3 arenas, no other ranking requested..
CBSSports.com - Norlander: Candid Coaches: Which arenas boast the best home-court environments in college basketball?
"CLIFF NOTES" version --
TIER 1
Allen Fieldhouse (Beware of The PHOG) on 67% of all ballots
Cameron Indoor Stadium on 50% of all ballots
McCarthey Athletic Center (Gonzaga's "Kennel" ) 27.4% of all ballots
EVERYONE ELSE
All other arenas getting votes appeared on fewer than 16% of the ballots submitted.
Of those, only 4 were on more than 10% of the ballots submitted.
Noticeable in its complete absence -- zero, nada -- from the voting...
well, it's one of the two major blue blood programs with its roots in KANSAS -- and it's not Rupp Arena...
"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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2 years 2 months ago #29561
by porthawk
Thanks for the link, HE. I pulled out these two excerpts and bolded the lines that really spoke to me.
THE TAKE AWAY
For transparency's sake, the full question was prefaced with, "From what you've seen and/or experienced ... " meaning coaches were allowed to answer based on where they'd been, if they wanted, or go by other influences. Some coaches polled opted to pick two places they'd been, then lobbed their third vote for a place they'd seen on TV dozens of times or heard about from coaching contemporaries. (This is how Gonzaga got a few extra votes, in fact.) Some coaches voted strictly on places they'd only been. (This is what prevented Kansas from getting even more votes.)
Coaches were also not allowed to pick their own arena. (They were allowed to vote for schools they previously worked at, however.) Thirty-seven schools received at least one vote of the ~300 votes we received, and though coaches weren't asked to explicitly rank 1-2-3, Kansas was the first option for just about half the coaches surveyed. That building is special, and while the general public might consider Cameron Indoor to be the most renowned venue in men's college hoops, those within the sport comfortably hold KU's 67-year-old hallowed home the best. Be it because of the history, the rabid fans, the endless success of the program, any and all of it, Kansas is home to the top venue in the sport.
THE TAKE AWAY
For transparency's sake, the full question was prefaced with, "From what you've seen and/or experienced ... " meaning coaches were allowed to answer based on where they'd been, if they wanted, or go by other influences. Some coaches polled opted to pick two places they'd been, then lobbed their third vote for a place they'd seen on TV dozens of times or heard about from coaching contemporaries. (This is how Gonzaga got a few extra votes, in fact.) Some coaches voted strictly on places they'd only been. (This is what prevented Kansas from getting even more votes.)
Coaches were also not allowed to pick their own arena. (They were allowed to vote for schools they previously worked at, however.) Thirty-seven schools received at least one vote of the ~300 votes we received, and though coaches weren't asked to explicitly rank 1-2-3, Kansas was the first option for just about half the coaches surveyed. That building is special, and while the general public might consider Cameron Indoor to be the most renowned venue in men's college hoops, those within the sport comfortably hold KU's 67-year-old hallowed home the best. Be it because of the history, the rabid fans, the endless success of the program, any and all of it, Kansas is home to the top venue in the sport.
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2 years 2 months ago #29569
by CorpusJayhawk
Don't worry about the mules, just load the wagon!!
I looked at all arenas and all games from 2004 through last season. I took the relative performance for all home games. Then I adjusted that for the strength of schedule. The following list shows the toughest places to win a game over this 19 year period. Two teams stand out. They are Kansas as the toughest and Duke as the 2nd toughest. Firthermore and a fun fact, Kansas has the toughest home schedule of all Div 1 schools for this 19 year period. Part of that, of course is that they have a tough Big 12 schedule. But KU also schedules a tough non-con schedule compared to most other schools. So while the coaches have picked Allen Fieldhouse as the best arena in the country, the objective detailed and thorough analysis shows that it is indeed the best home court advantage in the country.
Don't worry about the mules, just load the wagon!!
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2 years 2 months ago #29574
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Gonzaga was third in the poll, 34th in the data (and they got a lot of love in the podcast). I wonder if you reduced the time frame to the last 5 or last 10 years if the Zag numbers get better.
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