In Big East Conference Play The Home Team is 14 and 15

[Tugg Speedman]

Through 'ville's win over ND.

So much for home court advantage.

[MarquetteDano]

It is still early but that is amazing.  I seem to recall seeing a statistic that since 1980 the home team in division one wins 68% of the time.  Has to be the largest advantage in all of teams sports in the U.S.

[YoungMUFan4]

In the 29 BE games....The higher ranked team, as determined by the preseason coaches poll, have amassed a record of 25-4.  It will be interesting to see how this plays out throughout the season when more of the top tier teams face each other.

Here are the upsets by the way:
MU (picked 6th) over Nova (picked 5th)
Gtown (picked 7th) over Uconn (picked 1st)
SJU (picked 14th) over ND (picked 4th)
USF (picked 16th over DePaul (picked 15th)

[WashDCWarrior]

It is still early but that is amazing.  I seem to recall seeing a statistic that since 1980 the home team in division one wins 68% of the time.  Has to be the largest advantage in all of teams sports in the U.S.

Assuming that statistic includes out-of-conference games, it's probably more a factor of big time programs scheduling a number of home games vs. cupcakes than it is about true home-court advantage.

[RawdogDX]

In the 29 BE games....The higher ranked team, as determined by the preseason coaches poll, have amassed a record of 25-4.  It will be interesting to see how this plays out throughout the season when more of the top tier teams face each other.

Here are the upsets by the way:
MU (picked 6th) over Nova (picked 5th)
Gtown (picked 7th) over Uconn (picked 1st)
SJU (picked 14th) over ND (picked 4th)
USF (picked 16th over DePaul (picked 15th)

wow, great stat.

[Tugg Speedman]

Assuming that statistic includes out-of-conference games, it's probably more a factor of big time programs scheduling a number of home games vs. cupcakes than it is about true home-court advantage.

No, this includes only conference games which started Jan 1

[DaCoach]

Here are some more numbers.

Home Team as a Favorite    13-6 straight up
Home Team as a Underdog    3-7 straight up

So the favorite team has won 20 of 29 games straight up. Actually that record is about average. The BE has a big disparity in talent between the best teams and the bottom feeders. The top 8 teams have an overall conference record of 25-6 while the bottom half have gone 4-23. So, even at home the worst teams have a poor chance at an upset against the better squads. By comparison, in the 2007 season the best 8 teams went 97-47.