Is Vanderbilt the only school

[Mayor McCheese]

Where the players benches at their home court is on the baseline?

If so, is there a rule against this?  It provides a tremendous home court advantage, as coaching from the baseline I would figure would be something much different (and tougher) then say the sideline.

[Aughnanure]

I dont if its the only school, bit its one of the very very very few. Actually, Vanderbilt's home setup is what was used primarily back in the older days, from what Ive read.  Apparently, benches at the baselines used to be the norm at one point. The arena is just strange in general because of how they expanded, I thought I heard somewhere that they have to place multiple scoreboards facing different directions around the arena because of the weird locations fans' views are blocked from.

[4everwarriors]

The last time I was there which I think was for the Mideast Regional in 1975, the playing floor was elevated like it is at Williams Arena.

[wojosdojo]

Are we playing there or at a neutral site... As for the other big east/sec games were nuetral ( or some)

[77ncaachamps]

Are we playing there or at a neutral site... As for the other big east/sec games were nuetral ( or some)

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Vanderbilt Commodores vs Marquette Golden Eagles
Wednesday December 29, 2010 8:00 PM
Vanderbilt Memorial Gym
Nashville, TN

[MU B2002]

Chiapet,
This is not part of the Beast / Sec challenge.  It is the first leg of a home and home that MU signed on for when a similar deal with USC could not be struck.  IIRC

[wojosdojo]

Alright thanks.... For the bad news. 

[TallTitan34]

Alright thanks.... For the bad news. 

It's actually better that it is a road game. 

If it was a neutral court site it would still be mostly Vandy fans essentially making it a home court for them.  A neutral court loss is worse than a road loss and a road win is better than a netural court win.

[wojosdojo]

That's true, I agree. But the fact we have to play at a place that looks more like a theatre is kind of depressing. It will be interesting to watch though.