Interesting on home court

Im not reaching here, but I find that the stats about the away differentials could be valuable in march.

Article ESPN Pomeroy: The team with the biggest differential between home and road scoring margin during this time is … drumroll please … Utah Valley! Iknow I could have given you a few hundred guesses before you came up with the Wolverines. But believe it or not, in 58 games they outscored opponents by 745 points at home and were outscored by 105 points on the road for an average home-court advantage of 7.33 points. UVU leads a top 10 that isn’t exactly a who’s who of teams playing in feared venues. Ranking the teams with the best home-court advantage. HSM is the total home scoring margin in number of games listed. RSM is the total road scoring margin in number of games listed. Avg. HCA is the average home-court advantage based on difference in home/road scoring margin per game.

Rank	Team	HSM	RSM	Games	Avg. HCA
1	Utah Valley	745	-105	58	7.328
2	Alabama	538	-341	60	7.325
3	Arkansas	384	-447	60	6.93
4	Denver	493	-617	82	6.77
5	Virginia Tech	255	-567	62	6.63
6	Ohio	513	-395	69	6.58
7	Marshall	433	-486	71	6.47
8	Indiana	495	-528	80	6.39
9	Hawaii	568	-733	103	6.32
10	Mississippi St.	576	-181	60	6.31
70	Kansas	1076	520	60	4.63
80	Duke	1171	481	76	4.54
116	Ohio State	658	-18	80	4.23
179	North Carolina	616	57	76	3.68
232	Kentucky	529	141	60	3.23

2/29 ESPN Interview with Creen. our program has finally bounced back this season. What’s the next step?

TC: Winning close games consistently, I think that’s big. We’ve had some really good road wins, double-figure road wins.

But every part of winning for this team is new this year. A winning streak, the nonconference record, beating ranked teams — highly ranked teams — this is the first time this group has done any of that. You never take it for granted but it won’t be the first time anymore, so that’s a big deal.

That’s why they’ve matured so much through this season. The biggest thing to understand is why we’re successful when we’re successful. When this team has really embraced the physicality of the game and played possession by possession, that’s when they’ve been their best.

Speaking of first times, this will be the first time this team heads to March with serious expectations for the Big Ten Tournament and a guaranteed NCAA tournament trip. How will they handle it?

TC: We’ll see. As coaches, we’ve been through it, so you do what you do and you do what you know works, tailoring it to your particular team. This group really dives into films. We’re a team that makes adjustments. We game plan for each game — how are we going to guard these screens? We don’t just do what we do. And they’ve been really good at that.

But the bigger we make it, the more overwhelming it gets. I don’t think anyone needs to do that. They already know how big it is. It’s our job to make sure they just go step by step.

Arkansas

Outlook: They return a super frosh who got no pub due to Walls and Cousins but he was solid. They also bring back quite a bit of guard experience.
Notes: Against Texas AM, they looked like a mirror team to them. They were sound on defensively. They had good inside presence with freshman P:owell and some other serviceable bigs. Dont worry too much about size as they have some real leapers who overcome being 6’7 or 6’8. They block one shot per 5 defensive trips. One who can jump out of the Gym and change shots. Offensivleythey were only okay. They had a guard who coul d penetrate in Nobles and some decent scoring options in a system. OVeerall, I liked this team though. They had some moxy and played good defense.

Last notes on this game from Kirk… This team could keep it close or win a game in the tournament. They really dont have an unbelievable scorer late, but betwen Powell and Clarke, they really have a unique, scrappy team. Think of this as a team that has balance, is well coached, and has some athetes.