Mike DeCourcy drops a few lines for the Sporting News about the psychology of scheduling in college basketball.
[I]Jim Boeheim, Jim Calhoun, Mike Krzyzewski, John Calipari, Rick Pitino and Roy Williams…Their teams have played a combined 78 non-conference basketball games to date. Only six of those were on the road – an average of one per man. [/I]
[I]How has it damaged them to be so timorous? Not at all. Their teams have won 91.7 percent of their games overall, 93.5 percent of their non-conference games and 100 percent of the home games they arranged for themselves. None is ranked lower than No. 11 in the most recent Associated Press poll.[/I]
For the rest of his article click [URL=”http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2012-01-02/old-school-coaches-know-home-court-still-biggest-advantage”]here[/URL].
