Winning on the road in college basketball

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The road winning percentage in major men's college basketball is .340 -- meaning the road team wins roughly one out of every three games.

Somewhere on Earth there may be a sport in which this figure is lower. But it isn't the NBA, NHL, American or Australian football, English or Argentine soccer, Major League Baseball, Japanese baseball, Dominican winter baseball, or any of two dozen other sports leagues.

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College basketball fans are some of the craziest fans in all of sport. Probably most of the reason.
 

Probably also has something to do with the fact that most major programs are wussies and for the most part refuse to schedule difficult home games during the nonconference portion of the schedule.
 

SelectionSunday said:
Probably also has something to do with the fact that most major programs are wussies and for the most part refuse to schedule difficult home games during the nonconference portion of the schedule.
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The article addresses that point:

One old theory is that this figure is skewed by all the games early in the year where the prominent schools invite weak opponents to their arenas, only to flog them. But even if one discards that portion of the season and counts only intraconference play, the resulting .380 road-winning figure is still below every other major U.S. team sport. In 2007, road teams in the Southeastern Conference lost 75% of their conference games -- an only slightly worse record than this year's 68% rate, the second-highest of any Division I conference.
 




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