NCAAB home courts question for sharps

[Herman]

As we all know, home court in NCAAB (and every sport) is a huge edge.

1. Why is it such an edge? Road team travelling? Unfamiliar building? Fans rooting against you? All of the above?

2. When I watch the shitty small school games, it's hard to not notice that no one is at the fuckin game. Is the same amount of points factored in for home court when there are 500 people at the game as there are when there are 10,000 at the game?

What factors do you use to determine if a team is getting too much credit for the home court?

 

[Dunder]

All of the above.
Not specific to NCAAB or even basketball but the single biggest factor is the fans influence on officials.

This is something that is very difficult to prove empirically but in terms of soccer a chart which plots penalty kicks awarded or goals ruled out against crowd attendance makes for pretty conclusive reading.

 

[rito]

it's the refs