Team with the Biggest Home Field Advantage?

[lay the wood2]

I was wondering some of the teams out there that clearly have the largest advantage playing in their own building, field, rink, court etc....
College or professional

The Rutgers basketball team playing at the RAC brought this on...

 

[HoopsGuru]

duke(mens college bball)

 

[bjfinste]

Wisconsin basketball hasn't lost a home game since November of 2002.

 

[eman]

Wisconsin (Mens College Basketball)

 

[Scott4USC]

USC College Football currently has a 21 game home winning streak!

I think Boise St. CFB on that blue carpet also has a 20 or 21 game home winning streak as well.

 

[kosar]

Has USC even sold out a game in the last 2 years?

 

[bjfinste]

USC doesn't have much of a home-field advantage. The streak is because of an incredible coaching staff, incredible talent on offense, and incredible talent on defense.

The criteria I'd use is this: if all of those games were played away instead of home, how many would USC have lost? It's very possible that number is zero.

But with the Badgers, the streak is something like 38, and I'd bet 10-15 of those games would have been losses had they been on the road. Granted, home-court is bigger in cbb than home-field is in cfb, but you get the picture.

 

[Scott4USC]

Has USC even sold out a game in the last 2 years?

This last season USC had 3 sell outs. CAL, ASU, and ND.

In each of the last 2 years USC has averaged "over" 80,000 fans.

At the worse of times at USC, they would average 40,000-50,000 fans and always sell out UCLA or ND game.

50,000 fans are sell outs at some CFB stadiums.

bjfinste

I agree noise wise the Colisium is not the loudest even with a sell out but a win streak is a win streak and averaging 80,000 fans is a lot of fans. Next year it will be VERY intimidating for opponents to play USC at the Colisum for many reasons.

 

[SixFive]

Uk :142lmao: :moon:

Seriously, I think Wisconsin has the best now. Somebody like Detroit Mercy used to have the best I think.

 

[Mjolnir]

Dallas' roller derby team of the 70's!!

 

[ScreaminPain]

Has USC even sold out a game in the last 2 years?

Is there any reason to sell out a USC game? For christ sake, we are in So. California....there's so much to do here besides go to a football game on Saturday!!! The loyal Alum's will fill the stadium with around 40-50,000, some will watch at sports bars, others will Tivo the game and play golf, go to the beach, boating, water ski, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, or whatever.....This isn't Norman, or South Bend..

 

[toastonastick]

USC HAH !!!!! you've got to be kidding! Great team, but they do not have a good homefield advantage.

 

[kosar]

Is there any reason to sell out a USC game? For christ sake, we are in So. California....there's so much to do here besides go to a football game on Saturday!!! The loyal Alum's will fill the stadium with around 40-50,000, some will watch at sports bars, others will Tivo the game and play golf, go to the beach, boating, water ski, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, or whatever.....This isn't Norman, or South Bend..

I hear ya, screamin'. I live in Florida where nobody supports the teams either, except for maybe the Dolphins. Plenty of other stuff to do. Go to the Orange Bowl for a Hurricanes game and see what a pathetic sight it is. Bad part of town. Crappy stadium. Quiet fans. No parking. Plenty of empty seats. Sounds like how i've heard it is at a USC game.

 

[kosar]

USC HAH !!!!! you've got to be kidding! Great team, but they do not have a good homefield advantage.

Exactly.

 

[vyrus858]

Is there any reason to sell out a USC game? For christ sake, we are in So. California....there's so much to do here besides go to a football game on Saturday!!! The loyal Alum's will fill the stadium with around 40-50,000, some will watch at sports bars, others will Tivo the game and play golf, go to the beach, boating, water ski, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, or whatever.....This isn't Norman, or South Bend..

I WAS ABOUT TO POST THE SAME EXACT THING...Why watch the game at a stadium when we can avoid traffic and watch it at a beachfront sports bar or at the athletic club while working out (my personal fav)...I was thinking that myself, but I also think it would be awesome to go somewhere like Norman and watch the crowd their and how delighted they are to be their and watch their golden boys play

 

[Nick Douglas]

Wisconsin football fans are the best to watch a game with that I've seen. In the student section everyone's drunk, nobody sits for fear of being branded an ASSSSSSSS-HOOOOOOOOOLE, they make up great taunts ("High School Band" is a personal fave) and "O" sucks.

 

[bigdad2]

While Wisconsin's recent streak at home is somewhat impressive, and I think it will fall tonight, the thread was started for the Team with the Biggest Home Field Advantage. It is hard to imagine picking any team over Duke in college basketball if not in all sports. With a seating capacity of only 9,314 it is by no means the biggest but with the student section right on top of the players it is one of the loudest. Just for arguement's sake I would love to see the best home winning percentage in all of college B-ball for the past 18-20 years...

 

[IntenseOperator]

College foots....West Virginia + Hawaii

Pro foots....NE

Pro hoops...Denver

College Hoops...Hawaii

Bases...Colorado Rocks

Hockey....who cares

Soccer....the park across the street from my house

 

[ScreaminPain]

... Just for arguement's sake I would love to see the best home winning percentage in all of college B-ball for the past 18-20 years...

UCLA ...if you're going back 20 yrs.

 

[lay the wood2]

I would have to say that Blair Prep Academy has a large home presence for wrestling.


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