Your Thoughts on the Crowd's Involvement?

[Random UK Fan]

Does it make a difference, or are all arenas the same? I see a lot of back and forth on our at-home invovement, which nobody seems to convince the other side.

 

[UKWildcats#8]

It doesn't matter.

The road officials...they matter. I'm just praying Cal does play WCS and let the refs call his 3rd here the last 3+ minutes of the first half.

 

[BourbonBalz]

Crowds do not matter, except for the fact that the refs are so influenced by them. Today is a prefect example, especially early in the game. The calls were much better the second part of the first half, but we're absolutely terrible the first ten minutes.

 

[Blueblood410]

Originally posted by #1Wildcatfan4life:
Crowds do not matter, except for the fact that the refs are so influenced by them. Today is a prefect example, especially early in the game. The calls were much better the second part of the first half, but we're absolutely terrible the first ten minutes.

Yep. Refs nowadays think the crowd is cheering for them when they make the calls. It's disgusting.

 

[gakat3]

When you have 2 thieves like Burr and Green, your chances get cut drastically. Be lucky to beat 7.

 

[1Blouman]

How many does their arena seat? It's a fairly new arena, completed a year or two before Yum.
Cost about one third as much.

 

[Xception]

Crowds matter , players and coaches say it matters but dude in the recliner says it doesn't . It's part of a thing they call home court advantage to where a loud crowd can rattle opposing players , Google it .

 

[sambowieshin_rivals]

Cant be too great of a home crowd at SC if you can hear GO BIG BLUE chants over the home team crowd.

 

[musrat59]

I heard Oscar Combs say it opened in 2002.

 

[Kampus Korner_rivals164031]

Originally posted by KYtotheCore:
Does it make a difference, or are all arenas the same? I see a lot of back and forth on our at-home invovement, which nobody seems to convince the other side.

Crowds do matter. Otherwise, the Vegas boys would not factor home court advantage in setting the betting line. No question, teams play their best at home than on the road. Check out their won/loss records. Rupp is a big advantage but too many times during games we expect to win easily, it is a dull environment.

 

[Cats_2010]

Originally posted by Blouman:

How many does their arena seat? It's a fairly new arena, completed a year or two before Yum.
Cost about one third as much.

18,000

 

[JonathanW_rivals]

Originally posted by sambowieshin:
Cant be too great of a home crowd at SC if you can hear GO BIG BLUE chants over the home team crowd.

I would say we made up close to (+ or -) 50% of the crowd yesterday. Take away the student section, and there was much more blue than not everywhere else.

USC had what I assumed was football recruits there for the game, you wonder what they thought of that home invasion.

 

[CB3UK]

Ask Nick Calethes if that Rupp crowd in 2008 mattered when he missed 3 in a row at the charity stripe

 

[fs-ripcord65]

I realize that the way I'm going to put this statement is, in and of itself, highly speculative and utterly unsupportable empirically.

With that said ... I'd guess that "the crowd" in any college basketball game "matters" about 10% as much as 50% of all college basketball fans think the crowd matters. Which is to say (IMHO), not much !