Home Court Advantage in NCAA Division 1 Basketball

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Home Court Advantage in NCAA Division 1 Basketball

• By Jordan Pedersen
• Tom Geiger
• Waleed Khoury

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Rationale

• Home court advantage is a binary variable
• Boxplots display data interrelationships best
• Big East Conference (2007-2008)
• Home and Away Winning Percentages in conference
  games
• Free Throw and Field Goal Percentages for three
  different teams

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Games Played At Home and Away
Team WH GPH WA GPA WPCT H WPCT
A Georgetown 9 9 6 9 1.00000 0.666667 Notre
Dame 9 9 5 9 1.00000 0.555556 Louisville 8 9 6 9
0.88889 0.666667 Connecticut 8 9 6 9 0.88889 0.666
667 Marquette 7 9 4 9 0.77778 0.444444 West
Virginia 7 9 4 9 0.77778 0.444444 Pittsburgh 7 9 3
9 0.77778 0.333333 Villanova 6 9 3 9 0.66667 0.3
33333 Syracuse 6 9 3 9 0.66667 0.333333 Cincinnat
i 5 9 3 9 0.55556 0.333333 Seton
Hall 4 9 3 9 0.44444 0.333333 Providence 4 9 2 9 0
.44444 0.222222 DePaul 4 9 2 9 0.44444 0.222222 S
t. John's 3 9 2 9 0.33333 0.222222 South
Florida 2 9 1 9 0.22222 0.111111 Rutgers 1 9 2 9
0.11111 0.222222
Variable N N Mean SE Mean SD
Minimum Q1 Median Q3 WPCT Home 16
0 0.6250 0.0679 0.2718 0.1111
0.4444 0.6667 0.8611 WPCT Away 16 0
0.3819 0.0442 0.1767 0.1111 0.2222
0.3333 0.5278
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Georgetown FT and FG
H or A Game? Opp FG FT
Home Connecticut 0.421 0.737 Home Notre
Dame 0.528 0.690 Home Syracuse 0.434 0.714 Home Se
ton Hall 0.431 0.806 Home South
Florida 0.393 0.524 Home Villanova 0.400 0.667 Hom
e Cincinnati 0.476 0.771 Home St.
Johns 0.444 0.875 Home Louisville 0.500 0.800 Awa
y Rutgers 0.476 0.538 Away DePaul 0.544 0.818 Aw
ay Pittsburgh 0.442 0.846 Away West
Virginia 0.467 0.800 Away St. Johns 0.528 0.500 A
way Louisville 0.440 0.750 Away Syracuse 0.418 0.7
65 Away Providence 0.400 0.533 Away Marquette 0.46
8 0.750 Bold Win
FG Home Away Mean .447 .465 SD
.045 .047 Median .434 .467
FT Home Away Mean .732 .700 SD
.101 .136 Median .737 .750
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Syracuse FT and FG
H or A Game? Opp. FG FT Home St.
Johns 0.474 0.548 Home South Florida 0.514 0.583 H
ome Rutgers 0.604 0.619 Home Villanova 0.400 0.76
9 Home Providence 0.392 0.676 Home Connecticut 0.3
73 0.786 Home Georgetown 0.444 0.821 Home Pittsbu
rgh 0.588 0.600 Home Marquette 0.580 0.686 Away Ci
ncinatti 0.407 0.750 Away West Virginia 0.415 0.70
0 Away Georgetown 0.365 0.500 Away DePaul 0.415 0
.789 Away Villanova 0.628 0.718 Away South
Florida 0.536 0.625 Away Louisville 0.291 0.727 Aw
ay Notre Dame 0.402 0.714 Away Seton
Hall 0.508 0.577 Bold Win
FG Home Away Mean .485 .441 SD
.09 .101 Median .474 .415
FT Home Away Mean
.676 .678 SD .10 .09 Median .676 .714
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Rutgers FT and FG
Home or Away? Opp. FG FT Home Georgetown 0.311 0
.444 Home Louisville 0.320 0.647 Home Villanova 0.
500 0.641 Home Seton Hall 0.328 0.649 Home St.
Johns 0.288 0.647 Home Cincinnati 0.393 0.565 Hom
e Notre Dame 0.377 0.583 Home Connecticut 0.424 0.
600 Home South Florida 0.358 0.647 Away South
Florida 0.389 0.125 Away Providence 0.318 0.667 Aw
ay Syracuse 0.404 0.538 Away Depaul 0.617 0.500 A
way Pittsburgh 0.537 0.714 Away Louisville 0.327 0
.625 Away West Virginia 0.479 0.667 Away Marquette
0.389 0.500 Away Seton Hall 0.389 0.682 Bold
Win
FG Home Away Mean .367 .427 SD
.067 .099 Median .358 .398
FT Home Away Mean .603 .558 SD
.066 .181 Median .641 .625
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• Sources
• ESPN.com
• AirBud.com