re: Basketball Season over Dawgs lose to Seaton Hall 84-67 and Finish 20-17 overall

I watched abotu 2 minutes of them yesterday and they looked good, but one thing I notcied was their gym was pretty small looking and close quarters, almost like a HS or cameron indoor. I can imagine that being a massive home court advantage, especially since as the 1 seed they haven't gone on the road in the NIT yet. I didn't realize they'd beaten uconn as you said, so I checked out their schedule and it's about what you'd expect; great at home and iffy away. Some of the notable contests:

-First half of the year mostly beat who they should and lost to some teams you might expect them to.
-They did beat uconn at home which is one of the better wins on the year
-From what I can tell they only played 2 true road games prior to January and they lost both by an average of 19 points. One of them was to the Xavier team we jsut beat
-Conference play kept hte same trend. Beat a lot of teams at home including some good ones (marquette, creighton) but struggled on the road.
-They beat MU at home by 3 but lost to them on the road by 18. They beat Creighton at home by 3 in 3OT but lost to them on the road by 21. They beat Uconn at home by 15 but lost to them on th road by 30.
-Then as the 1 seed they've gotten 3 home games against overmatched team.


Honestly I feel a lot better about this game after looking at their schedule. They are, VERY clearly, a different team away from home, and they haven't played away from home in a while. Meanwhile we've beaten the 1 and 2 seeds, both on their home court, in the last 2 games.