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Username Post: Amaker Still Loves the Palestra for the Tournament
Bruno 
PhD Student
Posts: 1414

Loc: Brooklyn, NY
Reg: 11-21-04
03-12-18 10:32 PM - Post#252631    
    In response to HARVARDDADGRAD

Sun would be a great venue, a real destination and geographically in the middle. Driveable for all and not far from Hartford airport.

I don’t think we fill that arena though.

HCA is a factor. Home win pct in the league was 70 pct. Penn won over 80 pct of its games at home vs. 69 on the road. Harvard won 37 pct of its games on the road, 83 pct at home. You adjust for higher SOS on the road, you adjust for the fact that unlike in the regular season the Palestra doesn’t have only Penn fans for the ILT, you can discount the win percentages some. But it ain’t 50 / 50.

There is no other arena in the league that should host this. It’s Palestra or go outside. And if fair is what you’re after, go outside.

LET'S go BRU-no (duh. nuh. nuh-nuh-nuh)

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