Home team advantage in post-season

[tornado]

Here are the home team records thus far in the post-season games that are played on campus...

NIT: 21-7
CBI: 9-5
CIT: 22-6

In the one tourney where teams are seeded - the record is nearly identical to the CIT where teams are not seeded
In all the NIT - most of the road wins have been later in the 2nd & 3rd rounds - thus negating a large amount of the seeding disparity.

So I think we can conclude that playing at home is a far greater advantage than even getting a good seed. But that the home advantage disappears as the better teams who are capable of winning on the road all advance.
Three #1 NIT seeds playing at home went down the last two nights.

[amckillip]

Here are the home team records thus far in the post-season games that are played on campus...

NIT: 21-7
CBI: 9-5
CIT: 22-6

In the one tourney where teams are seeded - the record is nearly identical to the CIT where teams are not seeded
In all the NIT - most of the road wins have been later in the 2nd & 3rd rounds - thus negating a large amount of the seeding disparity.

So I think we can conclude that playing at home is a far greater advantage than even getting a good seed. But that the home advantage disappears as the better teams who are capable of winning on the road all advance.
Three #1 NIT seeds playing at home went down the last two nights.

This is FAR too small a sample size to deduce that from. If you want to see the impact in seeding, look at the first round of the NCAA this year, and every year where teams are seeded but not get home court...

Home court is important, for sure, but saying "we can conclude that playing at home is a far greater advantage than even getting a good seed" I don't think is fair, nor do I think one year is enough to make any conclusion whatsoever.

[tornado]

I disagree...

First - you can't use the NCAA in any way, shape or form because no team ever really gets a true home game - and that's pretty much the main point here

Second - one can draw conclusions from pretty much whatever data one wants to - but of course the larger the sample size the better.
In this case the sample size is 70 games already!
If you are saying we can't use a sample size of 70 games then how in the heck can anyone vote on the AP Top 25 when there has been a paltry sample size of the #1 ranked team only playing 30 games...or the MVC POY when the league has only 50 starters!

[tornado]

Here's the home team record from last year, 2012, at this exact same point in time - thru Wednesday of the 2nd week...

NIT 17-11
CIT 22-7
CBI 9-5

again what we see is the tourney that is seeded has even LESS home court advantage than the unseeded tourney...certainly not more as one might expect
Conclude what you want but it's hard to make any argument that seeding is more important than playing at home