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15 best home-court advantages in college basketball

By Mike Phillips

EAST LANSING, MI - MARCH 09: Matt McQuaid #20 of the Michigan State Spartans kisses the logo after defeating the Michigan Wolverines 75-63 at Breslin Center on March 9, 2019 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
EAST LANSING, MI - MARCH 09: Matt McQuaid #20 of the Michigan State Spartans kisses the logo after defeating the Michigan Wolverines 75-63 at Breslin Center on March 9, 2019 in East Lansing, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) /
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DURHAM, NC – MARCH 05: Cameron Crazies and fans of the Duke Blue Devils try to distract Chaundee Brown #23 of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in the second half at Cameron Indoor Stadium on March 5, 2019 in Durham, North Carolina. Duke won 71-70. (Photo by Lance King/Getty Images)
DURHAM, NC – MARCH 05: Cameron Crazies and fans of the Duke Blue Devils try to distract Chaundee Brown #23 of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in the second half at Cameron Indoor Stadium on March 5, 2019 in Durham, North Carolina. Duke won 71-70. (Photo by Lance King/Getty Images) /

A good home-court advantage is massive in college basketball. Which 15 schools can lay claim to the best home-court advantage in college hoops since the turn of the century?

Winning a college basketball game against a D-I opponent anywhere is hard, but the task is significantly more difficult in a road game. A true road game in college sports is a significant disadvantage since each individual arena has its quirks and rowdy student sections that make life difficult for the visitors.

There are, however, several venues which rise above the rest in terms of pure insanity for the opposing team. Those advantages can come down to how loud the building gets, the mystique of history that pervades several of the more historic venues on the list, and building construction putting fans right on top of the action.

For the purposes of this exercise, we have weighed each school’s home record since the 2000 season as part of the grade. This may have disqualified some programs, but it also opened the door for a few newer arenas that have developed a reputation as pure hell for the opposition in recent years.

We’ll kick off our list with a relatively small school, South Dakota State, which has built an unbelievable home-court advantage over the past two decades.