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Message: [QUOTE="McLovin, post: 4184299, member: 9450"] Right. And you continue to miss the point. The point isn’t that it’s tougher for UConn than their opponent. It’s tough for both, I’ve said I agree with that. The point is that the XL Center is a more difficult shooting environment (stats back that up) than Gampel for OUR OWN TEAM. You really think it’s a good idea to neutralize ourselves by putting the team in an arena that makes it harder for them to score? No other fan base in the country would advocate for neutralizing their own team on their own “home” floor. The XL Center in a “home” floor in name only. We lose any advantage (i.e. playing in the same gym our team practices in daily, when the other team does not) by playing on a floor that makes it just a difficult for our players to adjust as it does the opponent. If the XL Center was our on campus arena that we practiced at daily and became comfortable with the sight lines, then it would be a different story. But it’s not. And you guys keep pretending like it makes no difference because both teams have to struggle shooting. That’s completely backwards way to think about a home court advantage. And that 100% makes it harder for us to win those games. We should be doing everything possible to make it easier for the team to win, like every single other program in the country. And then there is the crowd factor, but that’s already been covered in other posts. [/QUOTE]