Facts again Della.
Last year he started calculating teams' home court advantage by comparing the differences in how they perform in conference home games versus conference road games. The ratings right now are based on a little over 3 seasons worth of conference games.
Of the top 50 schools who have what Kenpom calculates to be the biggest home court advantage, 10 are from the SEC. This isn't too shocking to me as I've always felt like the difficulty of SEC road games was underrated by a lot of folks.
What's more interesting, however, is when you look at some of the components of what goes into his analysis. In particular, the difference in foul calls at home versus on the road. Of the top 25 schools who receive the most favorable home treatment from refs, 10 are from the SEC. That's insane.
And Kentucky is not one of those ten, which I'm sure is not that shocking to many of you. UK ranks 34th, so in general, we get a more favorable whistle at home. However, it's just not as much as 10 of our conference mates. A little more consistency in the officiating between home and road games is probably something that would benefit UK significantly.
So for any of you who complain that we don't seem to get the same types of calls at home as other teams do, there's some data that indicates you may be right and not simply a crazy UK fan.
The Vols were one of the ten.
