[qwerty49]

I wonder if home court advantage goes away this year, the year without fans.

If it does not, then we will know that we fans are not that important--that it is about other things like knowing the sight-lines in your own gym, sleeping in your own bed, etc. 

I suspect it will sharply diminish, though, but either way it will be an interesting experiment to prove how much we fans are worth in the gym.

Back in the day we were in L.A. for the weekend and I took my daughter to see Stanford WBB play at $C, it was Nicole Powell's senior year IIRC.  Official attendance was 200, but the real attendance had to be around 100, and that was counting arena janitors, ushers, security, about 30 members of the $C band, and about 20 Stanford fans.  

It was like watching practice.  Not exactly much home court advantage.  

But I do think home court advantage exists, especially when there aren't many convenient fan alternatives -- I'm thinking of when Stanford WVB would go out to play Nebraska in front of 12-15000 people.

[qwerty49]

I wonder if home court advantage goes away this year, the year without fans.

If it does not, then we will know that we fans are not that important--that it is about other things like knowing the sight-lines in your own gym, sleeping in your own bed, etc. 

I suspect it will sharply diminish, though, but either way it will be an interesting experiment to prove how much we fans are worth in the gym.

Back in the day we were in L.A. for the weekend and I took my daughter to see Stanford WBB play at $C, it was Nicole Powell's senior year IIRC.  Official attendance was 200, but the real attendance had to be around 100, and that was counting arena janitors, ushers, security, about 30 members of the $C band, and about 20 Stanford fans.  

It was like watching practice.  Not exactly much home court advantage.  

But I do think home court advantage exists, especially when there aren't many convenient fan alternatives -- I'm thinking of when Stanford WVB would go out to play Nebraska in front of 12-15000 people.