Last win in a football dome?

[The Stig]

When was the last time the Hoyas won a game in a stadium designed for football?

[jacko]

Certainly not anytime since I've been watching the Hoyas (03-04). I've actually been to 3 of their last 4 dome games/losses, I believe. Pretty sad.

[ichirohoya]

February 2002 if I'm not mistaken. The last time we won at Cuse.

As I recall- we spoiled the dedication of "Jim Boeheim Court" that afternoon.

[hoyasaxact]

What about a dome affects the play of the basketball game? I can't think of anything other than the fact that it's a road game (likely in a big arena as well).

[jgalt]

i have been thinking about that and the only thing i can think of, other than it being an away/neutral environment, would be the way the sound works. the domes and larger stadiums are built differently and the sound works in wiered ways. and in most domes a curtain is lowered to divide what would be the football field in half so there is a wall there creating echoes, this may increase the noise, but this is just me thinking with no first hand knowledge. but at cuse it is mostly that there are 30000+ hostile fans there

[The Stig]

Wow - it's been even longer than I thought.

I don't think it affects our game at all. The record has more to do with the opponents we play in domes. Playing at Cuse is never easy, and the other games in domes have been a Final Four game and a game against an eventual national champion (Florida at the Metrodome).

[Boz]

Feb 17, 2008 1:48:22 GMT -5 hoyasaxact said:

What about a dome affects the play of the basketball game? I can't think of anything other than the fact that it's a road game (likely in a big arena as well).

Yes, Sean McDonough was nearly apoplectic in his whining on behalf of Syracuse in that game. Raftery really let him have it for being a homer (but in that really nice, friendly way that Raftery has).

[jacko]

Of course every stadium is different and has its own individual elements, but some have more unique eccentricities than others. It's part of the homecourt - look at Vandy's goofy arena with the benches on the baselines and the concert hall-style seating and the fans underneath the floor (did they elevate the fans this year? eh who cares). They're used to that and other teams aren't, so there's a bit of an advantage right there.

Very few teams play home games in domes, and domes are different in many ways. In a basketball arena the scoreboards/jumbotrons/etc. are typically situated in pretty intuitive places. In a football arena these items are situated in intuitive/natural places for a football game. When you're playing on a half of a football field, things are oriented differently. Sound is something that people have mentioned here, though I've found from sitting near the court in Minneapolis and Atlanta that the dome pushes a lot of sound into the other half of the building, which actually makes for a much duller crowd sound. I was sitting near the back yesterday, and it seemed pretty loud from up there, though. I think the only difference that might affect a basketball team is the ceiling of a dome. It's much higher, and it's usually straight white. If you expect to see a certain sight above/behind the basket while you're shooting, I would imagine it distorts your sense of space and depth perception a bit.

These are not excuses, but differences.

[lichoya68]

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