Looking at the BE schedule

[CO_Hoya]

With the BE season about to begin (UCon v WVU noted), I thought I'd look at the schedules of the 10 likely Big East contenders. For each school, I looked at the current KenPom rankings, and determine the strength of schedule by average, median, home average, road average.

For example:
G'town (Current Rank = 20): Ave. = 54, Median = 38, Home Games Only Ave. = 28, Road Only Ave. = 81

Team (Rk)	Ave.	Med.	Home Ave	Road Ave
UCon (6)	75	54	83	67
WVU (11)	65	58	61	69
NDU (14)	69	54	56	81
Nova (17)	50	38	61	38
G'town (20)	54	38	28	81
Pitt (27)	50	40	58	41
DePaul (35)	64	44	59	70
Marq (40)	56	41	67	46
Cuse (47)	61	38	40	82
L'ville (62)	54	40	65	42

Some things to note:
- Pitt and Nova have the hardest BE schedules right now by average, while Nova, G'town and Cuse have the hardest by median (average of 8th and 9th toughest opponents).

- UCon, WVU and NDU have the 3 easiest schedules, so may be able to maintain their 1-3 rank.

- DePaul and Syracuse have relatively easy schedules by average, but difficult by median, indicating a few lousy teams (e.g. Rutgers, St. John's, USF) are skewing things.

- G'town has far and away the hardest home slate, but one of the easier road schedules this season. Assuming a home-court advantage, this could help much with the conference record. Conversely, this will probably hurt the RPI relative to some other BE teams.

- Villanova, Louisville and Pitt will have a lot of tough road games and their record will likely reflect this.

- For some teams (e.g. G'town), this is all of their remaining games, while others (UCon, Nova, WVU) have quality OOC games remaining.

[lichoya68]

good analysis but sitll need to win one by one at least by one go hoyas its almost february beat nd come out strong cant take four overtimes or even one.

[HealyHoya]

Nice post, CO...Just underscores how vitally important Hoya homecourt advantage is this year. Fans, students, the public, band, Groove Theory, Ballroom Dance Team....we need a great home court.