A sort of amazing stat about playing on the road....

[Mojocat]

read this in Eric Crawford's column today (Louisville WDRB):

"Ken Pomeroy says beating the No. 90 team on the road is equivalent to beating the No. 20 team at home. Texas A&M is ranked No. 22 in his ratings. What does beating them on the road amount to? Beating Chuck Norris?"

Beating the 90th ranked team on the road is equal to beating a top 20 team at home? That puts our - and everyone else' - road struggles in a little perspective. Again I ask - how is home court only worth 3 or 4 points?

 

[KA4Prez]

It's not a number for number calculation. That's it.

A team like UK is still going to be favored on the road against any team outside of the top 25 or so. They were favored at A&M, who was 22nd in KenPom.
A team like UK is also going to be favored at home against anyone, even if they are ranked #1.

Essentially, there is a threshold of where you're "expected" to win on the road and you're expected to win every home game (I'd bet this is true for any team ranked in the top 10-15 of KenPom).