define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); referee bias – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:51:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court Behind the Numbers: On the Issue of Home Cooking… http://rushthecourt.net/2011/01/12/behind-the-numbers-on-the-issue-of-home-cooking/ http://rushthecourt.net/2011/01/12/behind-the-numbers-on-the-issue-of-home-cooking/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:44:18 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=30845

Conference play has started and it is a glorious thing. While non-conference play has its charms (who doesn’t love to see heavyweights go at it?), conference play has a special allure. Games are exciting when there is history, and that’s what conferences offer: a history of rivalries and past meetings that add a little bit of spice to each new meeting. And while old wounds may ache, it’s the new ones that sting: The best part of conference play is the home-and-away series; to better understand  the meaning of Duke and Ohio State’s close scrapes this past week, [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2011/01/12/behind-the-numbers-on-the-issue-of-home-cooking/feed/ 3