For tonight’s Big East final, the game is ostensibly being held on a neutral court; Georgetown and West Virginia are both long drives from New York City, after all. And yet, West Virginia--which is the further of the two from the Big Apple, would seem to have the advantage here.
West Virginia Holds Decisive Home Court Advantage At MSG
↵That’s because every one of the Mountaineers’ five starters are from the NY/NJ area, with Darryl Bryant hailing from Brooklyn itself. Game at Madison Square, Biggie playing during the opening introductions? Might as well be a home game. A real home game, that is.
↵For what it’s worth, Georgetown’s no stranger to geographic exclusivity, either; the Hoyas start one guy from New Orleans (Greg Monroe), and the rest are all from the Washington, D.C. area. And when the Hoyas win their halftime appeal to get the rest of the game played at the Verizon Center in D.C., that fact will become incredibly important.
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