College Basketball Handicapping – Undefeated Home Courts
A look at undefeated home courts and college basketball handicapping
Every season I discuss and post information on the importance of home courts in college basketball and mention how teams perform with a home/road dichotomy. Understanding home court advantage and the situations surrounding the current contests is important in helping you isolate winners. From a point spread perspective and especially at this time of year, the oddsmaker factor home court more heavily into the line as the public bets on better teams on their strong home courts. Understanding player strengths and match-ups, team chemistry, current form and statistical performance both home and away is part of the evaluation and point spread prognosis. Along with good coaching and preparation, players can become more consistent in their play at home along with their performance when having to take to the road in hostile environments.
Once teams get to postseason play, you must factor in and handicap a team’s home/road performance to deliver more pointspread winners. Some of the best situational plays develop during February. Many conference teams are now playing “second meets” or opponents for the second time in conference play. These contests present another dynamic with familiarity, revenge, motivation and home court all factoring into your handicap. So too should teams that are performing poorly and have less to play for down the stretch, as these teams can become a ‘fade’ on weaker home courts. 
With plenty of college basketball to look forward to in February and March, I thought you might benefit by knowing the teams that have gone undefeated at home this basketball season. Below I present to you the current list of undefeated home teams in college basketball, along with their home ATS records. College basketball handicapping – undefeated home courts is another tool to use in your evaluation of college basketball. While the teams listed below remain undefeated, there are plenty of teams with one or two home losses that have proven to perform their best at home, and you must evaluate the match-ups, motivation and be willing to even take the extra value with some of the road teams against better teams on their strong home courts ( like we did with Boston College and Wyoming February 6 ).
Each college basketball season there are approx. 10-15 teams that go undefeated at home for the entire season. Through February 5th, there are currently 21 teams that remain undefeated on their home court. Many of these teams have a proven and strong 3-4 year record on their home floor, but some will be overvalued at home the remainder of the season. The ability to understand scheduling and motivational situations will help you when playing on teams with both strong and weak home courts in the final month of the season. By following a team’s roster, personnel and growth, relevant stats along with teams and coaches strengths and weaknesses, you should be able to isolate more winners. It’s up to you the creative self-handicapper to find ways to use the power of these sites (think momentum, revenge, off a loss) to deliver more point spread winners.
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CBB Undefeated Home Teams and home ATS Records – Through Feb. 5, 2014. Lined teams
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1-loss home teams: St. Louis, St. Bonaventure, Clemson, Kansas, Iowa State, Kansas State, Villanova, Xavier, Weber State, Michigan, Nebraska, Delaware, Towson, La. Tech, Green Bay, Wright State, Columbia, Akron, Indiana State, Missouri State, No. Iowa, San Diego State, Belmont, Eastern Kentucky, Murray State, Arizona State, Colorado, UCLA, Utah, Chattanooga, Western Carolina, UIPU – Fort Wayne, BYU, St. Mary’s, Utah Valley, New Mexico State, Grand Canyon
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