Fre3dombear said:
To Deny it's an enormous advantage for the teams
Within 2 hours drive of there is ludicrous
That said if it was in Dallas or waco we still wouldn't have as many fans there as those schools.
And often it's not like we lost a close in in the semis or finals where a "home" call or two made the difference. We usually just get our doors blown off and randomly someone like Loehner becomes a huge part of what we're doing for the first time all season.
I watch but quit going years ago mainly for those reasons.
No one denies that location benefits the Midwestern schools. But Baylor fans *****ing about it is a joke.
We've played two Big 12 football championship games less than 90 miles from our campus since 2019 and filled maybe 30 percent of a 70,000-seat venue.
We could play the Big 12 tournament in the Ferrell Center, and we still wouldn't have the homecourt advantage Kansas or Iowa State have in Kansas City because they have more, better and louder fans. Ours just like to *****.
The conference tournament, like the Big 12 football championship, has to be played somewhere. And regardless of where they put it, it will favor some schools over others.
I'm far more concerned with how we play than where we play.