Home Court Advantage

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A non-official, (me) dares to ask a question of the experts

I keep hearing about home court advantage and a "fan" on our board keeps spouting about that it is all because officials are influenced by the home fans. Drives me crazy. I took a look at box scores for all B12 conference games last year (women's teams - 92 games) and there was an average of about 6 more fouls called on the away team and in no case did the home team have more fouls than the away team. I also looked at TOs on the theory that TEAMS play differently at home and away and in the vast majority of cases teams had about 3 more TOs when they were the away team (I don't have the specific #'s handy right now)

I'm convinced that the home crowd (this conference has an average of more than a million fans watching WCBB games in a season - the highest attendance for WCBB in any conference) does have some influence on how teams play.

You guys and gals see it all from the "other side". Any comments on home court advantage?