Turns out, what Hog fans have long intuited is statistically supported – Arkansas’ bipolar basketball program is Number One!
I dove into the numbers for The New York Times and found:
“Anderson’s Fastest 40 Minutes has been a resounding success at home. Attendance is tracking upward at Bud Walton Arena, where the Razorbacks have won 89.1 percent of their games under Anderson, including victories over Florida, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kentucky this season. No Arkansas coach has done that well at home since Richardson’s predecessor, Eddie Sutton, in the early 1980s.
But Anderson has not had that kind of success elsewhere. Arkansas has a single road victory in each of the last two seasons. This season, the 84.4-percentage-point disparity between its winning percentages at home (94.4 percent) and on the road (10 percent) is the highest in Division I.”
Highest in D1, folks.
And if you can find a more extreme disparity in DII or DIII, or at any level any other year, please let me know. You’ll be looking for awhile.
Fortunately, Demirel’s Twitter account travels well. Hop aboard.
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