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Message: [QUOTE="garnermike, post: 126716, member: 798"] Yup. Duke or UNC go to Chapel Hill or Durham respectively (25 minutes away) and they're "road games." And then they both seemingly go to Greensboro (1 hour) or Charlotte (3 hours) or Raleigh ( 25 minutes) in the tourney each year....with few writers mentioning the advantage. SU goes to Buffalo (2 hours) or Albany (2.5 hours) in the tourney and writers point it out as unfair. Can't win. My guess is that if some other NY school was as historically dominating as SU is in BB, some of this "road-game-rubbish" would go away. Say if the Johnnies never fell off too far from their mid- 1980's, Mullen-Berry form, or if private/Catholic Marist was like a a private/Catholic Marquette. But because SU is the only premier BB school in the Empire State, any game played in NY is somehow construed as a "home" game. [/QUOTE]