![]() From 2012 through 2017, teams with homecourt advantage won 27 of 34 series that reached 2-2. So over four seasons (the 2020 playoffs were in the Orlando bubble, total neutral courts), teams with homecourt advantage are 15-10 in series that reached 2-2.īefore 2018, homecourt advantage seemed to mean more. ![]() In both 20, the team with homecourt advantage won three of five series that had been tied 2-2. En route to the NBA championship, Milwaukee beat both Phoenix (Finals) and Philadelphia (East semifinals) in such a scenario. However, in 2021, teams without homecourt advantage won four of eight series that reached 2-2. Both the Celtics and Mavericks dominated those Game 7s, though Miami staged a late rally to make it quite interesting. Boston won Game 7 at Miami in the East finals, and Dallas won Game 7 at Phoenix in the West semifinals. In the 2022 playoffs, teams with homecourt advantage have won five of the seven series that have reached 2-2. Recent NBA history suggests that best-of-three series – Games 5-7 in a playoff series – don't overwhelmingly go to the home team. Had the Celtics won that game, they would have the homecourt tiebreaker and be hosting Game 5. The teams split their regular-season meetings.īack on December 17, Golden State’s Damion Lee made two foul shots with two seconds left to give the Warriors a 111-107 victory over Boston. The Warriors finished 53-29, the Celtics 51-31. Golden State has homecourt advantage courtesy of its superior regular-season record. In other words, if the Big 12 was to adopt divisions immediately, place OU and Texas in opposite divisions, then leave those divisions the same when the Sooners and Longhorns are gone. The one thing I’ve heard repeatedly is that conference officials don’t want to be changing divisions haphazardly. When OU and Texas depart, maybe then adapt divisions, if need be. Play out the schedule with 14 teams (almost surely a nine-game league slate) and see how it goes. The Big 12 could table divisions initially. I’ve talked to people all over the conference and have encountered few people taking an absolute position. That may change if it (the CFP) expands.” “The reason people are running away from divisions, they want to be in the best position to get their best teams in the championship game. “I’m open to either,” said UCF athletic director Terry Mohajir. ![]() If there is no consensus in Big 12 meetings, the league could just keep doing what it’s been doing for the last decade. The other Power 5 leagues are getting away from divisions, preferring to match the top two teams in the standings for a league championship game, to enhance College Football Playoff possibilities.īut the scrap-the-divisions movement has given the Big 12 an excellent alternative. Sources said divisional play had much momentum early, but the rabbit hole is changing things rapidly. But the current (minus OU and Texas) and future Big 12 members have discussed football format. And the Big 12’s solo act “might remain that way,” Holmoe said. “We were the only conference that didn’t have divisions,” said BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe, prematurely embracing the “we,” but he’s got my permission to do so and I assume that’s a Big 12 consensus. ![]() So what will 2023 Big 12 football look like? Who knew the beleaguered conference was a pioneer? In recent months, the Pac-12, Big Ten, SEC and Atlantic Coast conferences have either scrapped divisions or admitted they are likely to. The Big 12 has been divisionless since the 2011 season.
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