Hoiberg might finally have a squad this year if they can just play around .500 ball on the road.
It's pretty tough to play .500 in BT on the road for anybody in any year. They don't make it easy.
I think the league average overall winning percentage over the years is like 33% for visiting teams. Crowds are tough, refs always allow too much physical play in league. Not shooting on your rims.
Worth 3-4 points easy, or more if you lose your shit for just a few minutes.
So in a very good year this year we might go 9-1 at home and 4-6 on road for 13 wins. 14 if we go 5-5. We only have a couple home games that could be trouble. One this week, and Purdue.
If we could hit 13 we will have solid 4 seed, or even 3 seed depending on the quality of wins.
A long way to go, but we are playing at high enough level on offense now to have pretty nice year.