Finally, we present statistically significant results indicating referee decisions are impacted by attendance, with larger crowds resulting in greater bias in favor of the home team. We present evidence that scorekeepers tend to have greater home team biases when observing men compared to women, higher divisions compared to lower divisions, and stronger teams compared to weaker teams. Additionally, we examine the biases of scorekeepers and referees. We also estimate a regression model to quantify the home court advantages for box score statistics after controlling for other factors such as number of possessions, and team strength. The prevalence of neutral location games in the NCAA provides an additional angle through which to examine the gaps in box score statistic performance, which we believe has been underutilized in existing literature. Using box score data from over 100,000 games spanning the three divisions for both women and men, we examine the factors underlying this discrepancy. Between the 16 seasons, NCAA teams performed better at home compared to on the road in nearly all box score statistics across both genders and all three divisions. Box score statistics are the baseline measures of performance for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball.
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