Home work
Appalachian State is 2-2 in the Southern Conference – as in two good road wins and two not-so-good home losses.
So much for home-court advantage.
“Hopefully our guys will think they’re somewhere besides Boone for their game on Wednesday,” Coach Buzz Peterson of ASU said, perhaps only half-joking. “Maybe I’ll get a bus and drive them around Banner Elk and Blowing Rock and act like we’re not at home.”
It’s been an odd season for the Mountaineers.
The league wins have come at Wofford (a team that’s 2-0 against SEC competition) and Davidson (a program that has lost few games at home in recent years).
The losses, both at home, are against Furman (which was 6-24 last season) and The Citadel (which had lost 17 straight games to the Mountaineers before a breakthrough last season).
“We’ve had a few focus issues at the house,” Donald Sims of the Mountaineers said. “We’ve got to get better at that. We’ve got to protect home court if we want to be a good team in this league.”
The Mountaineers will play at home twice this week – Wednesday against Elon and Saturday against UNC Greensboro. Both opponents are 3-12.