NEW YORK — The fact that much of the focus in the Adidas college basketball trial has centered on Adidas schools should come as no surprise.

Whether it’s due to the roaring of the crowd, reduced travel time, or shooting on familiar rims, home court advantage has always been said to play a major role in sports. There’s a reason teams in the NBA fight all season long to try and get a high seed and the home-court advantage that comes with it. But how much does a team playing at home matter in Europe? As the EuroLeague 2018-19 season gets geared up to start later this week, I thought it might be fun to take a look back at the 2017-18 season to see which teams performed most differently at home vs on the road.

It was a lopsided week overall, with six of the eight games decided by double-digits. Sergio Llull and the defending champs Real Madrid dropped 109 on Darussafaka, while fellow title contenders CSKA, Fenerbahce, and Olympiacos rolled to 20-plus point wins.

NEW YORK — I've been embedded in the Adidas college basketball bribery trial — aka "U.S. vs. Gatto" — for the last two weeks, covering the proceedings for a number of newspapers and outlets nationwide.

After months and months of pretending that we care about baseball and football and soccer, we no longer have to pretend: The NBA is here. (As well as the EuroLeague, by the way, and we mean literally right here on FloHoops.)

With the EuroLeague season tipping off this Thursday, it’s time to bust out the crystal ball.

Duh. 

A few weeks ago, we took a look at how well EuroLeague stats translated to the NBA, finding there to be a surprisingly strong relationship between success in the EuroLeague and success in the NBA across a player’s first two seasons. This was particularly the case with stats like three-point shooting, field goal percentage, rebounding, and block rates. Today, we will take a look at those prospects’ NCAA counterparts to compare how well stats in college translate to success in the NBA. 

Take one look at the recruiting rankings for the class of 2019 and you might be a little surprised.

FORT COLLINS, CO – Today, Triple Crown Sports announced a partnership with FloSports, the innovator in live digital sports and original content, to provide live and on-demand coverage of multiple TCS events in youth fastpitch and college softball on FloSoftball.com, as well as men’s and women’s college basketball on FloHoops.com.