Noise...

[SB Shock]

No crowd is going to do great for 40 minutes, and especially the way the team played the first thirty minutes.

I don't think you want a crowd "loud" for 40 minutes - then it becomes just "noise" and can become a detriment to your team (noise for extended period of time causes fatigue).

IMO, you want the crowd to give your team energy at time (critical times usually) and to reinforce psychologically to the other team that they are failing. I think WSU crowd did that and does that.

Could it be better? I think so. If I had my wish, I would have the crowd standing for defense coming out of every TV timeout.

[Fredster]

From the Terre Haute newspaper: WSU scored on 18 of it's last 22 possessions, fueled by the crowd volume ISU has not heard this season. Reed admitted the crowd played a factor in WSU's surge.

"It was very loud. At times you couldn't hear anything. We knew what we were running, but if we didn't have a hand signal, we didn't know what was going on."

That's cool. I believe Marshall was revving up the crowd, not acknowledging it. I like the idea of standing for defense after every time out. Good thought!

[moshock]

The crowd noise (the last 8 minutes) was like gasoline being poured on the fire that the players started.

The noise at John Q's mortuary here in SGF at it's loudest is not comparable to CKA. That comeback was awesome and it kept building with the crowd noise.

Our guys all grew some hair on their chest this weekend.

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