"Pay heed, all who enter: Beware of the Phog."

The banner has hung in Allen Fieldhouse for years, and by every measure we have — over any window you choose — it isn't a bluff. Kansas owns the longest, loudest home-court tradition in the sport, a 16,300-seat building sold out for decades running, a program that loses at home about as often as it snows in Lawrence in July.

It leads or nears the top in every pillar we track: fill rate, mystique, home-court swing, and history, over as long a data set as you want. There's no debate at the top of this list that the model had to manufacture"!