Winning on the road during conference play is tough.
Like, really tough.
And everybody knows it. You’ve heard various sayings about that fact from color commentators, players, and coaches especially. Fred Hoiberg used to say that “boys win at home, men win on the road”, and that statement has a lot of truth to it.
Winning on the road has been the secret ingredient, the seasoning to the main course of winning all your home games, that has allowed Kansas to win 17,000 straight Big 12 regular season titles.
Road wins are always tough to come by, but road environments have been a bit kinder to Iowa State (last season excluded) lately.