Krush provides a baseline level of noise and atmosphere around the court, but the only way it’s a good atmosphere is if the other 15,000 people make it so. Any time I’ve been at a game at Assembly Hall where the atmosphere was electric, it was never because of Orange Krush. It was from looking around the arena and seeing the whole place going nuts.

The reason places like Kansas, Purdue, Indiana, Kentucky feel different is the rest of the crowd feels indistinguishable from the student section. So we can blame Krush all we want and much of it is justified, but if the atmosphere sucks it is much more on the rest of the crowd.