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"Home-field advantage is an oft-debated topic in the world of sports. Sure, it's somewhat helpful to have your own fans behind you. But, even if you have the loudest crowd in sports history, what's playing host really worth? \nRarely has the power of a loud and well-organized home crowd been illustrated as plainly as it is in the video above. \nSee also: 17 College Sports Fans Get Their Hearts Broken in Real Time\nUploaded to YouTube on Saturday, the clip shows two late-game possessions by Columbia University in their Friday night bid to pull off a shocking upset over host Michigan State. \nWith just three and a half minutes to play, Columbia had the ball and a chance to tie the game or take the lead. But Michigan State's home crowd threw a serious wrench in those plans by in unison chanting a countdown of a fictitious shot clock. Flustered, Columbia tracked time by the crowd's meter instead of the actual clock, not shooting in time and turning over the ball. \nThen, just a minute later, Michigan State fans did the exact same thing for the exact same result. \nIt's not the most original ploy, but very, very rarely do you see it work to such great effect in the world of big-time college basketball. Making the fans' feat all the more impressive is that they pulled it off against a supposedly high-IQ team from the Ivy League. No wonder video of the successful operation has been viewed well over 1 million times since Saturday. \nIn other distracting-crowd news, someone at North Carolina's game against Belmont on Sunday sang Miley Cyrus' hit \"Wrecking Ball\" really, really loudly while UNC's James McAdoo was at the free throw line. McAdoo missed his shot. We'll let you decide whether or not Miley had something to do with it: \n\nBONUS: 25 of YouTube's Funniest Sports Fails\n\n\n\nSports Fails\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Golf Cart Fail\n\nThis runaway vehicle wreaked minor on-field havoc following a high school football championship in Texas last December. But a heroic bystander hopped aboard and put on the brakes.\nNo casualties occurred, and the clip immediately became Internet legend.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. Penalty Kick Fail\nWatch out for the ricochet, goalie! This kid gets it in the right in the chops.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Mascot on Rollerblades Fail\nWhat happens when you put an inflatable dinosaur on rollerblades and ask it to skate down a flight of stairs? Amazingness, that's what.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Flopping Fail\nIn sports, to \"flop\" is to exaggerate the force of contact in hopes of drawing a favorable call from officials. But you've got to time it much, much better than this guy does.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Hockey Celebration Fail\nApparently, if you hug a member of the opposite team after scoring a goal in hockey, you will get punched in the face.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Innocent Bystander Fail\nThis kid is just in the wrong place at the wrong time...to the benefit of the rest of us.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Representing Your School Fail\n\nCollege football mascots are supposed to represent their schools in a fun, positive light \u2014 which doesn't typically include picking fights. Here, the University of Oregon's duck slams the University of Houston's cougar.\nBonus points for the sick elbow drop, though.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Weightlifting Fail\n\nNot saying we could successfully lift 432 pounds above our heads, but dang, that looks painful.\nGerman weightlifter Matthias Steiner dropped this massive barbell on his neck during the London Olympics this summer, but escaped serious injury.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. Trampoline Dunk Fail\nSometimes, when you fail, you actually win.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. Hurdling Fail\n\nWhy jump over hurdles when you could just RUN STRAIGHT THROUGH THEM?\nFile under: Never, Ever Gets Old.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11. Paying Attention Fail\nAfter what could best be described as an \"optimistic\" shot attempt in a game last season, NBA center JaVale McGee showed some nice hustle getting back on defense. Only problem? His team still had the ball.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12. Judgment Fail\nBut that wasn't McGee's only legendary moment. Here, he shows why it's not a good idea to try dunking from the free throw line mid-game.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13. Olympic Promo Fail\n\nFor some reason, London's Olympic promotions this summer involved hanging Mayor Boris Johnson on a zipline while waving a pair of tiny flags.\nThen he got stuck halfway through and it was pretty much the best, funniest, awkwardest thing that could have happened.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14. Grand Slam Celebration Fail\nMajor Leaguer Kendry Morales broke his lower left leg while celebrating a game-winning grand slam in 2010. This edited video provides the before, during and after rundown.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n15. Slam Dunk Fail\nSee? White guys can jump? It's just the landing that's the hard part.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n16. High Dive Fail\nThe announcer here sums it up perfectly. She calls this attempt from the 1992 Olympics \"an absolute failed dive.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n17. Piggyback Ride Fail\nWhat begins as an innocent enough piggyback ride atop a fuzzy mascot turns into a pretty epic collision \u2014 and YouTube gold.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n18. Long Jump Fail\nDude! If you're gonna pump up the crowd like that, you can't just faceplant into the sand.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n19. Touchdown Celebration Fail\nWhen you think about it, is there any better way to celebrate a touchdown than by pegging an unsuspecting spectator in the face? Bonus points for originality, at least.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n20. Pro Golfer Fail\nYou'd think a professional golfer could put the ball in the hole with less than 16 strokes. Kevin Na \u2014 and the rest of the world \u2014 found out otherwise on this par-four hole at the 2011 Valero Texas Open.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n21. Head-First Slide Fail\nWell, that's one way of doing it...right?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n22. Time Management Fail\n\nTie game, clock winding down \u2014 it's always better to get one last attempt up than just let the game go into overtime. A full court desperation heave with a 11 seconds to go is never the way to do it, however.\nThis classic gaffe by the University of Connecticut's Roscoe Smith came during a matchup of top teams in 2011.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n23. Boogie Boarding Fail\nIts veracity may be suspect, but this 2008 YouTube classic has more than 12.7 million views, despite a mind-numbing soundtrack.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n24. Sportsmanship Fail\n\nThe summer of 2011 was a tough time for NBA star LeBron James. It was full of lingering ill-will for his decision to the leave the Cleveland Cavaliers and snarky schadenfreude over his initial failure to win a championship with the Miami Heat.\nSo it makes perfect sense that he'd let off some steam by viciously dunking on a tiny kid at summer camp, right? That's what happens at the 0:43 mark of this video.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n25. Standing on a Basketball Hoop Fail\nWe're not quite sure why this mascot thought standing on top of a basketball rim was a good idea.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHomepage image: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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