NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 17: Going Viral

Conference tournaments have started for some mid-majors and that has led to attendance being up over 400 people versus last week. I guess you could say college basketball is… going viral. With apologies to the Coronavirus, and without further ado, let’s take a look:

Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 28 (Season total: 916)

Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week:

3. Incarnate Word vs Houston Baptist – Only 343 in attendance, which is not a good showing for the Cardinals, but not uncommon this season. Adding insult to injury, UIW lost to the Huskies by a score of 88-76. An action shot:

2. Army vs Lafayette – Army not a frequent visitor to the bottom three, even more rare when you factor in that both Army and Lafayette are at the top half of the Patriot League standings. Either way, only 334 showed up to Christl Arena as the Black Knights were outgunned by the Leopards 73-68. Your action shot:

1. Alcorn State vs Texas Southern – The Braves are here once again, there’s only so much you can say. 265 showed up to see Alcorn State take home a 90-75 victory over the 3rd place in the SWAC Tigers of Texas Southern Your action shot:

So now, what happened to everyone else? Let’s go ahead with the miscellany:

Smallest group of people to see a win at home this week):  Alcorn State (vs Texas Southern) 265.

Biggest group of people to see a loss at home this week: Tennessee (vs Auburn) 21,156.

Smallest Power 5 Conference attendance: Oregon State (vs Stanford), 3,718.

Average attendance this week: 5,190 (up 463 vs prior week)

And as always, your full attendance numbers for the week: