Author: Chris Ford
NCAA Basketball Week 16: Nobody in South Carolina Watches Basketball
South Carolina Upstate has the smallest arena in NCAA Division I men’s basketball with a capacity of 878. But this week’s bottom three attendance doesn’t involve the Spartans of USC-U, who drew 517 and 837 to their two games this week. With those totals, South Carolina Upstate outdrew two other South Carolina schools, whose game attendances would’ve…
AMSTS NCAA College Basketball Week 16 Rankings Are Out!
Baylor plummets out of the top 10 with the loss at Texas Tech (and maybe the loss at KU a little bit). While on the bottom, local taco supporter St. Francis of Brooklyn joins the bottom five for the first time this season. Everyone else? You can view all 351 teams ranked in our AMSTS…
NCAA Basketball Week 15: Only 200 Show Up For Game Shown on ESPN3
For the second straight week, the Purdue Boilermakers have sent home the highest number of disappointed fans. With last week’s win at Maryland and this week’s at Indiana, the Boilermakers have not been a welcome sight in the Big Ten. But on the bottom of the attendance, this week also had the first sub-300 attended game…
Week 15 AMSTS NCAA Basketball Computer Rankings Are Out!
No change in the top 2, but the Pac 12 makes some big gains this week with UCLA and Arizona joining the Top 10 at Oregon’s expense. The bottom didn’t see much happen but Coppin State vaulted out of the Bottom 5 to be replaced with Howard. Everyone else? You can view all 351 teams ranked…
St. Francis, The Patron Saint of Mexican Food
St. Francis may be the patron saint of animals, the environment, merchants, and stowaways, but after last Thursday we can add Mexican food to the list. It all started with a simple idea. Take a selfie at the St. Francis (of Brooklyn) basketball game on Thursday night against St. Francis (of Pennsylvania) with a custom…
Week 14 NCAA College Basketball Attendance – First Week Over 5,000!
This was a week of the highest highs and lowest lows. For the first time this season, attendance averaged above 5,000. On the other end, one school in the bottom three offered a free snack if you came to their game… But it didn’t work so well. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing…
Week 14 AMSTS NCAA Basketball Computer Rankings Are Out!
Baylor slips two spots, while FSU, Wisconsin, and Oregon join the top 10 this week. At the bottom? Not much change, with Coppin State dropping into the bottom five. Everyone else? You can view all 351 teams ranked in our AMSTS Week 14 rankings here. The highlights this week: Division 1 Top 10: Gonzaga Villanova…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 13: Highest Attendance of the Season!
We have reached peak basketball! Your average college basketball game is attracting more than 4,900 fans, and only 33 games this week had fewer than 1,000 fans in the door. In fact, it was the first week this season to not have any games with fewer than 400 spectators. Another good week for college basketball attendance!…
Week 13 AMSTS Computer Rankings Are Out!
No changes in the top two, but Florida State is up 4 spots while Arizona jumps into the Top 10 for the first time this season, up 9 spots after beating UCLA. Bethune-Cookman inched out of the Bottom 5, dropping MVSU, Alabama State, and FAMU down a spot. Everyone else? You can view all 351…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 12: Nobody Wants To See Central Arkansas
Attendance was way up last week, with the average inching towards nearly 5,000 fans a game. On the bottom end, there were no games with fewer than 300 fans, the first time that has happened all season. Even the number of games with fewer than 1,000 fans was down from a normal range of the…
Week 12 AMSTS Computer Rankings Are Out!
No changes in the top two, but Florida State is up 4 spots while Arizona jumps into the Top 10 for the first time this season, up 9 spots after beating UCLA. Bethune-Cookman inched out of the Bottom 5, dropping MVSU, Alabama State, and FAMU down a spot. Everyone else? You can view all 351…
NCAA Week 11 Attendance: School Is Back In Session, But Some Arenas Still Drawing <5%
School is back in session and with it, attendances have increased to their non-break levels. Overall attendance was up 18% this week, with only two games played with fewer than 300 in the crowd. Even with that, two games played with fewer than 5% of seats occupied this week, our #1 game of the week…