Category: College Basketball
NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 5: Sub-100 in Mississippi
With the neutral sites behind us, attendance was up almost 40% as teams returned to campus. Traditionally these few weeks signify a bit of a dead cat bounce in NCAA Basketball Attendance before the plummet after final exams in mid-December. That said, with our lowest attended game still over 300 fans, this week was nothing…
NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 4: Back on Campus
With the neutral sites behind us, attendance was up almost 40% as teams returned to campus. Traditionally these few weeks signify a bit of a dead cat bounce in NCAA Basketball Attendance before the plummet after final exams in mid-December. That said, with our lowest attended game still over 300 fans, this week was nothing…
NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 3: Fifty Fans For D1 vs D1!
Thanksgiving week was upon us, and it was the second week of neutral site tournaments. After a mild first week, the Thanksgiving week neutral site games blew everything out of the water, including the second lowest attended NCAA Basketball game we’ve ever had since we started tracking attendance in 2014, and the lowest attended game…
Let’s Replace College Basketball Early Season Tournaments With Nickname Battles One Year
With the way NCAA rules are written, teams are allowed to play an additional three extra games in the case of a so-called “Exempt tournament”. As a result of this, the Maui Invitational and Great Alaska Shootout have since exploded into dozens of tournaments with almost every Division I team participating. Ultimately, the bigger name…
NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 2:
The second week of college basketball brings with it plenty of neutral site tournaments, many of the lower ones played on random campuses sprinkled throughout the nation. That’s one of the reasons we saw so many games below 500 in attendance, so let’s get into it right now: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000…
NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 1: The Journey Begins!
College basketball is back, and with it we bring you our weekly update on attendance. As in most years, the first week of the season does fairly well, with all 353 Division I teams holding on to their dreams of winning (or maybe just making) the NCAA Tournament. Let’s begin our journey through NCAA Basketball’s…
NCAA Basketball Attendance: 2017-2018 Season in Review!
For every week this year, we reviewed the lowest attendance throughout college basketball. Ultimately, we set a new record for lowest attended college basketball game ever, while a game that was closed to the public managed to still outdraw a dozen games this season. This year, the average D-I college basketball game was attended by…
The Long Road to the 2018 Final Four: How Far Will Each NCAA Tournament Team Have to Travel?
We’ve heard it before: The Road to the Final Four is long and painful. But exactly how long is it? For some of the teams, it seems like they always get opening round games right down the road. For the rest of us, it seems like our team has to cross nine time zones to…
NCAA Basketball Attendance, Conference Championship Week: Still Three Below 1000!
Conference tournaments wrapped up this week, and with it our weekly column comes to a wrap. Next week we’ll have a review of the full season, but there was still some great #content this week. Despite many of the smaller conferences, including AMSTS’ arch-enemy Conference USA not reporting attendance, some of the lower attended games…
NCAA 2018 Tournament Bracket: How To Use the AMSTS Computer Rankings To Win
The final AMSTS Computer Rankings are out and with them, all the help you need for your bracket. Why pick the AMSTS Computer Rankings? They’re computer rankings, so there’s no inherent bias for or against a team. If a matchup is favorable, it will not hold a personal grudge against one of the teams.…
2018 NCAA Tournament: Which Teams Are Going to Upset and Which Will Choke?
It’s the best time of the year, and lucky for you, you’ve stumbled upon one of the best sources NCAA Basketball information for 2018 March Madness. With a consistent appearance in the Massey Ratings’ Top 5, AMSTS’ computer metrics are second-to-none. Anyway, you’re here for bracket advice. So let’s go with a rundown of teams…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 17: A Game Behind Closed Doors
Conference tournaments have begun (or in the case of a few, finished) and with it, attendance up to its highest level on the year. We won’t let that stop us from having a bottom three, so let’s get right to it: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 22 (Season total: 724) Here are…