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 even get to the Sweet 16. Well, I did the work so you didn’t have to. Using some base assumptions, I plugged in the numbers to see who, exactly, has the longest way still to go.  The answer may surprise you. Assumptions: During the NCAA […]

The Long Road to the 2019 Final Four: How Far ...

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It’s the last week of the regular season for many major conferences, but many of the low and mid major conference tournaments have begun. Ultimately this led to a lot fewer low attendance games than normal, which brought the average crowd over 5,000 for the first time this season. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 1 (Season total: 749) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: Northern Illinois vs Ohio – Hosted by NIU, a longtime fan of AMSTS, in the first round of the MAC tournament, only 1070 […]

NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 19: The End of the ...

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It’s the last week of the regular season for many major conferences, but many of the low and mid major conference tournaments have begun. Ultimately this led to a lot fewer low attendance games than normal, which brought the average crowd over 5,000 for the first time this season. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 21 (Season total: 748) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: Sacred Heart vs LIU-Brooklyn – A mid-week game with the four seed in the NEC tournament on the line managed to only draw […]

NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 18: Mid-Major Conference Tournament Time!

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It’s almost tournament time, and a big part of who can advance in the tournament is based off of how well the team is playing as we head into March. With the help of MODERN TECHNOLOGY, we’ve blown up the AMSTS Computer Rankings to dissect exactly which teams have momentum going into the big dance, and which ones should be avoided. First things first, let’s look at how everything tends to center out over the course of the season. Largely because of conference play being a snake eating its own tail, when we aggregate each conference’s ratings over the course […]

Momentum and Consistency Heading into the NCAA Tournament

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As the regular season draws to a close, many teams still find themselves in the thick of competing for a bye in a conference tournament. And plenty of other teams… don’t. Many of those teams that don’t have much to play for had some trouble drawing fans this week. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 43 (Season total: 727) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: Central Arkansas vs Stephen F. Austin – Plenty of Southland in the bottom three this week, with UCA and SFA fighting for the […]

NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 17: Conference Tournament Seeding Time

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With the record cold temperatures last week, it’s no surprise that the number of games with fewer than 1000 fans was up nearly 50% week-over-week. As we get closer to the end of the season, head to head matchups become less relevant at times, leading to even fewer fans in attendance. This is the first week of that decline Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 27 (Season total: 684) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: Loyola-Maryland vs Navy – Not to be confused with the Ramblers of Chicago, […]

NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 16: The Bottom of the ...

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With the record cold temperatures last week, it’s no surprise that the number of games with fewer than 1000 fans was up nearly 50% week-over-week. As we get closer to the end of the season, head to head matchups become less relevant at times, leading to even fewer fans in attendance. This is the first week of that decline Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 35 (Season total: 657) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: Chicago State vs Cal State-Bakersfield – Some WACtion makes the bottom three this […]

NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 15: MAACtion At Last!

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With the record cold temperatures last week, it’s no surprise that the number of games with fewer than 1000 fans was up nearly 50% week-over-week. As we get closer to the end of the season, head to head matchups become less relevant at times, leading to even fewer fans in attendance. This is the first week of that decline Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 35 (Season total: 622) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: Boston University vs Lafayette – Only 459 in the crowd at the Case […]

NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 14: Over 600 Games Below ...

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With the record cold temperatures last week, it’s no surprise that the number of games with fewer than 1000 fans was up nearly 50% week-over-week. As we get closer to the end of the season, head to head matchups become less relevant at times, leading to even fewer fans in attendance. This is the first week of that decline Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 44 (Season total: 587) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: Colgate vs Army – Only 302 in the crowd to see the Raiders […]

NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 13: From Northeast to Southwest, ...

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In case there is any doubt that losing detracts fans, let me introduce you to Coppin State. Ranked 347th in the AMSTS Computer Rankings, it’s hard to find a reason to get fans to show up. The PAC 12 has similar problems…. even with winners. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 29 (Season total: 543) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: Colgate vs Lafayette – Only 417 in the crowd to see the Raiders hosting the Leopards in a rare appearance for the Patriot League in the bottom […]

NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 12: Coppin Goes Back to ...

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MLK Weekend and every team in the nation (except 53) decided to be a part of a game on Saturday, the busiest NCAA Basketball day of the season with 150 games on the docket. Despite that, only a handful on Monday during the day. But let’s look at last week, where we crossed the 500 mark of count of games with fewer than 1,000 in attendance. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 46 (Season total: 514) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: UMass-Lowell vs Albany – Only 411 […]

NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 11: Busiest Game Day of ...

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School is back in session, and conference play has begun. Teams no longer have an excuse, but that doesn’t mean that we won’t see low attendance for a while. Our bottom three attended games this week all fell below 350 fans, despite all three of them being extremely competitive. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 59 (Season total: 468) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: New Hampshire vs UMass-Lowell – Only 340 in the crowd to see the Wildcats host the Riverhawks in New Hampshire, but they were […]

NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 10: Close Games, No Crowds

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