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: …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 17: Going Viral
As teams start to eliminate themselves from conference contention, it is no surprise that we have seen a 7% decrease in attendance week over week, including a 33% increase in 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: …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 14: Nobody’s Valentine
Amidst conference play, one would expect that there would be a higher average attendance (and there is) vs non-conference play, but there were still fifty games with fewer than 1,000 fans. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 50 (Season total: 622) Here are the 3 lowest …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 10: High-lander But Low Attendance-r
Ramping back up the schedule this week with 292 games reporting attendance on the week. Yet again we had 69 games below 1,000 so be sure to make your #Nice comment. As for the rest of the games? Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 69 (Season …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 8: New SWAC Year, Same SWAC Problems
I just wanted to get this out of the way for all of us. There were 69 games with fewer than 1,000 college basketball fans last week. That brings the season number up to 420 games with fewer than 1,000 in attendance. I wish I were making that up. ANYWAY, elsewhere, average attendance dropped from …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 6: Funny Numbers
The bottom three attended games this week all came from HBCUs having trouble filling up the home arena during finals week. Elsewhere, average attendance jumped to to 4,772 from 4,452 from a week ago. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 34 (Season total: 351) Here are …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 5: HBCU Blues
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 …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 5: Sub-100 in Mississippi
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 …
Read moreNCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 3: Fifty Fans For D1 vs D1!