Tag: attendance
NCAA Basketball Conference Tournament Attendance: Fun Belt? MACtion? No Thanks
Conference tournament time! Full arenas? Not so much. Turns out, two conference tournament games couldn’t even get 1,000 folks to show up. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 2 (Season total: 675) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: 3. Lamar vs SE Louisiana – In the first round…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 18: No Love For Pac 12 Rivalries
The Patriot League isn’t known for its arenas full of crazy fans, and for good reason. Last week, four of the five lowest attended games in all of Division 1 took place on Patriot League courts. Things weren’t too rosy in major conferences either though, with the most surprising attendance figure coming out of the…
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…
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 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…
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!…
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…
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…
Week 10 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Team Requests Nobody Attend, Still Outdraws 2 Others
Bad weather across parts of the country led to reduced attendance this week, which was particularly evident in that the number of games with fewer than 1,000 fans shot up to 76, nearly double the normal number for the week. With the bad weather, we saw a school request that it’s fans NOT attend the…
Week 9 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Sacred Heart Draws Sub-300 Twice
Sacred Heart is the focal point this week as they drew fewer than 550 fans over two games this week, surprisingly low as the Pioneers had drawn over 500 for most of the season thus far. The other story this week is the continued issues that HBCUs face in getting butts in seats, with two…
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 8: HBCU Blues
HBCUs seem to be having a tough time drawing a crowd this year. After last week’s Howard fiasco, this week’s leader is Alcorn State with only 124 in attendance. Also, another hoops “classic” that didn’t seem to bring many fans in the door. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 35 (Season total:…
Week 7 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Howard Draws Under 500 For The Full Week
Not to be outdone by Southern, who drew fewer than 500 fans in two home games last week, the story of this week is Howard U. The Bison hosted THREE games this week and had exactly 500 fans in attendance. At least that’s what they reported….. Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer…