Tag: college basketball
NCAA Basketball Attendance Week 11: Highs and Lows of the week!
The semester is now in full swing across the nation, giving tons of fans of [INSERT YOUR SCHOOL HERE] no excuses as to why they drew so poorly. Despite what fans of [INSERT YOUR SCHOOL HERE] think, I have nothing against the fine people of [INSERT YOUR SCHOOL HERE]. Anyway, let’s take a look at the…
Week 10 NCAA Basketball Attendance, the Highs and Lows
We’re back into the swing of things with most colleges having started their spring semester, which seems to have helped most teams out of the nadir of the year. This week saw marked improvement over last with quite a few games with fewer than 1,000 fans: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 39 The…
NCAA Basketball Attendance, Week 9 Highs and Lowest
The doldrums just keep coming folks, as the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day had a new record (since we’ve been tracking this) number of games with fewer than 1,000 fans: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 55 But it gets even better. There were two games this week which established a new…
Week 8 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Highs and Lows
Christmas break: time for neutral sites, which help inflate the attendance numbers a bit. But for those schools that aren’t major enough to play in a neutral site rivalry type game, it is hard to draw a crowd. This is reflected in the poor attendance numbers at the bottom of the pile this week. Number…
NCAA Basketball Attendance highs and lows, Week 7
It’s Finals season and winter break in the college world, so this is always one of the worst attendance weeks of the year. This year is no different, with a season record for most games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans. Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 46 The lowest 3 attended games? 3. Bethune-Cookman…
NCAA Basketball attendance highs and lows: Week 6
We’ve moved into basketball season, and the funky competitions have been put to rest. From here on out, most teams are playing at home, or in a relatively large neutral site (see: Crossroads Classic). So let’s take a look at last week’s attendance in NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball, shall we? As always, numbers are…
A look at the lowest attended NCAA Basketball games this year
Early season NCAA Basketball is strange. You have tournaments with some of the biggest names in the game playing in 3,000 seat gyms that normally host high school basketball, while others play in NBA arenas that are 4-5x the size of their home court. Anyway, the highlight for November basketball is that it usually has…