Tag: college basketball
NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 10: Close Games, No Crowds
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…
NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Weeks 7 & 8: New Year, New Sub-100 Crowd
The last two weeks have had schools out of session and the Christmas holiday, meaning that many games took place in neutral sites. Because of that, we’ve combined weeks seven and eight into one post. But don’t worry, we have a cameo appearance by a major trophy. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number…
NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Weeks 7 & 8: Christmas Neutral Sites
The last two weeks have had schools out of session and the Christmas holiday, meaning that many games took place in neutral sites. Because of that, we’ve combined weeks seven and eight into one post. But don’t worry, we have a cameo appearance by a major trophy. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number…
NCAA Basketball 2018-19 Attendance, Week 6: Finals Week Lull
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It’s finals week in most places, which means significantly fewer basketball games than usual. Only 134 with reported attendance figures, our lowest week of the year. Even with that, some surprising numbers on the attendance front! Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 26 (Season total: 275)…
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 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…
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.…