Tag: college basketball
NCAA Basketball Attendance: 2017 Week Five:
A continued Let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 41 (Season total: 301) Here are the 3 lowest attended games of last week: South Carolina State vs Charleston Southern – Despite the in-state matchup, South Carolina State was only able to draw 154 fans for its tilt against Charleston Southern. This…
NCAA Basketball Attendance, 2017 Week 5: D-3 Disasters and NAIA Nightmares
Filling up the out of conference schedule proves itself to be a challenge for the lower levels of Division 1 basketball teams. With a desire to host a few out of conference games, many schools turn to lower level teams to fill the seats. Unfortunately, for our teams this week, that strategy didn’t pay off.…
NCAA Basketball Attendance: 2017 Season Week 3: A Sub-100 Game
Another week of off-campus tournaments, with Thanksgiving keeping people off campus and ADs wanting to avoid appearing on the AMSTS Bottom Three have scheduled themselves on the Caribbean Island of their choice to compete in an Island classic. Unfortunately for some, there are only so many islands that can attract fans over Thanksgiving, and other…
NCAA Basketball Attendance: 2017 Weeks One & Two: Out of Campus, Out of Mind
The college basketball season has begun, and with it the influx of “prestigious” early season tournaments. As a result of this, we saw 89 games this week with fewer than 1,000 fans reported. And that’s just the number that’s reported. Butts-in-seats numbers were probably much less! Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 89…
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…
The Road To The Championship: How Far Each 2017 NCAA Basketball Tournament Team Has To Travel
It’s NCAA Tournament time, and while many of us are focused on the bracket, there’s a hidden behind-the-scenes major logistics operation going on as the NCAA charters basketball teams all around the country to partake in the big dance. Before we get into the winners and losers, let me explain my methodology, because every…
The 2017 NCAA Tournament’s First Round Bracket Breakdown, According to Our Computers
Ride that Wichita State seeding. Ride it hard. Both the Win and Points Rating agree that Wichita State is the easy favorite going into their matchup with Dayton, and could certainly shock Kentucky in the second round. Here are some quick hits on what the computers think about upsets going into the tournament, as well…
Pre-Tournament AMSTS NCAA Basketball Rankings Are Out!
Not much shifting at the top end, with UK and UCLA switching spots, and Arizona up 2, while Duke climbs 6 to rejoin the Top 10. The bottom five had even less movement with nobody changing. Everyone else? You can view all 351 teams ranked in our AMSTS Week 19 rankings here. The highlights this week: Division…
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…
AMSTS NCAA College Basketball Week 17 Rankings Are Out!
Not much shifting at the top end, but Louisville and Duke dropped after losses this week. On the bottom end, a shuffling puts NC A&T at the very bottom, dethroning Alabama A&M who had owned the bottom spot for a while. Central Michigan continued their slide, appearing in the biggest losers for he third straight…
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…
AMSTS NCAA College Basketball Week 16 Rankings Are Out!
Baylor plummets out of the top 10 with the loss at Texas Tech (and maybe the loss at KU a little bit). While on the bottom, local taco supporter St. Francis of Brooklyn joins the bottom five for the first time this season. Everyone else? You can view all 351 teams ranked in our AMSTS…