Tag: empty arenas
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NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 17: Going Viral
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:…
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NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 16: Almost (Conference) Tournament Time
As teams drop out of conference title contention, the bottom continues to fall off, with over 50 games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans this week, bringing the season total up to 888. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 51 (Season total: 888) Here are the 3…
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NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 15: Highest Attended Week of the Year
As some conference races heat up, it’s surprising to see average attendance hit 5,000 for the first point this year. Despite that, still 45 games managed to draw three-digit crowds. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 45 (Season total: 827) Here are the 3 lowest attended…
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NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 14: Nobody’s Valentine
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:…
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NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 11:
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: 36 (Season total: 658) Here are the 3 lowest…
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NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 9: Southland Struggles
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: 63 (Season…
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NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 8: New SWAC Year, Same SWAC Problems
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…
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NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 7: Christmas Break
Only 80 games this week, with average attendance spiking over 5,500 due to a lack of games at schools with smaller venues. Unfortunately, not many funny number puns to work with this week. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 10 (Season total: 440) Here are the…
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NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 5: HBCU Blues
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…
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NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 4: Back to Campus
We’re mostly back on campus now, which should help attendance numbers. Average attendance returned back to 4,452 from 4,556 two weeks ago, prior to the Thanksgiving week neutral sites. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 50 (Season total: 317) Here are the 3 lowest attended games…
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NCAA Football 2019 Attendance, Week 15: Conference Championship Week
Week 15 saw average attendance skyrocket to 34,666 from 28,379 across all of Division I, on account of FCS Playoffs making up a larger percentage of the weekly games played. This week we still had a game under 5,000 fans. Let’s take a look at how everyone else fared, shall we? Worst overall Division I…
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NCAA Basketball 2019-20 Attendance, Week 3: Ballroom Bonanza
We’re closing in on Thanksgiving, and that means basketball in Caribbean resort’s ballrooms. Average attendance was down from 4,708 to 4,556, but we had a range of attendances from below 100 to over 22,000. Without further ado, let’s take a look: Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 77 (Season total: 184) Here are…
